DVD Review: “127 Hours”

127 Hours

Released: March 1, 2011

Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Running Time: 94 minutes

ABOUT:

From Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) comes the powerfully uplifting true story of one man’s struggle to survive against mountainous odds. Aron Ralston (James Franco) has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker’s adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends–as well as his own courage and ingenuity–to turn adversity into triumph!

MY THOUGHTS:

I honestly had never heard of this movie before receiving it other than to know it was based on a true story, which I liked.  The movie “127 Hours” is about a man who loves venturing around in the outdoors, specifically canyons in Utah.  One weekend he packs up a backpack and heads out a remote canyon in Utah.  He runs into two girls and they explore together, but then they go their own ways, that was Saturday afternoon.  So now Aron (James Franco) is on his own and he falls in a canyon with a boulder landing right on his arm.  Aron basically sees his life flash before his eyes and hallucinates for those 127 hours he is stuck down there.  I was amazed watching this movie how he knew what to do and how he survived for that long period of time without basically much food or water.  I admit when it came time for him to get his arm out from being stuck under the boulder, I couldn’t watch, but he obviously survived.  He got himself out and luckily ran into hikers who helped him and got him to safety.  It is a true story of survival, triumph, willpower, and cherishing what you have.

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