This is a film about a child who experiences music in everything around him. He uses this ability to hear the music around him to help him find his parents. He is an orphan and never has met his parents, but he holds firm to the belief that the music will lead him to his parents. He leaves his orphanage in search of his parents and through the movie develops his musical abilities into something more tangible than a general sense.
I would use this film to encourage students to seek out the music that exists in the world around them. In nature, and in inhabited places, sound is produced in patterns that could be heard as music. I would challenge the students to hear the music around them and to be interested in what I call the music of life.
Sheridan, Kristen, Dir. August Rush. Perf. Highmore, Freddie. Warner Bros.: 2007, Film.
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