Released in the United States in 2007, August Mystery is a musical drama film about love and music.
The film takes Evan, an 11-year-old orphanage-grown boy, who has a high sensitivity to sound and a firm belief that his parents will come back to him. One night, Evan leaves the orphanage and gets lost, he is attracted by the noise of the city and loses the phone number of the person who can take him back to the orphanage. He is attracted on the street by the sound of a black kid selling guitar, and when the two interact, Evan follows Black to his house. His home was a shabby place with many art-selling children, and their head was also a decadent old man who loved music. He was not taken seriously at first, but the next day he couldn't help but sneak into the old man's room and play an impromptu piece of music with the strings of his guitar, and everyone here was shocked by him!
Later, he was chased away by the police. Evan was drawn to the sound of music to the church, where the choir was rehearsing. Evan met a little girl in the choir who taught him to read music. As a result, he wrote the score and played it to shock the godfather of the choir. The Godfather took him to the Conservatory. Evan also showed amazing talent at the Conservatory of Music, writing Fantasia in C tones after six months of study and was recommended by the school to play asianally at a music festival. In rehearsal, the old man found him and took him away. He hoped that this talented boy would be his money-making tool. Evan is selling art on the street again, and he is encouraged by a middle-aged man who hears him sell art: music can give you strength, can help you in your most difficult times, and it is impossible to give up music no matter what.
Evan eventually escaped, and he rushed back to the festival and took the stage at the last minute. The music eventually attracted her mom and dad, and finally they smiled in the ocean of music, and the family reunited. There are not many contradictions and conflicts in the story, and the whole text is run through with music, although it is also about the ending of the reunion, but the superb interpretation of the little boy is very brilliant. When we see the little boy thinking of his parents, he firmly believes that the concert will guide him to find his parents, and it is still touching to finally find them. The world believes in the beauty of music, the power of music, doesn't it?
Of course, in fact, a lot of the logic of the movie can not be carefully scrutinized, because we all know that there are too many bad people in reality, so many links, what will the ending of an accidental story look like? In this movie, there are no bad guys in the strict sense, and the whole film is told in a nostalgic and warm way, which is very comfortable to watch. And the voice acting of the whole film is very beautiful, and it also won the Oscar award in music that year.