Review of film

127 horas

The story is based on real events

On 25 April 2003, Aron Ralston is prepared for a day of Canyoning in the Land National Park Canyons of Utah.

Ralston continues in Blue John Canyon, through a narrow passage where boulders are suspended, slipped between the rock walls. As it descends, a rock is shaken and released, falling after Ralston towards the bottom of the canyon and trapping his right arm against the canyon wall. Initially she cries for help, but the extreme isolation of its location means no one is available to listen. As he resigns himself to the fact that he is alone, he begins recording a video diary on your camera and using his multi-tool pocket to try to weaken the rock. rationing water and food also begins.

As he realizes his efforts to undermine the rock are useless, start trying to cut his arm, but find that your knife is not suitable to cut the skin. Then he manages to rip your arm, but realizes it will not be able to cut through the bone. It is without water and forced to drink his own urine. Your video recorded by increasingly desperate as he feels death. She begins to dream about past relationships and experiences, including his former girlfriend, his family, and the two hikers he met before the accident. After reflecting on his life, he concludes that everything he has done has led to this ordeal, and he was destined to die alone in the canyon.

He discovered that by applying sufficient force to his forearm could break. He does muster the will to do it and finally breaks the arm with the dull knife, and the configuration of a tourniquet with insulating your CamelBak tube and using a carabiner to tighten. Wrap the stump of his arm and takes a picture of the rock caught while. Then step through the canyon, where he is forced to climb a rock wall 65 meters and walk several kilometers, exhausted and covered in blood opens, finally he finds a family after a day of hiking. The Ralston family sends aid and is evacuated by a helicopter Utah Highway Patrol.

The film ends with shots of the real Aron Ralston and his life after his ordeal