Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire), simply put, makes unbelievable movies. 127 Hours is his latest and equally as entertaining.
127 Hours follows the journey of Aron Ralston, a rock climbing fanatic, who goes canyoneering in an area with little people in Utah and finds himself calling for desperate measures - he gets his arm stuck between a large fallen rock and the wall of the canyon he is exploring. Desperate measures is the only way to describe it as towards the end of the film, the audience is exposed to one of the most emotional and visually disturbing scenes. After trying and failing with several attempts of freeing his arm, Ralston is left with no choice and forced to perform amputation on himself.
As the movie progresses, we see the mental instability start to take over James Franco's character. The longer he is stuck, the more insane he goes. He starts hallucinating, random fits of crying, and he gets himself stuck with only a finger of water in his water bottle, so we see him struggle to maintain a reasonable amount of water for himself.
Danny Boyle uses a technique where the audience sees several different angles of the same character doing something on the screen at one time. Sometimes it is too much and visually confusing for the watchers, but accompanied by a great score by A.R. Rahman (who also did the great soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire), I was able to find these scenes enjoyable. The intensity of everything going on on screen was extremely groovy.
One of my favourite performances by James Franco. No questions asked, this was definitely worth an Academy Award nomination. 8/10.
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