127 Hours Review:

I had finally gotten a chance to watch this movie "127 Hours". Believe it or not, I was actually surprised, when I read on the newspaper. They had mentioned that during the DIFF (Dubai International Film Festival), they will be showing a couple of movies almost every single day. However, they had a couple of movies that they were willing to show only once or twice through out the entire time. So this movie was only shown once, but now due to the high number of people wanting to watch it, they have agreed to put it in the cinemas at Mall Of The Emirates. It's located in the Cinestar Cinemas, but there is a catch to it, you will have to stand in a long line for about a couple of hours (between 45 mins and 2 hours), because the tickets are sold out, but they do have some Stand-By Tickets left. It costs 10 Dirhams for University Students and 25 Dirhams for Adults. Children are Not welcome to watch this movie as this movie is rated 18 and above.

 Below here are a bunch of SPOILERS:

As you all know, this movie is based on a true story. So let me just summarize the story really quick. This movie is all about this Daredevil that went to do some stunts in a canyon somewhere in the U.S. He first did some tricks to impress a couple of beautiful girls that he bumped into in the deserted canyons. So after he met with them, this daredevil decided to go and explore on of the caves in the canyon, so as he was going down in some sort of ditch, he slipped on some rocks and fell down into the ditch. But get this, he did NOT fall all the way down, he fell half way down. The reason is because a large boulder fell right beside him, crushing his arm completely. He couldn't move at all. Hell, he didn't really know what to do, because all what he had were the following things: A 500ml bottle of water, a digital camera, a camcorder, a rope for climbing and a normal rope,  a Swiss - Army Pocket knife that was made in China, a Cap with a Light, 4 batteries for the light and a backpack. Now he didn't have a mobile phone with him and of course, he tried screaming like a billion times but of course no one was there to help him. I forgot to mention that this guy was a little selfish, he never really told anyone where he was going and wouldn't even call them back. He never even bothered talking to his own mother, and he never told her, where he was going.
 So, he then tried to chisel the big huge boulder by using the pocket knife, he thought he could like break a part of the boulder but of course that kept making it worse. It was obvious that the pocket knife wouldn't help, because he had decided that he was going to cut his arm off with the pocket knife, but unfortunately it didn't help him because the pocket knife wasn't sharp enough, so it couldn't even cut an apple in half (yes, it was that cheap :P ) and also the bone and the cartilage was in the way.
As the sun was setting on day number 3, he had decided to go to sleep pretty early. So when he went to sleep, he had a dream that night about some crazy weather. He dreamed that it was raining a lot to the extent that a branch had fallen off a tree and that it managed to fall straight into the ditch, where he was and he used that branch to let himself out. After that he swam out and went straight to his car and he drove to his sister's house.
When he reached there, he was trying to apologize to her about something about a wedding, not sure what it was exactly and after that he waited for her to respond but as she was talking, there were no words coming out of her mouth. It was as if she was mute. But in the end he woke up and he realized that was all a dream. A crazy dream, I might say :P
The next day, Day number 4, he took the dream as a sign of some sort of escape plan and he woke up the next day also feeling very thirsty, his water bottle was almost finished, there was about 140ml of water left. He tried using a rope he had and thought he could lift the boulder, but unfortunately that didn't help him that much.  He was actually running out of ideas on how to get rid of that boulder. He tried screaming again but that also didn't help. After he screamed there was a couple minutes of silence in the movie and Dido sang the Acoustic Version of her song "If I Rise". This time A.R. Rahman wasn't singing in that part, Dido was doing a Solo (XTR, remember what Bubbles from Rush Hour 3, "Time for My Solo", LOL :P )

On The 5th Day (The Final Day), he was like that's it, if after all those attempts to remove the boulder didn't help, then there is only 1 solution and since he didn't move his crushed arm in 5 days (127 hours, yes like the name of the movie :P ), he had decided to get rid of his crushed arm.

Note: The Next Line Actually ruins the ENTIRE Movie for you. So, if curiosity is killing the cat, then read on but if you want to wait and watch the move yourself be my guest, you'll love it anyways :)











So he had decided to go ahead and attempt to cut his crushed arm off again, but remember what I said when that didn't help at all. Well what he did was he had to put some pressure on that crushed arm by tying a rope extremely tight around his shoulder (the one closer to the injured arm), then after that, he then tried to break the bone of the broken arm even more, of course that had to hurt like anything. After he broke the bone, the cartilage also broke off and then he took the pocketknife and tried to cut it off again.
Once he made the incision, a lot of blood came out and he was bleeding like anything and also screaming in pain (Who wouldn't be in pain? I might add), after the incision, he even had to cut the nerves from his crushed arm and by then there was so much blood gushing out everywhere. The poor guy was crying with a lot of pain and blood....
Then after he cut off all the nerves, he actually fell down to the ground, so he wrapped his elbow or was it the shoulder with a shirt and he grabbed all the things he had with his 1 arm left and ran outside. Once he was outside, he reached a pond of water and he just sat there and drank it. Even though the pond wasn't really clean, it was filled with dirt.
Finally he went and he had decided to go search and see if there was anyone there to help him. So he kept running and running for a couple of hours and by then he found a family and that family had helped him. They gave him some water because he was thirsty and of course they were extremely shocked to see his state, so they called the other people that were with the family in the group and then they had used the radioed in the Emergency Team and then a helicopter had arrived and took the injured guy in a stretcher and took him to the hospital.
A couple of months later he was released from the hospital and he was known as the greatest person who survived for 5 days without anything. They showed him swimming in a pool but of course there were so many movie mistakes and you could easily see both his arms in the water. They had failed to make it look like he was swimming with 1 arm. They also showed his family cheering for him while he was there swimming. And then he even saw his sister and he was telling her something again but I don't really know what they were talking about.
Then just before the credits, this guy continued doing some extreme sports but he had decided to take it easy and not go too extreme (like go rock climbing on mount everest with just 1 flimsy hook), no he went on a hiking expedition across the North Pole with a group of people. Oh and he now writes down messages and tells everyone where he's going :D
As soon as the credits appeared Dido was singing her song "If I Rise"




Please note: That I have left about 8 paragraphs out because I want everyone to view this movie. There is just so many things I haven't explained yet, but this is the best I can do. Believe it or not, I had actually rewritten this post about several times, I had to make it perfect and I had to make it 8 paragraphs shorter. The rest is for you to watch it and rate it :D :D :D