Touching the Void leaves you emotionally and physically spent, and grateful it was only a movie, not a mountain, you had to endure.
Touching the Void
The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive.
2003 · 1h 46m · R
Action, Adventure, Documentary, Drama
Directed by
Kevin Macdonald
Overview
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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Awesome and harrowing.
As a meditation on extreme human endeavour, character, friendship and the mysteries revealed by facing death, it provides much food for thought.
Most movies of this type re-create the action far from the actual scene of the crime, but Macdonald has invented a new subgenre: a docudrama in which the docu and the drama are equally authentic.
The facts drop away, and it becomes impossible not to read the movie symbolically -- as a journey to the center of the earth, or farther still.
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