On my recent visits to the library, I encountered a film that I've always wanted to watch. 127 Hours is a spectacular true story about a man who went to seek adventure in the wild, alone, without telling anyone. I think you can pretty much sum up what's going to happen after that. He emerged after five long days without an arm and dangerously dehydrated. The film spends a considerable amount of time engaging the audience with the character to show what exactly had happened during his time alone in the wild.
This is a true story of Aron Ralston portrayed by James Franco in this plot driven film. The question imposed in my mind was how is the director (Danny Boyle) going to fulfill the plot, considering that 90% of the film has only one character on screen?
What they did was clever, you'd expect to go to the cinemas expecting to see James Franco cut off his arm off with a dull knife for a considerable amount of time, but instead that is not the case. That scene was under a minute long. I was quiet fascinated by how they used juxtapositioning on that scene, they used a feel good song on an un-relating scene. The film is filled with flash backs of himself showing how he neglects his family and how he would change all of that if he had a second chance, the film almost has no dialogue.
The camera angles used where the most interesting part to me, the character's habitat was a very claustrophobic place and seemed impossible to achieve some shots using a very large camera rig. The director even mentioned that some shots had to be filmed on the actual location of the event, which was in the middle of Canyons in Utah. He stated that it took at least 2 hours to transport the cast, crew and equipment by helicopters to get to the actual location, though some of the footage was filmed at the studio.
Below are some of the screen shots I took that show good elements of camera angles :
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