127 Hours
Like any movie reviewer would do, they would tell the reader bout the movies, so this is it, i'm trying.
The movie 127 hours was based on a true story from the life of Aron Ralston (My name is kinda similar to him, except i got more A) who lost his arm due to a rock climbing accident, in this movie, Aron Ralston is portrayed by James Franco as the movie is directed by Danny Boyle who also Directed the Academy Award Winning Movie Slumdog Millionaire. The film was based on Aron Ralston biography which is entitled Between A Rock And A Hard Place.
Okay, let's get it on.
So the movie starts kinda strange, it was a random clip of people going really fast, it was actually being fast forward. The story begins when Aron was getting all his equipment for Rock Climbing, filling his bottle from the tap water, and trying to reach his Swiss Army Knives but he can't which eventually he jokes about don't buy stuff that are made in China. Before the event occur, Aron was walking around the rocks and find 2 lost women which he later convinced them that he's a good guide and decide to follow him although with some hesitation, so they arrived at the place which is called Blue John? so they were in the middle, between the rocks against their body and their hands to support them, then suddenly Aron just drops down and at the bottom was actually a Lake, the water was so blue, kinda looks clean, so they took a bath.
After that, Aron went on to his adventures, walking around the rocks, then he stumbles upon a rock which he stands on to see if it could support his weight, seems okay, but then disaster strikes, the rock had befallen onto his hand, leaving him stuck in the bottom of the rocks. He struggles to get rid of the rock from his hand, pushing it against his shoulder, trying to chip the rock bit by bit with his made-in-china swiss army knife. And the story basically starts from there, where he struggles to get out and finally just rest there, there's actually a lot of elements in the story, mostly about his past, his family, his sister, his old girlfriend, and other times he was hallucinating, but at most time, he was documenting being stuck with a rock, and also trying to get rid of the rock with lots of way using his ropes, but still he fails.
Maybe one of the things in the movie that's a little bit interesting is how he tries to survive from his bottle of water, he tries to drink as little as he can by savoring the water in his mouth instead of swallowing it directly, but after his water ran out, he kinda have to use an alternative for water, in other words, his bodily fluids, by that i mean Pee, yeah, he drank his own pee, which is hard to watch, they even made it graphic, the pee would rise to the straw as he suck it.
But shockingly, there was a rainstorm suddenly, which kinda turns into a flood and leaving him a little bit breathless for air but plenty for water as he is dehydrated, as the rain starts dropping he opened his mouth and his bottle trying to catch water, and it kinda seems like he got away with the flood helping him to get loose on the rock and finally going back to his girlfriend, but that was again, a hallucination, so he's stuck back in the rock with no water.
The tipping point of the story was when he's cutting his arm off to be free, at first, his hand was just broke, and he breaks it even more, and getting his knife to cut it, it was bloody, so be warned when you're watching that part, the cutting part wasn't the most gruesome part of all, it would be the part where he cut his veins which he takes a deep breath before pursuing on cutting it, and when he did cut it you just feel chills on your bones, just moment after, he was free, and i was amazed actually and a little bit glad, he got free, but what amazed me was that, after that whole thing, he could still have energy to gather all his thing, and that's not all, he climbed down with his rope to get some water off the pond, which was actually funny, just after he reach the pond, he just dropped to the pond head first, after that he just walks further, and there was this blurry images as he screamed for help, it was people, finally he was saved as they give him water, and a helicopter arrived to bring him to the hospital.
And the story ended telling the aftermath of the whole thing, with his family in front of him, him having a baby.
So yeah, it was a good story, i don't really know how to rate it, but if i knew, think i would give it a 3/5, it was good but it wasn't great, though i can't really say that, cause i didn't went through the gruesome experience, which i hope i wouldn't have to. But i don't really recommend you to watch it, unless you really have time to spare, cause it's not the greatest movie of all time, but it's still okay to watch.
Again Thanks For Reading
-Aaron
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