The movie is about a girl called Bethany. She lives in Hawaii with her family; they’re all surfers. Bethany and her best friend, Alana, are always involved in competitions, doing what they love (surfing). One day Bethany had an accident which changes her life forever. Although Bethany is just a teenager there are things that we can admire about her like her passion, courage, and solidarity.
Bethany has grown up in a family of surfers, so she had always felt a great passion for that sport. Because of that passion, she and Alana have been part of many competitions. In every contest they do their best, so most of the times they won the first places. One day Alana and Bethany sneak off with some friends to go surfing, including Alana’s father Holt and brother Byron. As Bethany dangles her left arm in the water, a shark bit it off near the shoulder. Thanks to the tourniquet that Holt did in her arm and his quick thinking and decisive action, her life was saved.
After the accident, she thought she will never be able to surf again; she lost all her faith. But the support of her fans, family, and close people around her made her change her mind and do the best to be back to the sport the she loves. Her family always encouraged her to persevere. After the recovery period, Bethany decided to get back in the water so she tried so hard to learn how to surf with one arm. Then, she reentered to a completion but she didn’t perform well because she couldn´t stay on board long enough to go out and catch a competitive wave, so she didn´t win. She felt so bad that she decided to give up with competitive surfing but I think that she had the courage because at least she tried.
One day while she was watching T.V she saw this news, where they presented a disaster in Thailand, an Earthquake and Tsunami. When she saw that she decided to joined a group of young people with a mission to help people in that country.That represents the solidarity that she had trying to help people with bigger problems than the one she had. Once she was there she met a boy who was afraid of water. One day she went into the water to encourage the boy to do the same and forget about his fear. When all her friends saw her they supported her, so she felt inspired and decided to returned to practice surfing.
At the end of the movie she signed in for the national championship of surf where she almost won. She did an amazing performance that even she lost everyone felt inspired by her. In an interview she said that losing her arm was an experience that made her understand a lot of things of life. For Bethany the fact that she lost her arm gave her the opportunity to embrace more people in life and she used it as a teaching. For me it’s so amazing how that people never give up, don’t matter what they always fight until the end.
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