127 Hours review
127 Hours: 4 out of 4
There is something that people celebrate the heroics because people do extraordinary things, things that amaze us and things, yet they may be ordinary people. Aron is not the amazing person we may want to think; rather he is a lonely kid that isolated himself from the world, his act of stupidity was a cost that lead him to his prolonged suffering. In 2003, Aron Ralston (James Franco) went hiking around in a Utah desert, when mistaking the boulder to hold, falls down in the isolated canyon with his hand trapped by that loose bolder when he fell in. The biopic avoids celebrating this philosophy or detailing about his history, rather it delves into the psychology of Aron, as he sheds in his true humanity lets echoes of his fantasies and memories to ultimately haunt him for the rest of his life; although he learns more about his humanity.
As the film beings, we are exposed into the care-free world that Aron lives in, ignoring the calls from his family, he goes off during the night for some hiking around the desert. The next day, when trekking back in the desert, he meets two girls who ask him where they are, and thus he guides them around, showing a few of the areas in the desert; after which he promised to go to a party with them. After they depart, Aron crosses the border when the rock suddenly loosen off and he falls of, and his right hand is trapped in the boulder. This is where it really begins.
If viewing it for a detailing of the life of Aron and his willingness to amputate his arm and live would be entirely missing the point; this is about how deprivation makes us go to our last resorts, as the days goes by, Aron creates delusions, fantasies, memories and nightmares that lets him explore the darkest places that people hide in their world, and we beg for redemption and it changes our lives. Much like the fictional character Scrooge from Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol”, but instead of an evil and bitter man of a higher class that prides in power, it is a middle class boy who is in no definition evil nor bitter, just that he puts little care to the people close to him that, like Scrooge, led him to his lonely life. He is very relatable to anyone that had experienced isolation, loneliness, and mental suffering. James Franco does an excellent job portraying the charismatic and likable character, yet is still very effective in his most dramatic roles when it reflects on the film's dying character; we do not idolize him or celebrate his cause, we just feel empathetic and pity for him.
The film is full of some of the most unbearable scenes in recent memory, and not just the amputation scene, but most of the film is set inside the basin which he is trapped in, and his imagination is sent wild, and the longer he waits, the more unbearable it is. Everything is top notched technically in the production area, with director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) taking a real narrative risk by limiting dialogue and character interaction; the movie is Aron's mind playing tricks on him as an attempt to keep him sane. The film is one of the most visually striking and unbearable films in recent memory, and one of the best films in 2010. Go see it!
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i've never been so disappointed.
oh well 
so effin' stupid 
You're welcome. 
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