1993 · adventure · drama · history
Alive
Directed by Frank Marshall2h 7m1993
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
Our read: Alive (1993) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded adventure · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- epic-stakes
Watching Alive tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Alive feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a true survival ordeal that tests what people will do to live.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot face starvation horror or alpine disaster imagery tonight.
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