It is all but impossible to imagine what survivors of natural disasters must have gone through to make it out alive. That’s not what the title of “The Impossible” refers to — it’s that act of making it to safety. But the filmmakers might have done better to consider that other impossibility.

It might seem a noble project, aiming to show the rest of the world what hell some endured. But even a dramatic film can only suggest part of the experience. And I fear “The Impossible” might serve only to trivialize that experience.