You know what music is? Harmonic connection between all living beings.- The Wizard, August Rush.

Ok, I know what you’re thinking.. Another chick flick love story, sappy drama… a tear jerker. This is a film that seems to be a waste of time to spend the few bucks to see. Especially, if you judge your movie selections from rottentomatoes.com. Its reviews seem to be horrible. But here is a good review, from a different point of view.
Brief synopsis: In Brooklyn, NY, guy meets girl, they get it on, next day they are separated. This film uses an old technique such as parallel story lines that are bound to cross together. Within the storylines, we meet the guy, an Englishman, a musician in a rock band, and we meet the girl, comes from a rich sophisticated family, plays the viola, musician as well. Then we meet the kid, an orphan, bound to one day meet his parents. Yes, it is boring, ordinary love story Oliver Twist-like, fairytale presentation of a drama. However, what saves this film, is the idea behind music, melody and rhythm. It is touchy; it is powerful and all together synchronized in a soft balance between excellent editing, cinematography and melody.
Now if you saw “Ray”, the story about Ray Charles. His music, his confidence made you believe in him, A blind man that found solace in music, and made it his life, it was powerful, it was brilliant.
This story is about a kid who is driven by everything that he hears. Who finds harmony and peace in everyday sounds, such as footsteps and cars, leafs dropping on the ground, and basketball shoots. In order to respect this film, one must have an appreciation for music.

Flawed, yet, does what I, as a musician, find difficult to do. It conveys in words and pictures that wonderful feeling of being caught in a much grander current of rhythm and melody. = quoted from Rottentomatoes.Com

I think the world today has forgotten, what it really means to listen. Our eardrums have been drowned in everyday bullshit of wars, laws, money, politics and their backstabbing, cunning existence, that has made us deaf.
August Rush is a movie that shows music veering through the only innocence that still dwells within our worlds, a child with an uncorrupt soul, and damn strong heart for the passion of music. This child represents a prodigy, a musical genius such as Mozart. His bravery and desire to show to the world what he hears gets him to what he ultimately wants in this film, to reunite with his family, but in the greater design of schemes, is to remind us to step away from our desperate dullness from the corrupt world we live in and just listen.

The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen… -Evan Taylor, August Rush.

To the filmmakers of this film, Mark Mencina, (original music), John Mathieson (cinematography), and William Steinkamp (editing), I appreciate the high dosage of music infusion between classical and rock, modern rock and modern symphonic music, excellently presented with strong close-ups drastic cuts and all together dancing frames. Such fine blend makes this film be worth seeing, and worth a while.
Directed by, Kirsten Sheridan, and starring Keri Russell(Felicity, TVShow, 1998) as Lyla Novachek , Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Luis Conelly, Evan Taylor-August Rush played by Freddie HighMoore, and Robin Williams as Maxwell “Wizard” Wallace.