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In Reply to: Run to see "Touching the Void." Seldom will posted by tinear on April 01, 2004 at 18:23:23:
It's one of those rare movies where you know pretty much exactly what you're in for, and it's still intensely engaging.Don't know if it's so much a matter of 'bravery,' though. More a supra-human endurance born of necessity. For me the story illustrates what happens in situations where you simply must fight to survive. He wasn't even operating as a person, just a mute, committed, generic 'organism'...that's what I got from his own testimony, and from the theme itself of 'touching the void'...he reached a point where he was no longer an individualized human being with a discernible 'self,' and once you come back from that position, the stuff of everyday life does seem somewhat make-believe.
It's a rare film that has that for a moral. I was also impressed with the fact that he didn't cop out to any "by the grace of God I was saved" mentality. Natural, driven endurance got him through. All the Oprahesque stories of 'overcoming all odds' should be scrapped, and this film should be shown in a loop on morning television: "Now stop whining about how hard it is to live in the shadow of your more successful sister, already."
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in the refusal to give up and just slip away into painlessness.
For the other guy, of course, the attempt to save him after the fall was the HEIGHT of courage. He risked his butt to save his friend as long as possible.
I think it's a shame that the other guy took flak when they got back to the real world...Interesting to note, about their expedition, that the other guy (I'm forgetting names here) is sort of the only person in the world to have successfully scaled that mountain to its peak and descended without a hitch. How awful for him that probably his greatest achievement was wrecked by what turned out to be misplaced guilt. Awful for both of them, really, that they couldn't enjoy what they accomplished.
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