127 hours
Whilst watching this film, I was reminded of an event in history. The Gunpowder revolution. Gunpowder was not just used for shooting people. It was also used for blasting, indeed my grandfather kept some for this purpose my father once had to hold up traffic on the road. So Grandad, could blast some rocks.
The natural world, is a senseless thing
This review has spoilers
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
The plot is no secret. James Franco, goes Hiking, he gets his hand trapped, in an accident. With no mobile phone, and in the wilderness of Utah, the antagonist is alone with his
Franco does a good job in the movie. He has to hold up the film’s universe on his shoulders. His character is a likeable loner. He gets thrown off his bike, cycling across the desert and photographs himself knocked on his ass.
The Utah landscape is beautiful. There is a moment, where our hero is covered in light, as it moves along his cavern. The Caverns and craters were the home of the Hole in the wall gang. The heroes of one of my favourite films. Butch and Sundance.
In a sense this film is a western it is man, in an alien environment and he has to conquer it, he has to impose order on his new world so he can be settled
Indeed the first thing James Franco see’s after he is trapped is an airplane trail, he may has well has been looking at men on the moon. The Human world is distant. For most of the film the nearest companion the lead has is a Raven which flies past his prison every morning
The protagonist efforts to free himself, take up most of the film, and his hallucation’s as he deals with his isolation and confinement. He see’s the party he was invited to earlier by two female hikers he flirted and walked with, his childhood, his lost love.
In watching this film I was reminded of how dangerous and helpless we are alone in the natural world. A hundred kilograms of rock traps our hero. How stupid those people who seek to return us to it are.
A singular performance by Franco.
The natural world, is a senseless thing
This review has spoilers
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
The plot is no secret. James Franco, goes Hiking, he gets his hand trapped, in an accident. With no mobile phone, and in the wilderness of Utah, the antagonist is alone with his
Franco does a good job in the movie. He has to hold up the film’s universe on his shoulders. His character is a likeable loner. He gets thrown off his bike, cycling across the desert and photographs himself knocked on his ass.
The Utah landscape is beautiful. There is a moment, where our hero is covered in light, as it moves along his cavern. The Caverns and craters were the home of the Hole in the wall gang. The heroes of one of my favourite films. Butch and Sundance.
In a sense this film is a western it is man, in an alien environment and he has to conquer it, he has to impose order on his new world so he can be settled
Indeed the first thing James Franco see’s after he is trapped is an airplane trail, he may has well has been looking at men on the moon. The Human world is distant. For most of the film the nearest companion the lead has is a Raven which flies past his prison every morning
The protagonist efforts to free himself, take up most of the film, and his hallucation’s as he deals with his isolation and confinement. He see’s the party he was invited to earlier by two female hikers he flirted and walked with, his childhood, his lost love.
In watching this film I was reminded of how dangerous and helpless we are alone in the natural world. A hundred kilograms of rock traps our hero. How stupid those people who seek to return us to it are.
A singular performance by Franco.
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