I knew much of the story before I watched this film and honestly was a bit queezy as to what might be shown. I'm the sort who does not do well seeing blood and guts and watching this movie was a true test for me. If you are the type of person who gets queezy over stuff like this, I must say view with caution. If you can stomach watching this film, however, you will witness an incredible true story that you will never forget.
James Franco is really good in this film. Ralston himself has said the film is very true to what actually happened. It is quite a predicament that he is in and all the thoughts that go through his mind are ones that most would contemplate.
What Ralston does to survive this ordeal is unbelievable and something that many if not most people could not force themselves to do. Rating 7 of 10 starts. FAQ 6. Is " Hours" based on a book? How accurate is this movie? Does the entire film take place in the canyon?
Details Edit. Release date January 28, United States. United States United Kingdom France. Official Facebook Official site. English Italian. Moab, Utah, USA. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 34 minutes.
Related news. Aug 16 The Wrap. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. See the full list. Aron describes it as an ecstasy of feeling that he is driven through and you have to try to capture that in cinema.
It is exhilarating. It is disturbing and overwhelming, but exhilarating as well. I love them; but this is a much more profound feeling of euphoria that you arrive at, because you've also been through a great deal to get there.
Not as much as he has, obviously, but you've participated in it in some way. Aron, do not give up. Now wearing a prosthetic arm, Aron Ralston still climbs mountains and explores canyons. He also travels the world as an inspirational speaker. Search Search.
Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 11, VOA Africa Listen live. VOA Newscasts Latest program. I can use the boulder to break my bones! It was this moment of high emotion, rather than calm logic, that led to Ralston deliberately snapping the bones in his arm by hurling himself furiously against the boulder, finally enabling him to cut through his limb with a blunt knife.
It is hardly surprising that audiences have responded with feeling: fainting in auditoria when they watch the point when Ralston, brilliantly played by James Franco in the film he has been nominated for a Golden Globe , begins his amputation. Despite what might be considered an unpromising climax for mainstream entertainment, made more unpromising by the fact that most people know exactly what will happen, this moment is compelling, without Boyle being gratuitously gory.
And despite retelling the story for what must be the umpteenth time, Ralston is also utterly captivating, completely inhabiting the moment again, miming out what he did by making a brutal stabbing motion with his good arm into what is now a dark grey prosthetic limb. In the film, Franco's Ralston is at first a hyperactive, overconfident loner who believes he is invincible as he careers around Bluejohn Canyon, shamelessly showing off to a couple of female hikers he meets and, Jackass-like, taking photographs of himself when he falls off his mountain bike.
The year before his accident, Ralston quit his job as an engineer with Intel to climb all Colorado's "fourteeners" — its peaks over 14,ft. In May , he began "canyoneering" in Utah, navigating the narrow passages of Bluejohn with a mixture of free-climbing, daring jumps and climbing with ropes. He was negotiating a 10ft drop in a 3ft-wide canyon listening to his favourite band, Fish, when he dislodged a boulder he thought was stable.
I fell a few feet, in slow motion, I look up and the boulder is coming and I put my hands up and try to push myself away and it collides and crushes my right hand. The next second, the pain struck. In an "adrenalised rage", for 45 minutes he "cursed like a pirate". Then he reached for his water bottle. As he drank, he had to force himself to stop. Having failed to tell anyone where he was going, he knew he would not be found. It was like, all right, brute force isn't going to do it.
This is the stop-think-observe-plan phase of rational problem-solving. I have to think my way out of here. He ruled out the most drastic option — suicide — but the next most drastic alternative came to him immediately.
That little back-and-forth. Then, 'Wait a minute. I'm not talking to myself. That's just crazy. You're not talking to yourself, Aron. After two days spent fruitlessly chipping away at the rock with his knife and devising a clever but futile system of pulleys with his climbing clips and ropes to hoist the boulder clear — he was defeated because climbing rope is stretchy and he couldn't obtain the required tension — he put his knife to his arm, only to find it was so blunt he couldn't even cut his body hair.
In Boyle's film, when Ralston realises he can use the knife like a dagger rather than a saw, the camera follows the knife's journey into his flesh so the audience can see blade come to rest against bone inside his arm. This scene is "beautiful" to Ralston. He vividly remembers how it felt to have the knife in his arm, touching his bone "because it meant, I'm gonna die. It went from, 'I did it! By the fifth day, Ralston had found "peace" in "the knowledge that I am going to die here, this is my grave".
In the middle of his final night, hallucinating through hunger, lack of water and 3C temperatures, he had a vision of a small boy. I see myself scoop him up and there's this look in his eyes, 'Daddy, can we play now? Now it's like, I am going to get through this night.
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