Stuck????Not if you are the viewer. Review on 127 Hours Movie

Ever watched the show done by Bear Grylls called "Man Vs Wild".You would hardly ever see him having a decent meal(I am pretty sure freshly skinned snakes and raw crabs don't qualify for a fine dining experience), you would see him search out strange places for his body fluid intake and make massive effort to do even an insignificant task such as starting a fire.Then you realize he is trying to depict a situation where you are left alone with nature.It's definitely not the same feeling as you are watching a Cheetah run down a Gazelle from the comfort of your sofa.How would you manage?how would you survive? Watching 127 hours is sure to invoke the same kind of inquisitiveness in you.What if it was me?

Aron Ralstonis a true adventure junkie.How else would you describe a guy who tells nobody where he is going, mostly because he himself doesn't know it exactly.But he sets out nevertheless.The movie starts with him on his bike trying to wrong the guide books on the rugged terrains of a canyon.It is this conquest of his, where he is seeking out the best way to explore the place, not the only way that the guide book prescribes, *literally *lands him into trouble.He gets stuck in a slender crevice with his right hand under a huge rock.He has very little space to move.Has very little food and water to sustain himself and has no chance at all to seek help from someone.

The movie takes the viewer on this extraordinary journey of survival of Aron.He alternates between feelings of hope and restlessness.One moment his sane, experienced mind is trying to get him out of the situation and as time passes, his same mind puts him through hallucinations.He sees himself in happier times, his childhood, his growing up days, him ignoring his parents and the people who care for him.He does get to do a lot of self interrogation.In the meantime as his slim supply of water and food starts to run out and the boulder still, refusing to budge an inch despite all  his best efforts, he somewhat starts to acknowledge his imminent demise, there.Fortunately he comes out of it alive, not before he severs his own arm out of sheer desperation.But then he comes out of that hole, a changed man, a better man, No wonder he thanks the rockwhole heartedly before leaving.

Danny Boyle has surely scored a winner with this.Along with his Slumdog team of Simon Beaufoy and A R Rahman, he has created a truely engaging movie(Far better than Slumdog, for sure).Taking up such an unconventional subject and yet coming up with such an entertaining movie is surely commendable.Rahman's background score(And I am not saying this because he is an Indian) is the soul of the movie.Apart from Hans Zimmer's amazing work in so many of my favorite movies, I have hardly ever noticed such great music which go so far as to define the movie itself.The cinematography is truly breath-taking.That's predictable, one would say, with the backdrop of a Canyon.But still the scenes where the sunlight entering into the crevice, or the shots of the raven taken from underneath are sights to behold.James Franco as Aron Ralston has done a great job as well, although I felt the script doesn't offer the actor much scope actually.

If you are the type who enjoys movies and doesn't just watch them for pleasure or laughs, you will love this one, as I did.