Review of 127 Hours (2010) by Jonnyfendi — 21 Jan 2011

The movie is based on an autobiography book BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE (2004) by Aron Ralston, and you can see the movie title is 127 HOURS. Without tell you any further, you can conclude yourself, he will survive after all, rite? The golden question will be: How did he survive? British Director, Danny Boyle is one of my favorites Directors of all-time, as I noted he is always good with the number on his movie titles, such as: 28 DAYS LATER.. (2002) and MILLIONS (2004). After telling a great story in India through SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008), he takes us back to United States. The incident that occurred in Blue john Canyon (the Utah desert) where solitary mountaineer Aron Ralston was falling into canyon and being trapped under a boulder. Aron played by James Franco. The movie starts with a great mood and spirit, with stylish split screen and exhilarating music as well. As long as I remember, Boyle always could make an enjoyable adventure experience with his proper music attached to every scene he made, and he did it thiz time either. James Franco takes on responsibility for his one-man-show very well. My favorite act is when he imitates the host of Morning Live Show and pretends to interview himself. He is very convincing by delivering nail-biting and captivating performances all at once, just like what Ryan Reynold did recently when he was being BURIED (2010). Once again, Boyle shows his capability of capturing human despair by mixing hallucination scenes and flashback sequences. Overall, it was 8 minutes of great music and 1 hour 27 minutes of pure thrills. In the end, I can assure you the situation that Aron experienced is not simple as you think. When you were being trapped like him, it is just okay if you know you are going to survive in 127 Hours ahead, maybe you can manage something to get through of that. But the real situation is not that simple, Aron did not know for how long he would be stuck in there or even whether or not he was going to survive at that moment. Last time, Danny Boyle introduced us the exotic of Phi Phi Leh Island (near Phuket , Thailand) through THE BEACH (2000), after that movie, thousands of people thronged that place. Thiz time, Boyle shows us the beautifulness of Utah Canyon, I am pretty sure people will go there as well. Cannot wait what place he will take us next time. Just remember, before you go please tell someone where are you going to ^_^.

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