127 hours is the time it took to Aron Ralston decide to amputate the arm that was crushed and pinned under a rock. Welcoming the universal impact of this incident, Danny Boyle chose to adapt the autobiography of the young engineer under stallonien mountaineer 'Louder than a rock '. New challenge for the British director, or rather back to basics, because if we forget for a moment the gigantic sets, namely immortal canyons, slots real evil in which man has been caught in a trap, we find the atmosphere behind closed doors of his early films and the principle of confinement and loneliness that emanated from Trainspotting, Shallow Grave and A Life Less Ordinary .
James Franco is charged with the incarnate courage of heroes. But it all starts well. Usual split screen which divides the screen into three columns from the generic. Split screen no justification except the rhythm probably because the node staging is certainly this one. How then give rhythm to a story confined to a crater 80 cm wide and four meters deep. Watch Buried perhaps? Or condense most of the physical virtuosity of the realization in the first twenty minutes, first in film history, having two directors of photography on the shoot. Music donf, preparation of the backpack's perfect climber (thin hand does not reach the Swiss Army knife yet it touches the bottom of the cabinet): carabiners, water, snacks and camera to shoot! All there. Boyle makes fart plans, it connects serious James on his moutain bike slalom in the rocks of Utah. Cool, he falls over after two chicks sprawled on the floor laughing. This proves that it is a hedonist. It is also asexual as Christopher McCandless (the hero of Into The Wild), which excites him is the nature, the great empty land. The time to do three dives in a pool recalling the Beach and the adventurer left alone to his fate.
The accident occurred away from the world, far, far away from any sign of life other than the flight of a raven melancholy and the infinite paths mechanical ants. Ralston is trapped, a prisoner's arm, he screams in fear before changing his mind. He has his equipment in front of him, suspended above the ground, water bottle, a watch, a camera, not really sharp knife ... In As time their own little dramas to the solitary life after another: drop his knife, returned with a branch of wood wedged between the toes. But trouble lurks, then Boyle's account focuses on the sensation of thirst quickly strangles her with Ralston and Ralston it extracts from its canyon through his delusions, his visions of the future where a woman and a child watching the slow survive. The hallucinations are linked together, they restore the speed but fail to frame all the desperate look of reality. Ralston films himself while talking to his parents, single dummy taken on the wall of the fall. The sensation of thirst is obviously very difficult to make much more than the smallness of the coffin Buried. Boyle pushes it a little too far by unloading his camera in the pit and making him do the opposite to the trunk of Ralston and landed on a bottle of Gatorade. Ultimate product placement of a giant commercial for the drink refreshing.
Therefore we expect the fall, we know that from the beginning, namely mutilation saving. Particularly painful to imagine, this epic humanist and completed in a relatively incredible sentimental halo where Ralston miles down the road with his bloody stump before you get help and escape from the Moab Canyon by helicopter. Boyle and plagiarize the end of Schindler's List by inviting to church heroic Ralston himself and his wife sat on a couch and laying down the camera as if to emphasize the realism of a realization the intimate solitude.
Released in France: Belgium Released 23/02/2011
: 16/02/2011
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