2010 · drama · adventure · biography
127 Hours
Directed by Danny Boyle1h 34m2010
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Our read: 127 Hours (2010) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · adventure · biography entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- extreme
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