Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by free.ranger (A) on May 04, 2019 at 21:19:26

If you want to know what it is to die alone in austerity, with absolutely nothing of comfort in sight, but to not actually do it, then this is one of the finest films ever. Its terror in the extreme, but with struggle and that glimmer of optimistic hope that always accompanies it.

Austerity in environment, predicament, story, cast, and script. Any more and the impact would have been softened. The impact is what makes this movie work.

Mikkelson gives an award worthy performance as a pilot stranded in the ice and mountains north of the Circle, at first waiting for rescue, then deciding that he has to walk out.

There is another cast member. A helicopter picked up his radio signal and came to rescue in a storm. It crashed with two aboard; one died, the other badly injured.

So now he has to walk out pulling a sled with the chopper survivor in it, and the real story begins here. Heart versus survival. Which wins? Which should?

Filmed in Iceland, the scenery is stunningly beautiful in a terrorizing sort of way. If good movies are supposed make you think and feel, then this is superb. Available on Comcast pay-per-play; don't past it up. No cold drinks for this one.