127 hours is an enthralling movie based on Aron Ralston's autobiography "Between a Rock and a Hard place" Only a truly visionary filmmaker could take an anecdote largely set in a confined canyon and give it a sense of candidness and hope.
So many films assert inspiration, but here is one to truly inspire. The opening credits of 127 Hours are a blissful hodgepodge of the race of every day life leading to the pledge of an adventurous weekend which is shot in stunningly stylish and luminous approach. Most remarkable opening sequences in recent times!
Young Aron Ralston, played by James Franco, is a high-spirited, cheerful and wild adventurer who schedules to the wildest desserts to rock climb and bike across the terrain which at one point of time makes the viewer feel that he is watching brand new commercial of Mountain dew, of course nevertheless pleasurable. He gets hand-in-hand with two vacationers (played by Amber Tamblyn & Kate Mara) who have just got no idea about where to go. Aron shows them his fancy spots, all 3 of them cherish great time and right after after departing from them, Aron lands into hell, actually canyon, where boulder crushes his hand & 127 hours is his mighty story of how he saves himself from this place, where exactly no one is there for his assistance. A bottle of water and some of his made in china’s useless tools somehow aid him but you got to see how Aron spends 127 hours in canyon. Also, he uses camera to shoot his out-of-blue, desperate and painful efforts in the canyon to slide away the boulder.
In a canyon, where he is stuck & stalled, he is almost dying, even in such scenario; he throws humor to uplift himself which astonishingly succeeds to lit a smile and uplifts the viewer also. It's worth elaborating on the splendid & amusing performance of James Franco, who's up for every bit of Boyle's challenge. It’s his incredible acting that makes 127 hours more than just a movie. Effortlessly, viewer is able to sense the tension of the protagonist’s scenario and his desperation to survive and get away from canyon as soon as possible.
Screenplay is wholly uncomplicated and superb by Simon Beufoy and Danny Boyle, through which viewer’s emotional chord easily intersects with the protagonist’s suffering. It makes me say that Anthony Dod Mantle is so passionate about cinematography that his passion is just indescribable. Camerawork is enormously radiant and dazzling which makes 127 hours visually spectacular.
When you listen to the soundtrack through your headphones it is not that impressive. But when it comes as background score, it’s truly extraordinary and gives soothing effect to the movie and the listener. Asian Mozart never misses a beat. “If I rise” is undeniably the best of the lot, which harmonically talks about hope, conviction and optimism.
Reality could not have been more real. Don’t miss this shocking, thrilling and mighty movie. It teaches you many things, one of them exactly is what no to do while going for an adventure on a deserted place!
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