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I saw it. The amputation scene looked like it would have stung a bit when done IRL.
"127 Hours"--it is true
Anyone else seen this movie?
This belongs under HISTORY because it is history. It really did happen. The impossible was achieved. The movie is also extremely accurate. One can read about the actual ordeal in Wikipedia or in the book he wrote about it.
127 Hours (the movie):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/
I recently saw 127 Hours, the movie about Aron Lee Ralston's account of his ordeal while mountain climbing in Utah that eventually forced him to amputate his right arm with a dull knife in order to free himself from a boulder.
Of course, I thought it had to be highly fictionalized or rather just a pure work of fiction. Again, I was wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_HoursPer Wikipedia:
The scenes early in the film of Ralston's encounter with the two hikers were altered to portray Ralston showing them a hidden pool, when in reality he just showed them some basic climbing moves.
Despite these changes, with which he was initially uncomfortable, Ralston says the rest of the film is "so factually accurate it is as close to a documentary as you can get and still be a drama."
I saw it. The amputation scene looked like it would have stung a bit when done IRL.
What's in the film is true.
What the movie didn't show was that his mother knew something was wrong when he didn't call after two days,so she called all the parks he went he went to ,and the rangers found his car and were looking for him,that's why the hellicopter got there so quick and the hellicoper and medical help getting there so quick was probabaly what saved his life.
It is difficult for any decent person to sit back and not comment on the anti-Semitism,racism ,sexism ,and all-around ignorance espoused on the majority of DA's posts,it's fucking sad when one gets a warning for simply being a decent person.
You are right, as usual.Originally Posted by Truth Teller
I got the impression he had did not know help was coming. Maybe he hoped and that hope lead him to refuse to give in to death. Maybe he simply refused to die until he had no life left in him. It would have been far easier on day 3 or 4 or 5 to simply give in to the Grim Reeper.
Imagine:
(1) Going to sleep assuming you would not survive the night.
(2) Being almost out of water and bone tired.
(3) Waking up bone tired and bone dry and making the decision to rip/cut part of your arm off if you had any chance of surviving and then doing it and knowing you'd have to stem blood loss or you'd bleed to death.
(4) Knowing if you could free the arm and you did not bleed to death you had to scale down about 60-feet with one arm.
(5) Thinking if you got to that point you would have to walk about 8 miles to your vehicle if no one was near to help you when you (if you) did make it to the ground.
It is a remarkable story, and except for what you mentioned, it is accurate.
He didn't know people were looking for him,and if he hadn't cut his arm he would have died there and not been found.
He still does things like that alone,but now he's married and he always tells his wife where he's going ,and that if he doesn't call at a certain time, then she is to call the park rangers to set up the search operation.
So far,he's always made the call on time.
In fact,he and a NBC crew went back to that site and his bloodstains were still there,I'll never forget the look on his face seeing that.
It is difficult for any decent person to sit back and not comment on the anti-Semitism,racism ,sexism ,and all-around ignorance espoused on the majority of DA's posts,it's fucking sad when one gets a warning for simply being a decent person.
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