Thursday, April 14, 2011

Personal Movie Review of 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle.

Alright people, are you ready for the best personal movie review ever? Well, the first movie I will be reviewing is 127 Hours, starring James Franco, and directed by Danny Boyle. This movie is an adventure/biography/Drama, and was nominated for six Oscars, with another six wins, and sixty seven nominations.  After hearing all about this movie from friends for weeks, I decided to give it a whirl.  I mean you cant beat the plot- well, because its true! This movie is about Aaron Ralston, a young man who is absolutely hell bent on adventure.  The movie starts out with Ralston excitedly getting ready for his big adventure ignoring any phone calls from family, and making the decision not to tell a soul where he is going, which turns out to be a HUGE mistake on his part. He sets out alone to go canyonerring near Moab, Utah.  He meets a few girls along the way, but they end up being the only people he sees.  The whole plot of the movie is Ralston ends up getting his arm stuck under a huge boulder, and is trapped nearly six days until he does something amazing to extricate himself from the situation.  While he is there, he only has very few supplies, and very little water.  One of his supplies happens to be his camcorder which he uses to apologize to his family for what he believes to be his impending death, and it also serves as his only source of entertainment.  During his life altering adventure, he has many visions of life, which are mostly hallucinations- such as the intense desire for more than a few hundred milliliters of water a day.  While he is trapped, he examines his life and basically decides his life is worth fighting for after an intense heart wrenching premonition.  This movie is a very moving story, and a great display of human courage, and the rawness of life itself.  I give this movie two thumbs up!  Its definitely worth watching, and is highly motivating and the strength of this man is moving.  This is really one of those movies that will teach you more than a little something about life.  There is a famous tagline from this movie that explains it so well- "There is no force more powerful than the will to live."  Go rent it today!!

 

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