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Title: Alive (1993)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ethan Hawke | ... | Nando Parrado | |
| Vincent Spano | ... | Antonio Balbi | |
| Josh Hamilton | ... | Roberto Canessa | |
| Bruce Ramsay | ... | Carlitos Páez | |
| John Newton | ... | Antonio 'Tintín' Vizintín (as John Haymes Newton) | |
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David Kriegel | ... | Gustavo Zerbino |
| Kevin Breznahan | ... | Roy Harley | |
| Sam Behrens | ... | Javier Methol | |
| Illeana Douglas | ... | Lilliana Methol | |
| Jack Noseworthy | ... | Bobby François | |
| Christian J. Meoli | ... | Federico Aranda | |
| Jake Carpenter | ... | Alberto Artuna | |
| Michael DeLorenzo | ... | Rafael Cano (as Michael De Lorenzo) | |
| José Zúñiga | ... | Fraga, the Mechanic | |
| Danny Nucci | ... | Hugo Díaz | |
In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Given the knowledge from the onset of the movie that the story and characters are real, we are plunged into a world where man must choose whether or not he wants to survive and live to see the world as he knows it once more. The reality i felt when watching this movie was how easily we take for granted things like food to eat, clean clothes to wear, and warmth that comes from blankets and heaters. By the middle of the movie (when watching it last night after nearly 10 years) i was aghast at the sheer strength of some of all of the people that survived the initial crash of the actual plane. And when the deciding moment arrives where they must choose whether they are willing to eat human flesh to survive and find a way beyond the Andes, I found i asked myself 'what would you do?'. The answer is, i don't know. i truly don't. This movie makes you realise how precious life is, and how we should never take anything for granted. How we should be thankful of all that we have, and yet how easy it is to lose all that just by a bad twist of fate. Call this movie what you will, I think it's a must-see for everyone because it really happened. There are lessons to be learned, morals to be recognised, and questions to be asked and somehow solved. Each person/character you will encounter in this movie is unique which makes it all the more worthwhile to watch. Because you find yourself sympathetic with the viewpoints of all the men and women in the movie yet at the same time questioning what decision you would make if you were in their place. Maybe we never will know or understand what they went through. But by watching this movie and reading the book, it will help us become wiser people and possibly open our minds to the endless enigma that is life, God, and the vastness and emptiness of the world that lies not so beyond our reach.