127 Hours: Documentary

I watched 127 hours, which is a documentary about Aron Ralston, a man who was trapped in a canyon in Utah. He was by himself climbing the canyons and was trapped by a falling boulder which suspended him underground. The film shows his 127 hours without food or water, where Aron had to drink his own urine in order to survive. In order to release himself from the canyon, Ralston had to cut his arm off with a pocket knife. The film shows the cutting of his arm in gruesome detail which shows the audience how horrifying his experience was. The documentary was very vivd in detail which added to the suspense of the audience, and created a sense of pathos. The audience felt the same fear and adrenaline that Alston had felt during his time in the canyons. When Ralston yelled for help, and kept screaming for someone to save him, the audience really got a sense of how alone and stranded he was. Overall, I thought the documentary had very disturbing yet impactful details while appealing to pathos which engaged the audience in a very suspenseful way.