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After numerous Awards Nominations, including BEST International Feature as well as Makeup & Hair at the Academy Awards this year, Roxy Striar & John give their First Time Reaction, Commentary, Breakdown, and Full Spoiler Review for the harrowing adaptation of the True Life Story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 that was lost over the Andes Mountains in 1972. Directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage / El orfanato, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Impossible) and starring newcomers, Enzo Vogrincic as Numa Turcatti, Agustín Pardella as Fernando 'Nando' Parrado, Matías Recalt as Roberto Canessa, Esteban Bigliardi as Javier Methol, and MORE.
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Crazy thing about this movie is that they cut out a lot stuff to make it easier to watch. Stuff like them vomiting for days when they first started eating the dead.
I remember seeing the version from the 90's called "Alive" it starred Ethan Hawk. It was really good one as well!
its a real story btw. not just fiction.
Finally you guys!! Since this movie came out the only and great reaction i was expecting was yours!!❤❤🎉🎉
Bayona,el director fue escrupulosamente fiel y respetuoso con la verdadera historia. Es la primera vez que todos, supervivientes y familiares de los fallecidos están de acuerdo.Trabsjo durante diez años directamente con el autor del libro"la sociedad de la nieve"amigo íntimo de los supervivientes,y directamente con ellos.Ha cuidado hasta el último detalle.Los actores han rodado un situ,y si veis como se ha hecho la película es impresionante, estuvieron a dieta y rozando en la montaña. Es alucinante la historia, los supervivientes son personas increíbles y tienen un sentido de la vida que si los escuchas te envuelven de paz.Grscias por verla en el idioma original, que no es castellano si no el castellano que se hablaba en Uruguay en los 70, hasta eso ha cuidado Bayona.J.A Bayona es un director español con películas impresionantes como el orfanato,o lo imposible y jurasik world.
The fact this movie didn’t get 1 Oscar is embarrassing for the academy
I was so disappointed!
At this point I don’t even look at the Oscar’s as a merit for excellence. They drop the ball every year, so I’m not shocked at all.
It should have at the very least been nominated for cinematography, score, sound, adapted screenplay, director... and should have definitely won for makeup... to keep up the continuity of their transformation as time passed... imho way better than "Poor Things"... and should have won best foreign film. In Spain it for 12 of the 13 Goyas is was nominated for.
@@SmileyAdventures just because you disagree with a decision and feel like something else shouldve won doesnt mean they "dropped the ball".
@@sugarbomb1346shut the fook up. you were probably rooting for Barbie to win best picture
To answer Roxy's question, no, these actors are not stars, matter of fact, many of them had never had acting jobs before this movie, so they're all pretty much new to this. Bayona said that it was more important to them to cast people who had the same energy and spirit as the real people of the story than to cast big names. Personally, I loved every single performance, they crushed it.
It's a FANTASTIC cast and another Masterful move from Bayona and co.
Great performances throughout. Enzo Vogrincic (Numa) and Agustin Pardella (Nando) were the highlights for me.
Yeah, Bayona refused to cast any big names and insisted on only casting actors from Uruguay and Argentina in order to make the film as authentic as possible, with actors that spoke the way the real people did. I loved that decision... when I saw the trailer, being a history buff, to see it as it would have been was like having a window into history and that was everything! The casting took a long time because they wanted to find actors that looked like each of the counterparts they were playing, and, as you said, could pull off their personalities. Amazing casting and BRAVO to all the latin American representation. They all did an amazing job. You could feel everything! And that's what it's all about. Also says a lot of Bayona as a director, to be able to get such incredible performances from his cast. Just wow! Can't say enough. Masterful!
@@annakmenesesYes, my friend from colombia said they actually do speak with an accent too, he was really excited.
@@lafatte24they spoke with the rioplatense accent. They had a coach and the survivors around them to make sure they didn’t bring any modern words to their act. They were allowed to improvise a lot, so having a young cast could bring some words that were not used at the time.
I love that they chose Numa, the last person to die, so that all the people who died had a voice. 🖤
Its was a brilliant decision , it gives a voice to the departed and not just the living. Also it’s a great emotional device to connect with the characters as you pull for them to survive
The survivors all said that his death was the motivation for them going for rescue. He motivated them and kept their spirits up when he was alive.
And didn’t expect the narrator to die
Was not a choice , it was true.
@@sanvilla2581 we know the events are true but to put the film in his POV is a choice
The milk of human kindness....the man who they saw on horseback was a cattleman who rode 50 miles to get help, at first the Police thought he was drunk it was so improbable, he was 43 at the time, he became like a father to them and died aged 93...
Nando, Roberto and some others were also pallbearers at his funeral
Right, not cannibalism, necrophagia, and discussed for days on end. Numa ate after many days and he had already lost over 15 kg when he finally caved, as he was taking part in all sorts of expeditions and group work. Choosing him to narrate is a masterful homage to those who couldn't leave the mountain.
It is cannibalism AND necrophagia. Cannibalism means eating members of your own species, which they did. It is also necrophagia (eating the dead) AND anthropophagia (eating humans). It's three things at once
The two terms aren't mutually exclusive. It's technically cannibalistic necrophagy.
believe it or not…these actors were not super famous actors . for some of them this is their first acting role. some of them weren’t even actors before this project. the directors wanted unknown actors, he didn’t want any stars in the cast
the real survivors actually made a cameo in the movie
- the real Nando was the one who opened the door for the actors who played Nando, Susy, and his mother when they were entering the airport in the beginning.
- the real Roberto was the doctor behind the actor who played Roberto when they were entering the hospital in the ending.
- the real Carlitos was the old guy who read the names of the survivors, "Carlitos Miguel Páez, my son" as his dad.
- and last Numa’s nephew was the older gentleman who walking at night and said hello when he was going inside his house, Numa’s family allowed the production to use their real house for the film scene.
they also frequently have dinners with enzo and affectionately refer to him as numa :(
- Daniel Fernandez (the Strauch cousin without a beard) is in the church scene
- Coche Inciarte (R.I.P) is at the bar
- Moncho Sabella and Antonio Vizintín are at the airport
- And Gustavo Zerbino was in some cut scenes as a rugby coach
I believe they said that the man walking outside Numa's house is Numa's actual brother.
@@marbella135 it’s Numa’s nephew.
@@ailem2707 wow that’s chilling ok thanks for the info 🙏
WE have 14 of the 16 survivors still alive and doing very well.❤ Uruguay 🇺🇾❤️
"Carlitos Miguel Paez, my son" The man who reads the names at the end is Carlitos himself.
Some fun facts:
-The man that holds the door open at the airport is Fernando Parrado, one of the survivors that went down the mountain.
-The person reading the names of the survivors at the end is Carlitos Páez another survivor, portraying his father Carlos Páez Vilaró, who continued the search for them after the official search was called off.
-One of the doctors at the end is also a survivor, Roberto Canessa the other guy that went down the mountain.
As a Uruguayan the depth of meaning this story holds for us is 6-it stands as one of the most compelling tales of survival and perseverance.
This is the new "you know that Viggo broke his toe on this shot??"
All of them are still friends. Javier Methol, who lost his wife Liliana, was the first to pass away some years ago. He was the oldest. And last year, Coche Inciarte passed away after a long illness.He was the one putting some grease on his friend's hair before the rescue and the one on the bed showing his skinny legs at the hospital.But Bayona showed him the movie first because he was already very ill. So, there are only 14 survivors at the present. One more thing: the ones in charge of cutting the meat were cousins, not brothers. There were 4 cousins travelling, but one of them died in the crash.
All of them carried on their lives, their projects, their careers, etc, though Carlitos, who was the youngest survivor with 18 years of age, underwent an awful PTS. He started with alcohol, then drugs, but fortunately he has been sober for almost 40 years, has a great family and travels around the world performing motivational comferences. Please, watch the cameos. Greetings from Argentina.
*here are some facts:* The survivors said this movie is so close to what happened in real life and they are so grateful for the respect its was made from and also the person reading the names of the survivors at the end is Carlitos Paez another survivor, portraying his father Carlos Paez Vilaró, who continued the search for them after the official search was called off. This is one of my favorite movies of 2024
This is one of, if not, my favorite movie ever! I always have a heard time when people ask me "what is your favorite movie"...I always say, idk, there are so many good films... then I usually say "Aliens"... but now, Society of the Snow for sure. Such a solid masterpiece in storytelling.
A crucial fact is that the actors spend so much time with the real survivors, every real survivor pretty much adopted the actor that was portraying themselves and the rest spend time with the families of those who didn’t make it back. They were all so included in the making of this master piece.
quick cigs and fire clarification!
Javier Methol's family had a tobacco company and he was taking with him a full stash because of the political and economic context of Chile at the time.
They tried to start a fire for warmth and even cook the meat but the cold conditions would not let them,
same goes for the signal fire, they didn't have enough flammable objects to cause a big fire.
they also said that cooking the meat actually depleted its nutrients so they didn't do it for long!
They also made the decision to eat the meat raw to not lose any of the fat (extra calories) in the cooking process. To get more nutrients, like calcium, the survivors also scraped the bones... that said, they suffered quite severe digestive problems, like extreme constipation because of the diet they were restricted to.
"The past changes the most" Ask different people about an event they shared and you are going to get different stories most of the time. I think this has to do with this expression. The book collected the story of the sixteen survivors. Each of them experienced the same situation in a different way.
It’s almost comical, the way the survivors start discussing and contradicting each other when they are asked about the event (nothing too outrageous, though), just goes to show how much personal experiences and feelings affect the way we build our memories. It’s fascinating.
Examples (rough interpretations of interactions in their group interview of 2012, and roberto and pedro’s interview in 2017)
Fito: “We always knew they weren’t coming for us”
Gustavo: “Numa, Maspons and I wouldn’t have waited 10 days to make that first big expedition if we thought they weren’t coming for us”
Carlos: “God was always there, and prayer was very important”
Fito: “I joined the prayers because otherwise I’d feel left out, not because I thought they did something”
Javier: “Liliana died in the worst way possible”
Eduardo: “I understand it was horrible for you, but I almost died in the avalanche too, and it would have been a very good, peaceful death”
Alvaro: “there were three of us sleeping in the hammocks above the ground”
Roy: “okay, but i only recall seeing one after the avalanche”
Roberto: “It was a big dilemma, and there were at least three layers: one, it was protein, fat and carbs; but two, they were my friends; but three, if I was the dead one, I would have wanted them to use me”
Pedro: “It was an obvious answer, and I don’t know why we had to take so much time to make the decision”
Lo dijo uno de ellos, existen 16 montañas no solo una
@@ailem2707 also thinking of javier thinking for years that they ate liliana and finally bringing it up and telling them he forgave them for it only to be told that they had to move her body out of sight because they feared that he would go mad. they never ate her.
One of the most heart-breaking facts is what happened to Carlos Valeta. He was flown out of the plane during the crash but survived. He tried to get to the group and even they could see him trying to reach them but during his effort he fell deep in the snow and suffocated. There is a very subtle reference to this in the film when they are trying to talk to the dying pilot and studently part of that group runs to the other side and you can hear in the original language people shouting to Valeta to come to them.
The scene was filmed, but cut for time. I hope they include it in the director's cut. And I hope that's released in theaters.
@@annakmeneses Thats right… Hopefully they will.
@@marbella135Bayona said on twitter if the movie is number one for Netflix ratings, he would release the extended version. Last week it was number six and this week it moved to number two.
@@maritzanav212 oh wow! Thank you for the info. Hope he does regardless!
The cattle rancher, Sergio Catalan, lived out in the middle of nowhere. He'd heard of a plane crash in the Andes through an acquaintance around the time the crash happened, but pretty much forgot about it until he read the note Nando had written. He was shocked, since he initially thought the two of them were either lost hikers and also thought they might be drunk (based on how weirdly they ran/walked and their slow movements, since all of the weakened survivors had developed an odd gait having to walk in deep snow for 2+ months). Catalan didn't have a phone or vehicle, so he had to ride 10 hours to get help.
The actor who plays Fito Strauch, the one that you said was your favorite character, was working on a mechanical workshop when he was cast. And he is IMPRESSIVE just with his eyes, without talking.
This movie broke my heart. I knew nothing going in. Numa is an absolute saint. Everyone who made the venture to get help said that he was the huge push they needed to go seek help themselves and not just wait. They would have never survived without Numa.
Please remember these were well educated, catholic, sports playing, healthy young men and a private, air force small aircraft flight, not a commercial one
Nando made a point once commenting how differently it might have gone under other conditions, other kind of people flying. Also, absolutely no one with the mountain rescue teams even considered there would be survivors. They were looking for the wreckage and the bodies. So the real miracle is to have 14 people still alive today after such tremendous accident and ordeal.
I love the phrase "knowing that the past changes the most" because everytime you remember something that thing you're remembering changes. With the passage of time it becomes foggy and it loses details and it can even mix with dreams or other stuff and you don't even notice.
The reason they have their shirts off in some scenes is because when the sun is out it can actually be very warm in the Andes.
Casi 25 grados? Y de noche eran menos 20.....una locura
I am Uruguayan and I know each and every detail of this story, and I can assure not only myself, but also the survivors themselves, that the film is 90% real as it all happened. Only details were omitted, but the story is faithfully reflected in the film. Brilliant work by Bayona..
When the survivors were introduced to the cast which would portray them and Enzo Vogrincic told them he would be Numa in the film, the survivors all got emotional and hugged him together. In their interviews the survivors share how important Numa was to them and the group's survival. His death was what gave them the push to go on the big expedition.
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Most of the young actors had not movie experience so far. Some of them are basically theater actors and a bunch have made some tv or movie work, but the fact that they had about two months of rehearsals and that they took so many days to film in a harsh setting helped them to develop a strong friendship between them, which you can feel translated to the way they represented this very moving story. Some of they have said in interviews that the fact they were suffering from cold and hunger (yes, they lost weight through the chronological filming) did half of the job for them to focus on the emotional aspects of their acting.
It was such a smart move by Bayona to film the beginning of the movie last, so they built the bond between the actors during the chronological filming after the crash, so when they had to act that they were friends and a team (at the beginning of the movie), they already really were, since they had gone through so much together.
The story is well known in South America, to me they're super human... Honestly!! Roberto Canessa performed one of his first heart surgeries on my little cousin , she was 2 days old when he operated on her.. another thing is , my mom used to work in the same Hospital as him (Sanatorio 4) for several years. My mom also told me how she would take me and my sisters to a park called Parque Roosvelt and Roberto would be there jogging. I have a friend who knows several survivals cause she volunteers in a library founded by the mothers of those who didn't make it out, it's called Nuestros Hijos, she says Carlitos Paez is an amazing human being, he is always in good spirits.
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This is hands down the best movie I have ever seen and makes me incredibly grateful for the life I live. So much emotion!
Yep I wish All reactors on youtube need to react to it watch it
I know, right? In one of the other reaction videos (and I've been watching them all) , one guy was like "I am never complaining about my life ever again! " lol... and that's not necessarily the point, but it definitely puts things into perspective... and as hard a watch as it was... man, it was also so inspiring. What we can accomplish as a society when we chose to act to take care of each other... everyone playing their part. Just beautiful, and a much needed message these days. 💕
Uruguayan here. Yes, it was a big thing throughout the world at that time, and some press made a dirty thing about them having to eat the dead. It was very sad and stressful for the survivors and the families of the dead. Numa is the narrator because Bayona wanted to give a voice to those who didn't come back. The survivors and families expressed that this movie was healing and brought them closer. Best reaction I saw, very intelligent and interesting insights.
The Strauch weren't brothers, they were cousins. In fact Adolfo "Fito" and Eduardo Strauch were double cousins, that is cousins on both sides. There was a fourth cousin, Daniel Shaw, who fell to his death when the airplane crashed and lost its tail and wings.
That phrase Numa wrote on the paper is a Bible verse, Jesus told his disciples forth telling his crucifixion: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”. John 15:13
You should watch interviews with the real survivor, they are very vocal about it, also they used to visit the man on the horse who helped them, his name was Sergio Catalán and passed away I believe last year.
Some of the real survivors made a cameo on this film too, is one truly remarkable story about human resilience, will to survive, team work, and faith.
Great reaction!
The film is a cinematic masterpiece, not only because of the aesthetics, art, photography, make-up or script, but because they managed to tell the story as real and truthful as possible, to the point that the survivors actively participated in it and say that when they see it they relive in their minds everything that happened. It is wonderful the way in which Bayona manages to show the harshness of what happened with an artistic touch and a strong emotional charge and for the first time not only highlighting the figure of the survivors as heroes but also those who died and did not make it out of the mountain, which is why Numa's voice as narrator is so important. Each of the actors met the real person they were playing and most of them managed to create a bond with them, moving from interpretation to reality and giving the importance it deserves to what each survivor felt, because as they have already said, each one remembers the mountain in a unique way. THANKS FOR REACTING!
Two years after the accident, a British journalist released a book called "Alive" which covers the whole ordeal. The survivors themselves have said that the book is not really true to the facts and to the roles each of them had in the situation. This book was the basis of a 1993 movie (also called "Alive") which is a Hollywood production, starring Ethan Hawke as Nando.
Pablo Vierci, who wrote the 2009 book, was actually a friend of some of the survivors before the accident happened. He interviewed all of them and parts of the book are actually written as first person accounts. This book is the basis for this movie. Vierci himself filmed a cameo as a journalist in the end of the movie, but the scene was cut.
Yeah, some of the survivors have said they really don't care for "Alive"... they felt it was too Hollywood-tized and appreciated so much the thoughtful way in which Society of the Snow told their story. The one character in Alive that I felt bad for, the mechanic they make look like a crazy person... never thought much of it until I saw an interview with his son... he was upset about how disrespectfully (in his opinion) they had portrayed his father... in society of the snow, he is Roque, the guy who was telling them about how turbulence affected the plane. He was the only surviving member of the crew, but died during the avalanche. Eventually his son, as an adult, was able to talk with the survivors, and ask them about his father's final days. He had a concussion, but wasn't the madman he was portrayed as in Alive... for entertainment value. He was smart, thoughtful, and like the others, did what he could to help out.
Apologies if someone has already said this but regarding the cigarettes:
There was a shortage in Chile at the time so many brought plenty for the trip but also Javier Methol & Pancho Abal worked for a tobacco company and were planning on I guess trying to make the most of the shortage for business purposes while in Chile. So yeah that’s why they had so many cigarettes
Their family owns the tobacco company
17:26 They knew about the radio battery because there was one crew member still alive who told them about it, but he was delirious with fever after the crash and sometimes what he said wasn't correct. And all the boys were very intelligent, they studied medicine, agronomy, law, engineering. It was a small group of very intelligent people with a lot of desire to live.
Yep, that was Roque who was the steward and the one who provided the exposition about the weather conditions in the Andes.
John deeply invested, but also deeply concerned about Roxy: “it’s okay, it’s okay” 😭
I know, it was very sweet. It is a hard watch, but also so inspiring.
Interesting data: - Many of the survivors give motivational talks, they are all renowned professionals. They have a foundation, and it's wonderful to hear their talks and how human they are, how deeply they learned from this terrible experience. - The man who saw Nando and Roberto is called Sergio Catalán and they became good friends with all of them and visited him every year, they helped him when he had a health problem. - A sanctuary was made where the plane fell and some survivors go there with their families. - There is the hollywood version of this story called: "Alive" and Ethan Hawke act like Nando(1993) This current version is more human and shows the importance of everyone, even those who did not return. - You can't make a fire in the snow, it's all wet, and there was nothing to burn and the little clothing they had was for warmth.
To answer some of your questions:
The film was partially filmed up at the Valley of Tears where the fuselage actually came to rest. JA Bayona went up there and filmed things for the backdrop of Mt. Seler (named by Nando Parrado in honour of his father), plus the surround for the Andes. The sound mixer also recorded things like the wind and how the snow sounds up there to be used in this film. So it is by and large authentic to the experiences these boys went through.
As for Numa Turcatti. Numa was the one righteous man we see once in a lifetime. He was a law student who was about to take the bar to become a lawyer. His arguments against eating the dead was based on both his spiritual beliefs, and his studies in law.
Most of these men in the rugby team belonged to the Old Christians who played for Stella Maris College in Montevideo.
The actor playing Numa is Enzo Vogrinzic, actually lost about 50 pounds during the filming. He went from 150 to 103lbs. All the actors were on a closely monitored diet to fully depict the trials the actual men went through up there. As one's body begins to diminish, they become somewhat old as they no longer have the suppleness of the muscle they had. The protein in the bodies gave them nothing but lean energy, but not carbohydrates we all need to sustain us.
As for Numa dying. He was the voice of the dead, the ones who didn't return. The ones who survived are still close to this day. There are 14 left as Javier Methol (the man who lost his wife) died in 2014, and Jose Luis "Coche" Inciarte (the one who needed help walking) died in 2023. They still gather on rescue day, or as they call it "rebirth day." They have all gone back up to the crash site many times since 1972. One of them, Eduardo Strauch, is part of an adventure team that takes sivilians up to the crash site. All that remains up there is wreckage as the remander of the fuselage was burned and the bodies buried in a communal grave.
Roberto Canessa (med student) and Nando Parrado (man who lost his sister and mother) have been called exceptional in what they did. Mountaineers and alpinists from Ed Viesters (summited Everest five times) and others have called what they did as amazing considering they had no equipment and no training. Also not to forget their physical condition.
As for the long-term effects of what happened. Many of them do suffer from a form of PTSD, but with the other survivors they have help and support.
The one thing I have to say about these boys. If you remember from the beginning of the film, Numa's voice over stated many of these boys had known each other when they were young. Many of their fathers knew each other as many played rugby for Stella Maris College as teens/young men. These men formed lasting bonds that have survived to this day due in large part to their faith, and their love....always love for each other. And at the end of this story as it still is 52 years later, it is all about the love they had for each other and the love they had for the ones who didn't return. This story is about the power of love. Could we all wish to have the same spirit these men had and have today. I've been with this story since reading "Alive" back in 1976. I have followed these men since then. The one thing I have learned from them is not to squander away your life as you might not know what as Roberto Canessa has said, "When your plane will crash."
Some info about where they all are today. Roberto Canessa (med student and one of the ones who made the walk) is now a world reknown pediatric cardio thorasic surgeon. He operates on fetuses inside their mother's wombs in order for them to be born healthy and life their lives as they should. He has won many awards for it including many in the United States.
Nando Parrado (one who lost his sister and mother) is an vintner, and former race car drivier and who is now a motivational speaker.
Many of them indluding Gustavo Zerbino (other med student) and Adolfo "Fito" Strauch have become long term associates for Stella Maris College in the rugby program. The same one they came from. Javier Methol (man who lost his wife) was a tobacco grower and successful buisness man. Moncho Sabella lives in Argentina and is a successful agriculturalist. A lot of the others have gone into other things including public speaking as has Carlitos Paez (guy whose father was looking for him.)
Some trivia: Nando Parrado can be seen in the airport opening the door for his "family" and his portrayer, Agustin Pardella. Roberto Canessa can be seen aiding his film portrayer, Matias Recalt when they get to the hospital after the rescue. Coche Inciarte can be seen directly behind Numa Turcatti actor, Enzo Vogrinzic, in the pub scene with Gaston and Pancho. Ramon Sabella can be seen in the airport as an extra. Carlitos Paez (guy who made the sleeping bag) played his own father, Carlos Paez Vilaro who didn't rest until his son was back safe. Juaquin Turcatti (Numa's actual brother) is seen in the night outside the home Numa grew up in. Those were Numa's actual books he used to study from. Gustavo Zerbino is seen at the beginning as a rugby coach.
As for the lack of fire, the air up there is too thin. One can't sustain fire. The suitcases were used to build the wall to keep out the cold. They also needed to use those resources for other things including the seat cushions from the plane for blankets.
As for the actors. Most of them are Argentinian/Uruguayan actors who most had never done acting before. Some only have very small credits to their names, though most of them came from the theatre. The film was shot in sequence. Meaning, they filmed it in order of the actual events, though the events back in Montevideo including the opening rugny game, were filmed after the actors regained the weight and had formed their own society. They'd become actual friends and brothers outside the film. Most of these young men grew up knowing the details of the real events. They grew up knowing this story. Therefore they wanted to give honour to the story of the Society.
The man on the horse's name was Sergio Catalan. A muleteer who was a hearder. He lived up there with his son and wife. Catalan didn't fear Nando or Roberto, that was the reason for the rock/pencil. After reading Nando's note, he rode for ten hours on horseback to get down to Los Maitenes, Chile. He rode ten hours back, then guided Nando and Roberto down to a place where Sergio and and son could cross on horseback to bring them to his home to feed them. Funny story. At some point the guys had all gone up to the Valley of Tears to visit their friends. Nando and Roberto were on their way back on a buss carrying them all, when they saw a man on horseback. They stopped the bus and got off running to Sergio yelling, "We are lost. We are lost. We need help." Later on in the 2000s, Sergio needed hip surgery. Roberto through a fellow doctor, found out and helped fundraise to get Sergio his surgery.
As for Eduardo Strauch going back up with Pena, to Eduardo he is going to visit his friends. He feels comfort being up there. At one point when Pena was up there, he found Eduardo's wallet and returned it to him. Fito, his cousin, stated when they took off in the helicopters, he immediately felt a nostalgia, as if he were leaving his home and going back to uncertainty. They all find comfort up there. Roberto Canessa's daughter once said to him, "Daddy, take us up to the mountain." Roberto did and she then said, "Daddy, we were born up here. If you hadn't survived, we (her siblings) wouldn't be here."
In summation, this film was made to remember those who died. This is the first time the names of the dead have been used as the relatives of the dead refused to allow their loved ones names to be used in other productions: "Survive" 1976, and "Alive" 1993. Both films were largely the tabloid version of the story. This film is a dedication from the living to the dead. It is their voice Numa speaks for.
One last thing. If you liked this film, might I suggest "The Impossible" also directed by Bayona. That is the true story of the tsunami that hit Indonesia after the earthquake in 2004. It stars a baby Tom Holland, Naomi Watts, and Ewan McGregor.
*Joaquin Turcatti is Numa's nephew.
*Gustavo Zerbino's part was cut from the movie.
* Rafael Echavarren, one of the guys that were on the "hammocks" would say, "My name is Rafael Echavarren, and I will return". He was one of the last to die on the mountain. A month after the rescue, his dad went up to bring his body back, and was detained by the authorities because he didn't have the proper documents to transport the body, but he was finally released and was able to bury his son in Montevideo. He was the only one buried back home.
* The rescue took two days, the first day was hard for them to land, but were able to take back those who were very sick. A group of rescuers stayed with the rest of the survivors for the night. They were rescued the next day.
The guys who survived definitely had the most impressive will to live. Especially the ones who did the whole trip and rescued the rest of the team. It's mindblowing what we are able to do when we have the will to do it
14 of them r still alive and very active. Some years ago I was hitch hiking to P. del Este and G. Servino took us.
I remember when this happened. We were glued to the tv, radio and newspapers. After a while, people started giving up hope that anyone survived. Then after they were rescued, all people could talk about was how they had to eat each other to survive. Everyone was playing the “would you do it” game.
Yes, some of the survivors were consultants on this film and also played extras. The man holding the door at the airport was a survivor. They all said this film is extremely close to what actually happened. That’s good there were survivors to get this story right.
It was nominated for Best Mackup and Best Sound.
I was so sad Society of the snow did not win any Oscars.
The man that said "Carlitos Miguel Paez, mi hijo" is the real Carlos Miguel Paez the surviver that play the role of his father in the true history. You have other real survivers in other characters in the movie.
Obviously, a harrowing story to watch. But, ultimately, it’s about hope, friendship and the miracle of human courage and endurance. So uplifting in the end.
This film really hit me and has stayed with me. A lot of the quotes I literally think of on a daily basis. Like when they say that there is purpose in death because it moves others, that really changed my perspective in a meaningful way. The fact that they told the story through Numa is such a beautiful way to share the humanity of all of the people that endured the crash, not just the survivors and how their deaths literally were the reason the others survived, didn’t starve and had the motivation they needed to go and find rescue in a seemingly impossible scenario. So profound.
I’m so mad this was barely nominated for anything. Easily one of the best 10 films of the year. It should have been a best pic nominee.
-with JA Bayona u know you’re getting some intense sound design.
Barely nominated for anything at the Oscars*, because they took home an absurd ammount of Goya Awards
@@ailem2707 that’s not how it works .
@@Knightowl1980 sadly it didn't even win the best foreign film award.
@@prathapkutty7407 no but zone of interest is uniquely chilling
My grandma knew the farther of one the sons that passed on the plane. He traveled from the states just to receive one momento from his son’s corpses. He was so devastated he couldn’t be there to say goodbye to his son before the plane departed.
1:46:32 I am proud to say I've met Eduardo and we've had some conversations over Facebook and email and his connection with the mountain is something else. He speaks about it not with fear but with love and respect, saying that he has never been closer to his condition as a Human being as he was when he was in the Andes. Honestly I am not sure whether if he gets something or not for going to the mountain with Ricardo Peña (who became his friend after he found Eduardo's blazer from the 70's together with his IDs and returned them to him 30 years later) but I can assure you he goes because he really learned to love the mountains, not only the Andes, as he has also escalated the Kilimanjaro, for example.
Hope you can make some more reaserch about him (and his cousins, Fito and Daniel). He's an extraordinary human being, the sweetest man ever. Loved your video :D
The real Nando Parrado attended the Oscars with JA Bayona and Enzo (who plays Numa )
I'm 26 and I'm from Chile and my mother is from San Fernando and she told us that a friend of her mother (a friend of my grandmother) her family gave shelter to Roberto and Fernando. My grandmother (She is like 80) watched this film and said that the house shown here was really close to her friend's house wich is actually wild.
In some interviews the survivors said they couldn't make a fire because of the humidity, wind and the cold. The weather there didn't let a fire stay on.
"The impossible" is another survival true story made by Bayona. He discovered Tom Holland and casted him for The impossible. Totally recommended
Agreed 💯
They already made a reaction of that one
Explanation of why they did not make a fire:
Apart from the fact that there was nothing to fuel a fire that would last, they were very afraid of blowing up the plane, because there was a lot of fuel left everywhere, even on their clothes. Survivors say that there were a couple of times they cooked the meat for those who couldn't tolerate it raw, but mostly they ate it raw and frozen.
Fun fact: the guy who plays the father of Carlos Miguel Paez (the one who says the names of the survivors at the end) is actually the real Carlos Miguel Paez, one of the survivors
Such a powerful film. Some of the actual survivors made cameos in this movie. In fact, the doctor treating them after being rescued is the actual doctor who survived
So glad that you watched it in its original language, as an Argentinian I appreciate the commitment
La película no es argentina y la mayoría de los actores tampoco son argentinos, no entiendo a qué va el comentario
@@kookie3350 al contrario, la mayoría de los actores son argentinos, unos 30. Los actores uruguayos son unos 6 si no me equivoco. Seguramente lo que el del comentario principal quiso decir es que al verla en español se respeta el lenguaje y el acento rioplatense, y esta cultura es compartida tanto por argentinos y uruguayos.
@@kookie3350 Sí, sabemos que la película es española (y que la historia es uruguaya!), pero en Argentina la historia es famosa al haber sucedido acá.
Por cierto, prácticamente todos los actores (excepto el de Numa) son argentinos.
@@GessAtti la historia sucedió más en Chile
@@kookie3350 La historia no sucede más en un lugar u otro, flaco. Todo vas a discutir? No es una competencia. La historia sucede en Argentina, luego desciendan y son auxiliados en Chile, luego vuelven a casa a intentar sanar. No es una competencia...
My favourite factoid of this movie is that the man who read the survivors names and said "Carlitos Miguel Paez, my son" was the real Carlitos playing his own dad.
Also, the most famous photo they took which is featured in the film and is easy to find on google, is the one of them all sat outside the plane with a spinal column to the right of the photo.
The rabbit hole I went down after watching this movie, wow ! What an incredible film!!!!!!!!!!!
The plane was off course. That's why it crashed and part of the reason they were never found. Javier Methol's family owned a tobacco company. He and his cousin who died in the crash took a bunch of cigarettes' with them. He's the guy that had to step on his wife to survive. They also rationed them to suppress hunger. Most of actors are from Argentina or Uruguay. Some had no acting experience at all. Most of the movie is accurate but they changed how Numa was hurt. Someone stepped on his foot in the dark plane one night and that's why he died.
Some of the real survivors appeared in some scenes of the film, they looked for actors with the closest possible resemblance to their protagonists. They made this film with the true stories of each survivor.
This movie wrecked me so much. I only knew the basic facts from Alive but I hadn't seen that film in over twenty years.
I did recognize the photos they were taking on the mountain. I remember seeing those photos back when Alive came out. This film was such a beautiful tribute to everyone on that plane.
I'm so happy to see a reaction to this film from you guys! I've been hoping you'd do it at some point! I love this movie, I read the book Alive in the early 90s as a teenager and became very interested in this story. The movie Alive was decent, but near as well done as this film.
I believe they didn't light any fires because they simply didn't have much to burn. The plane was mostly metal, and every bit of fabric was used to keep warm. Burning any of it would have been temporary relief.
And the reason they had so many cigarettes was that Javier's family owned a tobacco company, and I believe that Chile was having a shortage at the time, so the smokers on board made sure they had plenty of cartons.
As for the meat, they did dry it in the sun for the most part. So it was like eating jerky.
The way they treated Nando's head injury actually influenced the way head injuries are treated by doctors everywhere now. They placed Nando near the open end of the fuselage so his head remained cold, but his body was warm. That allowed his brain to not swell too much while they kept the rest of his body warm, and he slowly healed. And they did this without really knowing that what they were doing was beneficial.
And the survivors (14 are still currently alive) get together every year on December 22, the day they came home from the mountains. They've remained friends, helped each other through hardships, one of them struggled with addiction at one point and the others came together and intervened, and later on that one said that Nando and Roberto had saved his life once in the mountains and then again through his addiction.
But for the most part, the survivors were successful and happy. Roberto finished medical school and became a prominent doctor. Nando is a successful businessman. They both got married and had children. They say their bond is like brotherhood. They are the only ones who know exactly what the other went through to get them out of the mountains.
Just to elaborate, Nando was kept near the front of the plane during the first night, which helped with the swelling in his head. However, his body was still freezing and he would have died of hypothermia since he has basically been left for dead. Fortunately a couple of the other people in the plane (one of which was Diego Storm, who was just starting his medical degree) thought Nando was actually looking better, so the two shared warmth with Nando. Had those two boys not done that, Nando likely would have froze to death.
There was a 1993 movie called _Alive_ that tells the story of the same group, with almost all white Hollywood actors playing them (Ethan Hawke was Nando). I saw it back in the day and if I'd gone by this movie, I'd never have known about Numa. He wasn't even in it.
I'm so grateful this has been retold with such attention to the real details, where they didn't Hollywood-ize any of the horrors they survived. They deserve to have their story told right.
Catching this in theaters was crazy and really puts you in their situation first hand
Thanks for the great reaction! 👍👍 The reason why you have never heard of it is because the USA is self-centric in terms of news. This is not the only universally known story that Americans don't know about unfortunately. I know Russian, Chinese and Indian friends that knew about this story when they were kids. I just know a few Americans that knew about this story before the second movie about it was done in the 90s. I knew about it since I was a child since I am originally from Latin America, it is very well known and very present story about survival and inspiration. SOTS was robbed at the Oscars 😩😩
I remember watching a documentary when I was younger about this and it got ingraved in my head. This story is so inspirational
Definitely recommend watching some of the behind the scenes and interviews for this film-they filmed it sequentially and in similar conditions (though medically supervised) as the survivors lived through, which significantly contributed to how fantastic it turned out. It’s super interesting to learn more about the severe filming processes.
"Could being buried in snow isolate them from the cold?"
Partially, yes; but without proper design, snow doesn't work as an iglu; specially if it there is no way that air comes in to replace the air inside the plane. In an avalanche, when snow stops, it compacts and hardens pretty much in a similar way that feels and resembles concrete (that's what killed several individuals: not the cold but being crushed and unable to breathe). The avalanche sealed the regular exit of the plane, and partially covered it.
The problem with not letting air out is that CO2 levels begin to spike inside the now sealed aircraft and that eventually is deadly by itself (it doesn't matter if you are warm or not; and that's why in winters, if you have a source of heat based on something burning, you always have to have a window open).
"Who made this plane?!"
Short anwser: USA. The plane was a Farchild FH-227D, a dutch model originally manufactured by Fokker, but licensed to the american company Fairchild Hiller during the 1950's. The FH-227 was a stretched version of the original design, created independently by Fairchild. That the forward fuselage took that much punishment without losing its shape much, indirectly tells you how strong and violent the crash really was, to break it and rip the seats as if they were just attached just with tin foil (make no mistake: the plane was heavy and underpowered because of the engines it had; but it wasn't a "paper plane", just held by clips and tape).
"Why haven't we heard of this?"
Regionalism; the crash was big in Latin and South America in the 1970's, but it pretty much went unnoticed in english speaking territories (or, if it was reported, it was later overshadowed by other stories). While this is partially based on what every country considers more important to its education and news, there is also an element that there's just too much history to know everything (which in turn, creates this problem of "well, what stories do we focus on").
One quick example, for April: everybody remembers Titanic... have you ever heard of her also sunken sister Britannic?
Nice reaction, and shee you in the next one.
Roxy should get an award: she kept deducing what the next survival step should be. At one point I said: Roxy would have made it out of there too. You are made of the same wood these guys were. 💪🏽
I could never do what these incredible people did. But I was a girl scout for 13 years and am a camper so I do have some skills/knowledge :)
Gracias por verlo en español! Buena reacción! Saludos desde Argentina!
Nando is a distant relative of mine, My grandma's brother i believe. The story of this movie will live in my family for generations to come.
Damn, and here I was literally just going to see if anyone else had uploaded a reaction.
I really love that they used Numa as the narrator despite him dying. I think it makes you connect and feel just even a small portion of the grief that these boys went through.
John, this is Gomez from Halloween Horror Nights. My family is from Argentina and my father remembers watching the actual news broadcasts of when they found them. This is the third movie based on the same true story: "Survive!" (1976), and "Alive" (1993) starring Ethan Hawke as Nando. My parents went on a date to see "Survive!", it was a Mexican produced film but for the American version, a young Christopher Reeve provided some of the dubbed voices. My father and I went Opening day to see "Alive" in a packed theatre. We were both in awe of how they did the plane crash sequence. But my father was a little disappointed that "Alive" made no mention of the Chilean gaucho across the river that was passing notes, it was such an integral part of the real story. My father was telling that they were passing notes across the river for a couple of days because the gaucho thought Nando and Canessa looked suspicious.
I love that you have already reacted to excellent films from South American countries and with subtitles. Like this one and City of God. I would love and highly recommend Argentina 1984, or especially Wild Tales, both nominated for Oscars, and Wild Tales in particular I think is Perfect for reaction channels, and any culture can feel identified with its satire and dark comedy...
My favorite film from Bayona is: the impossible, in fact that film went through a long process of making since years ago no one gave it the green light to make it since they said that a film completely in Spanish was not going to be successful so he had to make blockbuster movies like Jurassic World and The Impossible so that they would pay attention to him and Netflix was the only friend that gave him the chance and in the end this movie its amazing and was nominated for the Oscar ironies of life
I’m so tired of studios thinking like this. They’re proven wrong over and over again and still rely on flawed logic
@Knightowl1980 , I'm sure it's not flawed, for every movie we get to see on theaters a good 1000+ must be pitched before they decide on one to give tens of millions of dollars to.
So true! But this movie was robbed in the Oscars because it did not fit the Academy 'mold', and it was never going to beat a English spoken nominee. But the movie won more than an Oscars, the hearts of millions of people that are almost making the movie the top viewed in Netflix. Bayona said he will start working on an extended release once it makes it to number 1. He has over 400 hours of film that did not make final cut 👍👍
He is very good at making Terrifyingly real disaster movies that don't hold back from the Horrors that happen in them.
@@mrknowhere6457 it’s the sound design he mutes almost everything in the background and focuses on the sounds of the elements the moving of the snow or a tree snapping in the impossible. It really immerses u
16 survived. In 2015 Methol passed away, last year Coche Inciarte died too. But before he passed away, Bayona showed him the movie before being released. There are a few cameos in the movie where the real survivors appear, and i heard Inciarte is one of them.
The book was written by a friend of some survivors, he compiled the stories, and named it after the society of snow (la sociedad de la nieve). The survivors liked the film because it is more similar to reality, compared to the film alive. There are many things that are not explained in the film but are explained in interviews with some survivors, for example: Tobacco in those years was scarce in Chile, so Javier Methol (who lost his wife) wanted to do business selling cigarettes and bought a lot. They also explain that Numa's little letter when she died was written by him in real life. And many more things. It was a very popular sad new in south america. SALUDOS DESDE PERÚ 🇵🇪 LIKE
I am currently reading the book of one of the survivors, Fernando Parrado, and man this movie did not show a lot of the gruesome injuries right after the crash (not critique to the movie), like in the book Nando writes that one guy was impaled by a rod and when they pulled it out of him, part of his intestine was visible, yet he still managed to walk around and do work, which is such a show of strength and perseverance. Other than that, what I really like about the book is reading how Nando describes his family and friends, his father and then ofc his mother, Eugenia, his sister, Susy, and his best friend, Pancho (who all died), he describes them with such love and care that I really felt his adoration for them shine through the pages as I read. I can highly recommend his book for anyone more interested in this story.
What is the title of the book please?
@@syndren4377 Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
Enrique Platero could have survived even with that terrible wound in his gut... but the avalanche killed him 😢😢
i'm on the wait list for the audiobook through libby and i'm really looking forward to listening to it! already listened to society of the snow and was blown away by it so i'm looking forward to hearing nando's as well. i wish roberto's was available in english audiobook through my libby/hoopla but fingers crossed it gets there eventually.
There’s a lot of cut footage of the aftermath and injuries from the crash. And you can see in BTS photos that Platero had his stomach wound dressed
Survivors made cameos at the movie. Real Carlitos Paez portrayed his father reading the Survivors names. Real Roberto Caness is the doctor behind the actor making of himself. Real Nando parrado opens the door at the airport for this character and his family. Real Coche was at the cafeteria behind the guys when they were convincing Numa to go. Real Daniel was at the front seat at the church when.
Inside the bar there was one of the survivors reading the newspaper. In the circular left front was another survivor listen to the mass . Bless them all ❤
In Montevideo, Uruguay, there is a Museum about the accident. If u ever go there u can visit the Museum.
Them being a team in the first place held a HUGE role in their survival as a group-imagine these same circumstances on a modern commercial flight full of strangers? Never would have played out the same way
The movie came out on Netflix 3 months ago and is already the 2nd most watched non-English language movie in Netflix history that fully deserved its 2 Oscar Noms (Best International Feature Film and Best Makeup & Hairstyling)!
The documentary on Netflix about the making of it is great! I had heard of the movie "Alive" as a kid, but had NO CLUE it was based on this crash! But of course with our media, the only thing I heard about it was that it depicted cannibalism and a lot of people were horrified about that and it gave the movie a bad reputation. I'll admit I was afraid to watch it for that reason, but I heard SO MANY people talking about this movie and I'm so glad I watched it.
What matters the most to me, and I grew up with this unique story, is that a lot more people over the world are now aware of it and its highly motivational message.
Btw, if it reaches #1, Bayona promised to edit an extended version
@@ailem2707 totally going to watch it again just to give it the viewing hours and will play it on my phone and tablet to get hours on both devices!!
@@ailem2707 yeah, he has like 2 hours more of footage. Even with the 2.5 hours it is I was always engaged. I really hope they release the director's cut in theaters.
You should definitely check out some of the more recent interviews and videos. It is absolutely amazing to hear them talk and sort of be so normal after all they went through.
I feel like people don’t get how GIGANTIC the Andes are. I feel like people just think of a big mountain but it’s just mind blowingly enormous.
Como latinoamericana me siento orgullosa de el milagro de los andes como lo llamaron en su momento, creo que para los que supimos de esta odisea y los que nos toco vivir en esta época jamas veremos un milagro de superación, de generosidad, empatía y trabajo en equipo como lo hicieron los sobrevivientes. Gracias por reaccionar a la sociedad de la nieve chicos !!
YAY I'M SO GLAD YOU REACTED TO THIS!! i've been in my favorite reactors comment sections since i first saw this months ago just begging for them to react to it bc i loved it so much. so happy to see it on one of my favorite channels!
my favorite ja movie is society of the snow and my favorite survival movie is society of the snow lmao but i loved the impossible as well. ja does survival movies unlike anyone else, he's so good at it.
the comment about how you wondered if some of the lines were from letters-- yes, kind of. this film is based on the book of the same name and it's such a beautiful book i highly recommend it. it was written by a childhood friend of some of the survivors and he talked to each survivor to get their story and they are so so incredible with words and how they talk about each other and their experience. there were parts in the movie where i really thought they just added it for dramatic effect or made it flowery for the sake of cinema only to find out while reading that they really happened (ie, numa's final note, javier's entire monologue about liliana, gustavo keeping the trinkets to take home). these just are beautiful human souls and i cannot recommend the book enough it's probably one of my favorite reads ever and i read A LOT.
i think they deserved something from the academy and i'm mad that netflix prioritized pushing maestro for noms over this one (once it hit netflix and became one of their most streamed movies, they started pushing more but it was too late) because i think they deserved more noms and could have even walked away with a win if they were in more categories. them not making the best adapted screenplay, sound mixing, or score ("i see the sky" i will avenge you!!!) is just a crime that the academy should never ever live down. i'm happy they at least got their flowers at the goyas deservedly so!
also highly recommend the making of doc on netflix to see how they filmed some of the big scenes. the avalanche filming is just...phew! they had those guys in actual snow and the whole time they were like "how did they survive this? how did they do it?" such an incredible cast that i've grown VERY fond of these last few months.
this movie kind of reminds me of this random line from a bob's burgers episode (i know lol) but whenever i recommend it i always send it with the bob's gif of him being like "i don't want to oversell it, but it changes you forever" because it really really does. it's become my favorite movie of the last few years and i'm gonna be that annoying person that recommends it to everyone i know for a long time.
Gustavo Servino kept memories in that suitcase, personal objects that he took to the parents of those who did not return, which is why he did not want to leave it. his friends were there
I was in Kindergarten when this happened. At such a young age this story captured my imagination that stuck with me throughout the rest of my life. Anything related to this story was studied time and time again. Society of the Snow really captured the spirit of the tale. It isn't just a story about "cannibalism" after an awful plane crash into a mountainside. Much deeper meaning which you two noted after the film. Good job you two!
About the fire, I saw on a interview Fito Strauch saying that they actually did a little fire to cook the meet a couple of times, specially for those who had problems to eat.
Such a powerful film-you felt like you were shivering with them. I had to bundle myself up in a blanket watching this because I felt so cold. 🥶
Taken from Wikipedia:
Comparison with Alive
J. A. Bayona received an email from Frank Marshall, director of the 1993 film Alive, which also depicted the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash and its aftermath. Bayona said that Marshall told him "how much he loved" Society of the Snow. Bayona went on to say that Alive "created an impact on a whole generation and, somehow, that film also is the product of its time, you know. That was shot in a studio, in a Hollywood studio. Shot in English. Maybe [it] was too soon, especially for the families of the deceased, to be part of a movie... But it was a very effective film at the time. I think that both films complement each other somehow."
This is exactly why the plot seemed familiar... there was that previous adaptation from over 30 years ago.
Except that in this one, the actors actually hail from that region, whereas the previous one was in English.
This is based on the book the survivors wrote a few years ago.
I felt in love with the movie 2 weeks after it came out, and instantly i felt in love with the amazing chemistry of the actors in real life. I was waiting u guys watched it
37:50 It might sound funny at first, but snow is a great insulation. It works like an iglu. Snow "caves" have been used for ages by animals and even humans, and even today one of the things hikers should know is how to make a snow cave in case of an emergency where tent/other cover isn't available. When Numa and 2 others just left the plane to search for the other part, but got stranded for the night, they most likely survived because they got covered by layers of snow that gace them insulation to keep warm and coverage from cold wind.
The fact that there are numerous cameos by actual survivors shows how involved they were in the making of this amazingly beautiful film 💙💙💙
Ricardo Pena found Eduardo Strauchs wallet at the crash site in about 2006 and they subsequently became friends. Eduardo climbed Kilimanjaro with Ricardo in February this year, which is pretty good going for a 76 year old. Eduardo has said he finds it helpful for him to visit the crash site, they bring items back for the museum and tidy the grave site. Quite a few of the other survivors also find it helps them to share the story, others of the survivors choose not to talk about it in public.
interesting fact: some of the survivors were on set while they filmed and roberto canessa and carlitos paez actually played small roles. carlitos paez plays his own father in this, where he reads out his name stating "my son"
Ethan Hawk our american actor we all know was Nando in the original ALIVE movie....and I thought that one was good but this one..wow..extraordinary film making..
This was filmed chronologically so they really did gradually loose all that weight (under supervision to make sure they were okay). That first scene in the airport was filmed AFTER everything else, so they finished filming the survival scenes and production waited a bit so that they could get their health and normal appearance back. But that’s why it looks so happy and like friends meeting up, cause it really had been a while since they last saw everyone all together in one place
Omg, I have been waiting for you to do a reaction to this film since it first came out. I've checked every day, and today, the first day I didn't check, it popped out.
I have soooo much to say, but for now I'll just say THANK YOU for spotlighting this incredible film. As a Latin American, I have known this story since I was a child. I watched "Alive" when it came out in the 90s, and as much as I like it, it doesn't compare to this masterpiece in storytelling that the survivors call the definitive account to their experience. I also so wish this was shown on the big screen... the cinematography alone is a reason.... As long as the movie is, I was always engaged... more than a movie, it felt like an experience... the way it was filmed, it was like you were in there with them. I always tell people who are going to watch it... make sure to grab tissues and a blanket... cause you feel the cold.
I'm still upset about the Oscars. I don't know how poor things beat SOTS for make-up... you guys pointed it out so well. The make-up was masterfully done... and to maintain the continuity of it. Wow.
Should have also been at least nominated for cinematography , score, sound, adapted screenplay... in Spain it won 12 Goyas, which is their equivalent to the Oscars. So grateful Netflix España took a chance... watch the making on Netflix, the movie almost didn't get made because no studio wanted to fund it.
I had commented in your reaction video to "The Impossible", another amazing survival film by Bayona, that you guys should react to this, and many have one of your Spanish speakers included in the reaction... I think Greg's wife speaks Spanish. I don't know why the captions don't accurately translate some of the stuff... and I'm not talking about translating things literally, but watching there were ways to be a little more accurate with the details... as a Spanish speaker, it was a bummer, but still glad the rest of the world could partake with what was scripted in the captions. Just a bummer because, as you mentioned how poetic some of the narrating and dialog was, there were some little details here and there that could have transmitted better in English with just saying things slightly different. Anyway... so glad you guys watched it. As a Latin American, I am so proud of this movie.
I loved and appreciated so much that Bayona refused to cast any big names, and insisted on only casting actors from Uruguay and Argentina to keep it as authentic as possible. The survivors were very involved, and many if them appear as cameos in the movie.
As familiar as I am with the story, when I first saw it, I cried so much. Even watching the making, hearing how when the actor who played Numa introduced himself to the survivors... hello, I'm Enzo, I play Numa... they would just hug him. Numa was so important to them... he said they would only call him Numa. And I loved how they chose Numa as the narrator to give a voice to all who didn't make it. 😢 so touching. Honestly, imho, this is as close to a perfect film as I've ever seen... didn't Hollywood-tize to entertain, just a really well told story. Bravo!
I have so much more to say, but ill leave it at that for now. Gracias!
They pretty soon realized it wasn't safe at all to make bigger fires inside or around the fuselage as there was fuel and other flammablr liquids literally all over. So they refrained from it