Comments on: TIFF ’10 Review: ‘127 Hours’ Is A Thrilling, Life-Affirming Survival Tale & One Of The Best Films Of The Year https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tiff-10-review-127-hours-is-thrilling-20100911/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 16:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Easy A https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tiff-10-review-127-hours-is-thrilling-20100911/#comment-24698 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:07:25 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1126#comment-24698 Only 4 comments on this incredible movie ? come on people wake up! blogging is the heart and soul of the web and Emma Stone deserves applauding. I plead persistently for everyone to go and see it

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tiff-10-review-127-hours-is-thrilling-20100911/#comment-23336 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:29:27 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1126#comment-23336 Both Kaleidoscopic and Immersive, Danny Boyle's latest cinematic tour-de-force wrenches you back and forth between being right there with Aron and floating high in the sky above him. The musical score (Boyle says that audio is 70% of a film's impact (!?!) is no less a film protagonist, and the cinematography is literally in another world, just as the landscape. I saw the film yesterday at TIFF, and listened to Boyle comment afterward — a stupendous 2 hours. The film is indeed a brilliant piece of art. One with a number of messages for us all, the main one being, that empowerment to self-change derives from self-examination, and deference not to fate but to self-determination — we are the makers of our own fate. Boyle outlined to us that the talk has always been how was Aron able to cut off his arm? But Boyle feels strongly that most all of us, once we went through all the steps Aron did, would have reached the same answer, the same resolution, and would have self-determined to get it done.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tiff-10-review-127-hours-is-thrilling-20100911/#comment-23255 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:51:32 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1126#comment-23255 Hmm, maybe Boyle indeed rebounded from the awful, disgusting Slumdog…

]]> By: alex king https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tiff-10-review-127-hours-is-thrilling-20100911/#comment-23249 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:48:16 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1126#comment-23249 Saw this film in Telluride and I felt exactly the same way. Danny Boyle has been waiting his whole life to tell this moving in his distinct visual vernacular and those cuts of the film were almost as deep as the ones in the arm. Kudos to (my favorite) James Franco in his transformation into a character who you first sort of loathe due to his wistful adventurism to one of total determination to survive and "go back".

It was an astonishing movie. My favorite and FAR better than Inception, Black Swan, and Never Let Me Go.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/tiff-10-review-127-hours-is-thrilling-20100911/#comment-23245 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:36:25 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1126#comment-23245 Nice review. You're really pounding them out. Excellent TIFF coverage so far. Cheers.

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