Calum Gilchrist
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Review: 127 Hours
7 Jan
Every week on a Friday my friends and I do, what we call: Double Feature Friday. Basically we watch two films back to back every Friday evening. This evening we only watched one: 127 Hours.
127 Hours was pretty much everything I expected. I’d already heard the story that the film was based on so was slightly prepared for what happened in the film. The particular scene I was worried about was incredibly gruesome and you could feel the tension in the room after the scene had passed, it was quite horrific but isn’t the most horrible thing I’ve seen on-screen.
The story was good it wasn’t entirely what I expected. I really liked the way that Aron took hold of the situation and used his vast knowledge of wilderness survival to keep himself going. Luckily he was pretty prepared for going out in the wilderness and he had a lot of experience so had plenty of ideas and escape plans.
I could not do half of what Aron Ralston did in that situation, it’s quite inspiring to see how well held together this man is. There are several hallucinations in the film which are quite good as it isn’t quite clear what is reality and isn’t in some of them, where others were just out right strange and mystifying.
Danny Boyle was completely in love with splitscreens in this film. Now, I like splitscreens but when half of the film is in splitscreen it’s a little strange. The splitscreens were done well but there were far too many of them. That’s a very nit picky thing, by the way.
The soundtrack was quite nice but eclectic. There is one scene where Danny Boyle picked the strangest song choice for that particular moment which was rather bizarre.
Overall I enjoyed 127 Hours but it left me a little taken aback by the one scene in particular.
127 Hours: 4 stars
