Sunday, January 8, 2012

"127 Hours"

*****


Incredible movie: visually stunning, perfectly acted, emotionally resonant, intense, and yes, graphic and upsetting. Franco must carry this movie on his shoulders; as mostly a one man show it would fly or die based on what he could do with it. (Not to discredit Danny Boyle's intense, awesomely visual directing style or A.R. Rahman's alternately throbbing/haunting score. Both are pitch perfect.) He is simply incredible, its a performance I'll never forget, and the film soars to almost ethereal heights of humor, despair, horror, and redemption. There are some moments that are hard to watch, but you MUST see this movie. You may never forget it!

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