All by his lonesome for '127 Hours'

With the foreboding statement, “Everything’s moving all the time, let’s just not hope today,” Aron Ralston jokingly prophesies his own fate.

The fiercely tenacious adventurer, played by James Franco, encounters life and death while trapped under a massive boulder for 127 hours.

Shot in jarring cinematography by director Danny Boyle, the harsh Utah landscape aptly sets Ralston’s harrowing predicament.

It’s not often that a person in a maddeningly desperate scenario can chronicle one’s own spiraling descent, but that’s precisely what makes this film so enthralling.
It’s the desire for Sunkist, beer and unreturned phone calls that fleshes out Ralston’s humility.

This film illustrates a man at the mercy of nature, which is a force commonly misconstrued as conquerable.

Ralston’s struggles to break free from not only the boulder but also from the isolated shell in which he previously existed exemplify perseverance and the thirst for human contact.

When watching this one-man performance, keep a glass of water on deck.

It sure gets hot at the bottom of his canyon.