Absolutely wonderful, gripping, perfectly acted and directed — 127 Hours is one of those films which will shake you up for a few days and probably wake you up at night.
The story begins in 2003 with Aron Ralston, a 27 year old mechanical engineer whose true passion is hiking. We watch him getting ready for a day of solo canyoneering in the mountains of Utah. Aron is a charming and friendly young man, but within the first 10 minutes of the film, we are quickly made to understand that he is a little self absorbed (he does not bother to answer a phone call from his mother) and is even careless (he leaves his apartment underprepared for his hiking trip, leaving his Swiss army knife in his cupboard because he is in such a rush to get started, he has no mobile phone, is low on water and food).
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