Review August Rush Film (2007)

August Rush

          August rush is one of drama film that tell us about a boy named Evan Taylor who lives in boys dormitory and bad senior that always bullying him. He do love music so much. He believes that he has parent and her parent still search him until now. But its like a joke for senior around him and laugh at with what evan believe.  One day there is one of children service come to the dorm and start interview the occupant of the dorm one by one. When evan in his turn and he asks the man named jeffries not to sent him away from this dorm because he believes that his parents still alive.

            His mother named Lyla Novacek was a cellist is a huge orchestra who has strict rule with her dad. His daughter. And his father named Louis Conelly was a vocalist in a Irish rock band of “The Conelly Brothers”. They meet in one of rooftop of a building unconsiously. And they slept together until morning come. Lyla very surprise because they had to go an orchestra concert and afraid of her dad that will being angry with her. And Louis made Lyla promise to meet in the Arch but it canceled because Lyla’s dad is not allowed her to go anywhere. And after that they did’t meet each other and continue their life.

            A month later Lyla had pregnant and her dad hate it and they fight until Lyla got car accident. Her dad lie at her that her baby was dead and secretly her dad sent her baby up to the adoption. She became very desperate and long depression and decided to quit to play cellist in orchestra and she became teacher in one of school music in Chicago. Meanwhile Louis decided to quit being vocalist in his band.

            Louis now lives in San Francisco, having left his band on the same night as Lyla's accident. He has a chance meeting with one of his former bandmates, and is invited to his birthday party. Louis is hesitant because he has not spoken to his brother Marshall since the band broke up, but he ultimately chooses to go. At the party, his brother is playing clips of the band performing. Louis confronts his brother and the words come to blows, and Louis's girlfriend named Jennifer and get angry because she never know and Louis never tell him that he is a vocalist of rock band music then she leave louis.

Lyla through the day with loneliness, No boy, No children. Her friend and roommate encourages her to rejoin the New York Philharmonic, but Lyla is unconvinced. One day she is called to her father's deathbed, and he admits to her that her child survived the accident and is alive somewhere in New York. Upon hearing this, Lyla abandons her father to his fate and decides to return to New York.

            Evan runaway goes to New York and lost his card that given by jeffries in dorm before. And he become homeless before he meet arthur who perform in Washington square park. Evan live with athur now in a bulding that condemned theater before, and has been taken in by Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace), a vagrant musician who teaches homeless children music and employs them as street performers. He was the one playing the guitar and harmonica during Louis and Lyla's night on the rooftop. Evan tries playing Wizard's prize guitar "Roxanne", and while his initial approach is unconventional, he is so good that Wizard gives him his old spot in, and Roxanne, both of which had until then been Arthur's. Wizard also gives Evan the stage name "August Rush" and begins trying to market him to clubs and event promoters. Seeing the posters that Jeffries has posted for the runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan and his gift for his own gain. Arthur comes to resent being replaced by August as Wizard's favorite.

            Louis decides to reconnect with Lyla, and after learning her full name by search in internet and suddenly without planning he flies out to Chicago to find her. He waits for several hours at the door to her apartment. When he asks one of the occupants of her apartment where Lyla is, the woman mixes up Lyla and her roommate, and says she's on her honeymoon in New York. Louis, crushed, ends up in New York and decides get his old band back together.

After a meeting on the street between Jeffries, Wizard and Arthur, the derelict theatre Wizard and his "children" are living in is raided by the police. Wizard distracts them and allows August to escape, with a warning not to tell anyone his real name. After evading the police, Evan takes refuge in an inner-city church where Hope, a young girl at the church introduces him to the piano, and to written notes. He picks up this skill so quickly that Hope, seeing her room covered in August's handwritten music and hearing him play the church's pipe organ, gets the attention of the parish pastor who enrolls August at the Juilliard School. August's nonconformist approach to the curriculum nevertheless impresses the Juilliard staff, and a rhapsody begins to take shape from his notes and homework assignments.

Once in New York, Lyla stand in front of the building and meets Jeffries' office for information and try to ask the position of her son to customer service but the clerk don’t want to service her because that is the time the office close and eventually meets with Jeffries, who is able to identify Evan as her son. She decides to stay in New York to search for him, renting a studio apartment in the city. She also decides to take up the cello again, and accepts the offer she would been given to perform with the Philharmonic at a series of concerts in Central Park.

August's gift is considered astounding among all at Juilliard, and he is selected to perform the rhapsody he's been composing at the same park concert as Lyla, the youngest student ever selected for this honor. Wizard intrudes during a rehearsal and, claiming to be his father and under threat of revealing August's real name, pulls August out of the school, putting him back in Washington Square playing Roxanne and planning to send him all over the country.

In the day when finally Loius will perform the first performance atfter he he quit his old band and meanwhile Lyla will perform in symphony concert that same with August Rhasody by Evan Taylor. In the other hand Evan still forbiden to perform and attend  his own concert in Washington square. Unconsiously August meets Louis, who is wandering through the park with his own guitar, and then they play together, neither of them knowing their blood relationship to the other. August tells him of his dilemma about the concert and Louis tells him not to give up on his music, and that if he had a concert, he wouldn't miss it for the world. In the time when the concert is held, In a subway station that night, August decides to leave Wizard and go to his concert anyway, with some help from Arthur who also rebels against Wizard. August flees through the subway tunnel and towards the park where the concert is underway, following the sounds of Lyla's cello concerto performance. Wizard is last seen playing his harmonica alone in the subway.

Louis is looking outside when they are in car heading towards the airport when he notices Lyla's name on a banner for the concert. He jumps out of the van and heads towards the park. Meanwhile, Jeffries notices a misplaced faximile for August Rush, sent to Jeffries' office after August had been removed from Juilliard, identifies August as Evan, and heads for the concert as well. August arrives just in time to conduct his rhapsody, with Hope on stage singing and Arthur in the crowd watching August's performance. Lyla, having finished her part of the concert, begins walking away from the park, but is attracted back towards August's performance. Louis also arrives at the park and stare at Lyla, reuniting with her at the front of the crowd. Jeffries arrives backstage during the performance and looks on as well. August finishes his rhapsody and, turning around, smiles at Lyla and Louis, realizing that they are his parents.