127 Hours directed by Danny Boyle and starring James Franco is a truly inspirational and emotional film about outdoorsman Aron Ralston. Everyone remembers turning on the news in 2003 and hearing about a guy that was out hiking and had to cut his own arm off in order to survive. After reading many articles and watching dozens of videos 127 Hours sticks to the true story in terms of what Ralston experienced and how he dealt with his predicament. The movie also made sure to include specific details in the crucial scene; such as, the nerves he has to get through and the smile when he breaks his arm so he can cut through it.
Subject matter aside, 127 Hours as a whole is a fantastic film. It opens up with video of the world around us, cities, sports, people, all edited together in three side by side shots to make the impression that it’s a lot bigger than we think. The music throughout the movie is incredible, it makes the feelings you already feel just by watching it so much more intense with triumphant sounds, acoustic guitars that match the landscape or electric guitar to symbolize the intense pain Ralston endures (if you would like to listen to some of it without watching the movie this is an example of the triumphant, remembering type of music and here is one that makes you feel kind of sad and desperate just listening to it). James Franco is quite amazing in this movie obviously; he got nominated for Best Actor. His facial expressions and emotions that he portrays are so spot on, he just sucks you into the movie and you feel like you are there.
I feel a little bad about not being able to write a longer review for such a great movie, but everyone already knows what happens and all I can really say is how good a job they did on making the true story come to the big screen. 127 Hours is a fantastic film that everyone should see for one reason or another. I highly recommend this movie if you’re sitting at home with nothing to do and want something really good to watch.
