Producer: Christian Colson, John Smithson, Danny Boyle, Sharan Kapoor
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clémence Poésy, Lizzy Caplan, Treat Williams, Kate Burton
Music: AR Rahman
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
Ever wondered what if caught in a canyon all alone, much worse at a crucial state pinned by a not less then 800 pound boulder rock?.. 127 hours, the new Danny Boyle movie speaks about it all…
An agonizing, unforgettable survival of Aron Ralston’s struggle to live and to lose - plots the whole movie. Director Danny Boyle does it all with such a promising performance of James Franco as Aron Ralston. A lesser filmmaker would have bleached at the hope of spending an entire movie in one place, with one character, and nothing to do but stare on the stones and sky, waiting for nothing but a raven every morning in such a complication. (At least Tom Hanks had an island to wander around and a beach ball to talk to in his movie Cast Away)
The film is based on the true life story of a trapped climber Aron Ralston and his bestselling memoir “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”... It is such a tangible force pulsing through “127 Hours” which proves almost impossible to be drawn into the Blue John Canyon for the real life trial of Aron Ralston, trapped in the remote area of Utah’s Canyonlands National Park.
It would have been tough for the viewers to sit through the movie, if Boyle would have thought nothing but to relieve Ralston’s from the tight spot, instead the thoughts about the choices he would have made for not being to the place keeps us fixed to the sequences. There are attempts taken to make a point about the way we’re all connected and how much we need each other, or to make a statement about the power of the human spirit.
The moment of relief spreads in the air when Franco frees himself with such an agony and still be able to click a snap of the lost part (merely considered insane or positive… up to u)
A.R.Rahman scores tangles to the sequences and prove success to his combination with Boyle once again after the Oscar Winning “Slumdog Millionaire”.
To conclude, its one man, in a hole, he does what must be done in order to survive, and that’s enough. There is no force more powerful then the will to live.
