127 hours

Last night we had a wonderful dinner with Adam and Annie, and talked films and life and all those wonderful things. But it got my movie jones up so off I went to 127 HOURS. I had been avoiding it.
I saw the guy who the movie is actually about, and just knowing what he has to do to escape, I didn’t really want to see something that gruesome. But….every week, on CSI they show bodies being ripped apart, and mangled and blood flying everywhere so I finally decided that I could be a husky and deal with it. And I’m glad I did.
The film starts with this hotshot “canyonier” riding across UTAH with total abandon, jumping around on rocks, jumping over caverns, laughing at adversity when crashing into a thorny bush, then after a break with 2 young hikers girls who are lost, he heads back taking a short cut through another canyon.
Now in case you haven’t been to Canyon Lands National Park, it is littered with canyons and skinny little passage ways that wend their way down to big hulking canyons, and this is where the film really begans. Our hero is climbing down to the bottom of one of these passage ways and a rock – a VERY big rock comes loose and lands on his hand trapping it (and him) between the rock and the…wall. And for the rest of the film, he has to figure out how to get out of this amazingly difficult spot. I didn’t want to like this movie but they did a really good job of showing his transformation as he is trapped for 5 DAYS!! It’s hard to describe how difficult his position is, or how selfish and ego-driven he had been up until this happened. So ego-driven that he filmed his entire ordeal – yes remember it really did happen!
But….it was really good. It was well paced, intense, scary, and you could see some real transformation (metaphysical and physical) so what can I say? I give it 3 paws and a big happy woof!