{"id":9854,"date":"2010-10-23T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T05:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2010-10-23T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T05:22:11","slug":"127-hours-danny-boyle-2010-usauk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9854","title":{"rendered":"127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010): USA\/UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the Riviera, Santa Barbara, CA.<\/p>\n

\"\" 127 Hours<\/a><\/em> is the amount of time that hiker and rock-climber Aron Ralston spent pinned\u00a0down\u00a0by a boulder inside a canyon.<\/p>\n

In the early morning\u00a0hours of a May morning in 2003, alone and unafraid, Aron Ralston (James Franco) sets out to hike Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah.\u00a0 He parks his car, then pedals his\u00a0roadbike in about 17 miles, before hiking on foot.\u00a0 Along the way he stumbles upon two female hikers who have veered off their\u00a0trail and, being an expert, Ralston not only guides them back, but shows them an alternate route with a wonderful pool of water.<\/p>\n

Once on his own again, Ralston proceeds with his hike until he slips and a large boulder comes crashing over his head, trapping his right forearm.\u00a0 Ralston remains calm, assesses the situation, and sets about with various tasks attempting to free himself.\u00a0 By the fifth day, existing on bodily fluids alone, he takes drastic measures with a very dull knife.<\/p>\n

Although supposedly an expert, he has no helmet, not enough water and no buddy!\u00a0 And this\u00a0is where\u00a0the real story begins. \u00a0Ralston’s over-confidence in his own abilities is what gets him into trouble, and his ultimate\u00a0journey is\u00a0one of self-reflection.<\/p>\n

127 Hours <\/em>is full of action, sprinkled with humor, and very much a tear-jerker.\u00a0 A tear-jerker?\u00a0 Yes, very much so.\u00a0 I found myself emotionally choked up for a few hours after the film had ended!\u00a0 James Franco is solid and delivers a moving and heartfelt performance as Ralston.<\/p>\n

There are elements in the film that only Danny Boyle can attempt and tactfully achieve, whereas another director might botch it, such as a fictional game show transpiring in the mind of Ralston as he hallucinates, or the split-screen process in several scenes.\u00a0 The Boyle energy abounds in the pacing, the soundtrack, the cuts – and it works!<\/p>\n

Warning:\u00a0 there is a horrific scene.\u00a0 It is not gore from a mindless splice and dice film, it is an\u00a0integral part of the reflective and enduring process.\u00a0 If you turn away or close your eyes you will be missing a vital part of Ralston’s journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at the Riviera, Santa Barbara, CA. 127 Hours is the amount of time that hiker and rock-climber Aron Ralston spent pinned\u00a0down\u00a0by a boulder inside a canyon. In the early morning\u00a0hours of a May morning in 2003, alone and unafraid, Aron Ralston (James Franco) sets out to hike Canyonlands National Park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema-society","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}