Movie post

The article I found is reviewing a movie called “Stranded”, a documentary about how team spirit must remain intact in the face of a catastrophe. There is a narrator named Nando, a man who has lost his sister and mother does not give a very bright outlook for the future. The documentary remembers a plane crash in the Andes in 1972, and relives the struggles of the 16 survivors of the 42 who crashed. The movie is an in depth summary of the plane crash and is completely true. That fact makes the movie all the more chilling due to the horrible events and eventual cannibalism that takes place in the movie. When the plane crashed in the Valley of Tears glacier those on the plane (who survived) had to survive with anything they could do. At first the problem was food and the survivors had nowhere to turn but to the bodies of their friends and loved ones dead from the crash. One survivor describes it as “Things that I don’t think any animal is capable of doing- eating its own species”. The survivors not only were stranded but search parties had to be called off due to bad weather and so they had to go find civilization. The physical journey that the victims had to travel was over mountains and through treacherous conditions. Most of the movie is shot without much shadow. The vastness of the area they need to travel is amazing and most of the movie gives you a cynical dark view and you feel there isn’t much hope for the survivors.
“Mortal terror is outweighed by an overwhelming sense of wonder and personal discovery, as a ferocious will to live, not only for themselves but for one another, propels them to perform superhuman feats while exhausted and near starvation”. These people stuck on a mountain are a great lesson of human perseverance. The sheer will to live can make you do almost anything to survive. “Stranded” is a movie shot mostly in bluish black and white colors with faces and bodies usually blurred like in a blizzard. This may give a feeling of being lost, not quite being able to grasp at the real. The survivors decide to try and get to people because no help is coming. Their journey is hard but when they finally get to a small town you feel the end of the journey and almost want to cry. The survivors are airlifted out of the mountains and arrive home. As the movie ends you hear “no laws, just habits and practices accepted by the group.” The long movie draws to a close and we see the massage of togetherness has sewn itself into every part of this documentary.

Holden, Stephen. "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane THat Crashed In the Mountains." 22 Octobed 2008 23 Oct 2008 .