Title

Genre

127 Hours
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Drama

Director

Danny Boyle

Year

2011

Duration

93 Minutes

Stars

James Franco
Amber Tamblyn
Kate Mara

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Bravo for this movie. One of the inspiring drama about

adventure. In this life sometimes a person will make an enormous
mistake and get a lot of time to think about it. There was a man who
went over Niagara Falls sealed inside a big rubber ball. It never made it
to the bottom. The ball lodged somewhere on the way down. He'd
counted on his team to cut him out after he landed. Oops! Aron
Ralston, the hero of "127 Hours," had an oops! moment. That's even
what he calls it. He went hiking in the wilderness without telling
anyone where he was going, and then in a deep, narrow crevice, got
his forearm trapped between a boulder and the canyon wall. Oops.
Ralston stumbled out to safety more than five days later, having
cut off his own right arm to escape. He is an upbeat and resilient
person and has returned to rock climbing, although now, I trust, after
filing a plan, going with a companion and not leaving his Swiss Army
Knife behind. The knife would have been ever so much more
convenient than his multipurpose tool. I imagine that every time he
considers his missing right forearm, he feels that under the
circumstances he's better off without it.
For most of the film he deals with one location and one
actor, James Franco. There's a carefree prologue in which Ralston and
a couple of young woman hikers have a swim in an underwater cavern.
Later, during moments of hallucination, other people from his life seem
to visit. But the fundamental reality is expressed in the title of the book
he wrote about his experience: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Franco does a good job of suggesting two aspects of Ralston's
character. He's a cocky, bold adventurer who trusts his skills and likes
taking chances, and he's logical and bloody-minded enough to cut

through his own skin and bone to save his life. One aspect gets him
into his problem, and the other gets him out.

EVALUATIVE
SUMMATION

EVALUATIION

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Is the film watchable? Yes, compulsively. Films like this don't

move quickly or slowly, they seem to take place all in the same
moment. They prey on our own deep fear of being trapped somewhere
and understanding that there doesn't seem to be any way to escape.
Edgar Allan Poe mined this vein in several different ways. Ralston is at
least fortunate to be standing on a secure foothold; one can imagine
the boulder falling and leaving him dangling in mid-air from the
trapped arm.
Suddenly, his world has become very well-defined. There is the
crevice. There is the strip of sky above, crossed by an eagle on its
regular flight path. There are the things he brought with him: a video
camera, some water, a little food, his inadequate little tool. It doesn't
take long to make an inventory. He shouts for help, but who can hear?
The two women campers have long since gone their way and won't
report him missing because they won't realize that he is. For anyone to
happen to find him is unthinkable. He will die or do something.
"127 Hours" is like an exercise in conquering the unfilmable.
Boyle uses magnificent cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle and
Enrique Chediak, establishing the vastness of the Utah wilderness, and
the very specific details of Ralston's small portion of it. His editor, Jon
Harris, achieves the delicate task of showing an arm being cut through
without ever quite showing it. For the audience the worst moment is
not a sight but a sound. Most of us have never heard that sound
before, but we know exactly what it is.
Pain and bloodshed are so common in the movies. They are
rarely amped up to the level of reality, because we want to be
entertained, not sickened. We and the heroes feel immune. "127
Hours" removes the filters. It implicates us. By identification, we are
trapped in the canyon, we are cutting into our own flesh. One element
that film can suggest but not evoke is the brutality of the pain
involved. I can't even imagine what it felt like. Maybe that made it
easier for Ralston, because in one way or another, his decision limited
the duration of his suffering.
He must be quite a man. The film deliberately doesn't make him
a hero more of a capable athlete trapped by a momentary decision.
He cuts off his arm because he has to. He was lucky to succeed. One
can imagine a news story of his body being discovered long afterward,
with his arm only partly cut through. He did what he had to do, which
doesn't make him a hero.

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