127 hours is a tender, biographical adventure film directed by Danny Boyle. It focuses on a man called Aron Ralston who gets trapped by a boulder between a canyon wall and inevitably ends up fighting for survival.
Yes, when it comes down to it, 127 Hours is a film about a mountain climber who gets stuck under a boulder and has to cut off his own arm. But it's so much more than that. It's about a man overcoming the physical, emotional, and intellectual strains of an unthinkable situation.
Ralston became famous in 2003 after becoming pinned by a boulder in a slot canyon south of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. After spending five nights in the canyon, in danger of dying of dehydration, Ralston sawed his right arm off below the elbow to escape. The incident was famously depicted in the film 127 Hours.
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His severed hand and forearm were retrieved from under the boulder by park authorities. According to television presenter Tom Brokaw, it took 13 men, a winch and a hydraulic jack to move the boulder so that Ralston's arm could be removed. His arm was then cremated and the ashes given to Ralston.
The subterranean pool is Homestead Crater, in the Homestead Resort and Spa at Midway, in Wasatch Canyon about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The Crater is a natural hot spring surrounded by a rock dome of tufa, or travertine, slowly built up by the periodic overflow of mineral-rich water.
What is the movie about the guy stuck in the canyon?
127 hours is a tender, biographical adventure film directed by Danny Boyle. It focuses on a man called Aron Ralston who gets trapped by a boulder between a canyon wall and inevitably ends up fighting for survival.
They give him water and alert the authorities; a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter brings him to a hospital. During the end credits, it is revealed that years later, Aron got married and had a son (as seen in his vision). He also continues climbing, and always leaves a note telling his family where he has gone.
He befriends lost hikers Kristi and Megan and gives them directions. While guiding them, he shows them an underground pool. The three have a good time there, and that afternoon, the girls invite him to a party that is being held the following night. Aron accepts and says goodbye to the girls, who head home.
The 26-year-old woman, from Boulder, Colorado, fell about 500 feet while climbing the Four Aces of Blitzen Ridge on Ypsilon Mountain on the east side of the park, according to the National Parks Service. Authorities recovered her body Monday morning.
Two American women competing to be the first in the country to scale the tallest 14 mountains were killed while climbing the last remaining peak on their list. Gina Rzucidlo and Anna Gutu and their Nepalese guides both lost their lives in separate avalanches while climbing Mount Shishapangma in Tibet on Saturday.
John Bachar died (5 July 2009; age 52) in a free solo accident at Dike Wall near Mammoth Lakes, California. Michael J. Ybarra died (July 2012; age 45) climbing solo on The Matterhorn Peak in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains.
As an avid climber and adventurer, Aron Ralston often imagined countless different scenarios of how he'd save himself if something went wrong. But he never thought of the one that would end up making him famous after he cut off his own arm in 2003 to escape from 127 hours stuck in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon.
On September 28, an experienced Korean climbing guide reportedly passed away in Yosemite, after rappelling off the end of his rope while descending from Sickle Ledge on the iconic El Cap route, The Nose (VI 5.9 C2 3000').
The logline and description may not sound like much, but 127 Hours delivers one of the most riveting and incredibly emotional experiences I have had in a theatre in some time. I was unsure Boyle and his crew could top their Oscar-winning work in Slumdog Millionaire, but this film improves upon it in every way possible.
With no one around to rescue him, Ralston had to perform a self-amputation. Thankfully, he survived and lived to tell the tale in his book, which became the Oscar-nominated film “127 Hours.”
This may be a great film, and an ingenious film, but only if you've the stomach for it. Any film that relies on one actor to carry the movie demands a lot of its leading man but James Franco applies a youthful exuberance that makes him so watchable it's all viewers could do not to blink.
