After seeing the movie 127 Hours, starring James Franco who played Aron Ralston. I was completely amazed at Mr. Ralston’s incredible will to live demonstrated by the events and actions that occurred.
To be honest, for me there is a conflict of awe and disappointment from the events that took place. After watching a recent encore airing of the Dateline NBC focus piece on Mr. Ralston’s ordeal, it suddenly hit me that on top of everything else, he repeatedly experienced some extremely good luck.
The following opinion piece could be considered movie spoilers. If you’ve seen the movie, you’re good to go. If you’re planning on seeing the movie, go away and come back later!
The Disappointment
In the opening scenes of 127 Hours and ensuing events in the movie, it’s made clear Mr. Ralston’s free-spirited mindset that he lived by. It was this mindset that also put him in his predicament. I was talking to a climbing buddy and when I mentioned the movie, he seemed to have a disdain for it because of what he called “flippant actions” that led up to the entrapment of our ill-fated outdoors-man.
In the movie we were treated to scenes that set the stage for his mentality. He had this classic and ignorant mind-set we see every day, and that’s the “It won’t happen to me” belief. I’ve always been dumbfounded by that thought. Sure, statistically, many bad things won’t happen to you. But the newspapers and TV newscasts deliver information that says that something bad has to happen to someone. And it happens every day.
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