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Brand: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Edition: No enhanced packaging
Format: NTSC
Release Date: 01-03-2011
Details: Amazon.caAron Ralston (played by James Franco) is traipsing alone through Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, minding his own sweet-natured, loosey-goosey business, when an errant step drops him into a crevasse. That in itself wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t managed to get his right hand stuck between a heavy boulder and the side of the cavern–a cavern that will be his grave, if he doesn’t figure out how to get himself out. Danny Boyle’s film of this real-life 2003 incident builds up to what we all know is going to happen: Ralston must sever his arm between his elbow and wrist, after a few long, lonely days of avoiding the idea. (Superb casual line delivery by Franco: « So I found this great tourniquet. ») Because this is a film by the director ofSlumdog Millionaire andTrainspotting, we can expect a barrage of visual high jinks, despite the fact that this story would seem to be a simple tale of a man stuck in the desert. Boyle deploys flashbacks and fantasies to fill up the screen, plus he gets some mileage out of Ralston’s video camera–and, of course, this director can’t resist juicing the soundtrack with pop tunes, from Sigur Rs to Edith Piaf toSlumdog composer A.R. Rahman. Maybe Boyle is simply hyperactive, or maybe he’s really onto something about what would happen inside the mind of a man left in extremis for an extended period (who wouldn’t have a few Boyle-esque hallucinations, under the circumstances?). The cumulative effect is overbearing, but Franco’s performance is spirited and endearing–he makes Ralston sufficiently « of life » that you definitely don’t want to see this goofball soul be lost.–Robert Horton
UPC: 024543736332
EAN: 0024543736332
Languages: English
Binding: DVD
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood
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