THE human body is a wondrous piece of engineering.
Its strength doesn’t come from muscles and bones, but from the heart and brain: the motors which drive ordinary men and women to achieve superhuman feats of endurance.
One such person is Aron Ralston (James Franco), an avid mountain climber who made headlines in 2003 when his arm became trapped under a boulder in the Blue John Canyon, in Utah, and he eventually elected to amputate it with a pen knife to escape.
Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who both won Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire, reunite for this electrifying adaptation of Ralston’s memoir, Between A Rock And A Hard Place.
A visual tour-de-force, complemented by Franco’s fearless performance, it holds us spellbound, not least in the final scenes when Aron lops off his arm.
