Society of the Snow is GRUESOMELY BEAUTIFUL
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Although this review may look negative from the thumbnail, I promise it is positive. However, I seriously will never be watching Society of the Snow ever again. Watch the review to see why!!
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Forget Marvel and your own language for a f***ing couple of hours. This movie must be watched in OV with subtitles because the 60% of the efforts are directed to the cast.
I totally agree!!
Alive was ok, but The Society of the Snow, is majestic. They honored and gave voice to the ones that died, and their families appreciated that, some said they felt their relatives were beautifully represented. A few of the actual survivors were in the movie. The actual Nando Parrada opened the airport entrance door to his younger self, his sister and mother. Carlitos played the role of his father (who was very involved in the search) excitedly naming the survivors to the radio host. Roberto Canassa was the doctor who took care of the actor who played him. Etc. The survivors said this movie is the most similar to what actually happened. And apparently they also wanted Numa to be represented as they named him as a big part of the team's motivation for survival and what prompted Parrada & Canassa to go on that last 10 day hike to find help.
Every detail seemed to have been done with genious intent to make them symbolic.
It was also said that the actors spent time with the survivors and families of some of the non-survivors, in an effort to learn more about their characters, and represent them the right way. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets nominated to the oscars.
I didn’t know any of that so thank you for commenting about it! It’s really fascinating to know about the sheer dedication and love put into making this film. I too hope it gets nominated for some Oscars, but sadly Netflix releasing it so late will probably be hugely detrimental to its chances.
@@LoganLikesMovies This movie was based on a different book than "Alive". The author of "La Sociedad de la Nieve" was Pablo Vierci, an Uruguayan writer that went to the same college and knew the rugby players since before the accident. When Bayona read the book, he wanted to bring the story to the screen and give a voice to the ones that stayed in the mountain, and show how the effort of all of them, as a group, made possible the return of the 16 survivors, that's why we truly care for all of them. As you said, the movie is heartbreaking but incredibly beautiful at the same time. Not only the quality of the direction and the acting, and the story itself, the technical aspect is also outstanding: they filmed the mountains, the view, the whole area around the actual place of the accident, and added it later digitally to every frame filmed with the actors around the fuselage, so we see what the group really saw when they were trying to survive, the vastness of the Andes, the kilometers of snow and more mountains, it's not CGI. The whole making of this movie is fascinating, as the care Bayona had to tell this amazing story of survival and strength.
That's why I do want to see it again because there eas so much I wasn't aware of.
I watched this the night before getting on a plane to fly, and I loved it so much I read an interview Nando Parrado gave, while I was in the air. About to watch again for a third time; there isn’t a single thing I don’t love about this movie.
That’s awesome you loved it so much!! But wow, you are BRAVE to be watching that movie while flying haha
@@LoganLikesMovieslol yeah i wouldve been so scared to watch it on a flight
There's no movie that can really give you an idea of being there for more than 70 days. It's impossible. The most important message I take from this story is that no one's coming to save you, so you better start doing something for yourself.
This film was absolutely fantastic. It's really superior to "Alive" and JA Bayona did an outstanding job. The sound in this movie is just nuts, I felt really uncomfortable at a times. Same thing happened when I saw the Imposible as well is like Bayona's special signature. He really likes to put extra effort in the sound department. I hope Bayona and all the team get the recognition they deserve.
Yeah the sound in this was CHILLING, it seriously terrified me. I hope they get recognition too but sadly this movie just came out WAY too late i think. Netflix should’ve released it the weekend before Christmas or something at least to give it more time for awards momentum
@@LoganLikesMoviesbecause it needed to be on cinemas at least 3 weeks to be able to compete on the awards season , it was on cinemas before Christmas
@karinahuertascastaneda2256 yeah but it’s not like it was at a lot of theaters. They could’ve given it a limited release around thanksgiving time or something like that.
I much preferred 'ALIVE'x
@@waynedevonald9335 Well, Wayne. You're entitled to be wrong hehe
It's the best movie of the year. The soundtrack is beautiful. I smell a few Oscars...
EXACTLY LITERALLY THE BEST
Thanks for your review. I mostly agree with you, except on that I've already watched it twice and maybe I'll give another try because there's so much depth in this movie, so many feelings that arise along their extremely overwhelming experience that I've needed to watch it more than once to figure everything out and I still don't get how could they survive in the middle of nowhere under those terrible circunstances. It's such an inspirational movie!
You’re totally right, the film is really inspirational and incredible to witness. It just gets SO uncomfortable and personally, I’m gonna be doing a bit of flying this upcoming year so that’s also why I wouldn’t want to watch this again
Two of the survivors, Canesa and Parrado, give lectures outside of their profession. And tell Because they survived. One of them to see his mother and tell her that he was alive. The other to reach his father, and show him that he had not been left alone despite having lost his sister and his mother.They talk about very simple things, but sometimes we forget. It's inspiring to listen to them.
As a Uruguayan, seeing this great film about the tragedy experienced by my compatriots makes me shake.
I Really want to watch it again with other people who have the guts to watch it of course..
I have known the story from a long time ago and was shocked by it when I heard that this movie was based on that event I literally went to watch it right away and like you said it is gruesomely beautiful..
I lived in Indonesia, south east asian country which has very warm weather all year round but we have many volcanoes and mountains that are also cold but not in comparison to that Andes mountain cold temperature.. I had experience of sleeping in a hut in a mountain with just tiny blanket that I had to share with friends.. I was cold and couldn't sleep because of the cold.. never in my life that I would imagine, I would be so glad to to see the sun with its warm light since I got plenty in my hometown (my hometown is near the sea so it is kind of hot and I kind of hate it in someway)..
I imagine it would be millions times far worse than my experience to sleep in that cold temperature at night with dead people around you.. and hunger and everything..
I totally agree! And I think this film does an amazing job showing that. Whenever the sun came out in the film you could feel the relief from the acting, cinematography, and sound. As a viewer I felt what you described with being so glad to see the sun
In Montevideo, Uruguay they have their own museum.
2018 fui ao Chile. Em Sao Fernando conheci Sergio Catalan o tropeiro que encontrou Nando e Canessa, e levou eles para casa.
Survival movies are one of my favorite genres, so I'm definitely gonna have to check this out.
Good luck with your channel growing
Thank you so much!! If you’re really into those types of movies then yeah, this is REALLY up your alley
Los actores pasaron frío de verdad en Sierra Nevada (España) donde se rodaron casi todos los exteriores. Se sometieron a una dieta drástica para perder peso. Iban al gimnasio tras el rodaje para adelgazar más. No todo fue trabajo de maquillaje.
Thanks!
The old man faces towards the end were not only due to the excellent makeup . The actors underwent a super strict diet, some lost more than 20kilos weight
This movie deserves an Oscars! This is a cinematic masterpiece, not only because of the aesthetics, art, photography, make-up or script, but because the story is real and truthful as possible....
And may I ask: why no focus on one of THE REAL HERO of the story - SERGIO CATALAN ? The man that found them was Sergio Catalan, a Chilean muleteer. (And this is Sergio Catalan's story). He was moving his animals through the mountain and happened to come across them. He said that at first he thought they were tourists. However, the more he looked at them he realized how poor their condition was. (But) because of the stream he couldn't hear them. So he had to go and get a piece of paper and a pen so the boys could communicate with him. Once he got their message he rode on his horse 10 hours to the closest police station. He said it took him what was left of the day and the whole night to get there and you were right in your reaction. When he arrived they didn't believe him. They thought he was drunk and making it up. However, since he refused to budge and he had the letter they decided to go ahead with the rescue... After they were rescued the survivors developed a really close relationship with him. Some of them said he was like a father to them. When he got sick and needed hip replacement surgery, the boys paid for his medical bills and Roberto helped him get treatment quickly since he was now a doctor. Sergio passed away in 2020 and Gustavo Zerbino attended his funeral in representation of the survivors. He carried his coffin and gave a speech to say goodbye to him. "
There should be a PART II of the Society of the Snow, with the story focusing on SERGIO CATALAN... People may disagree with me, but for me, Sergio Catalan is NOW a member of the Society of Snow - and ONE OF THE HEROES... So, I repeat, there should be a Part II...
I loved this movie! The movie "Alive" was also wonderful.
This story is extraordinary. Changed my life.
I was twelve when this happened
As a 13 years old, when i first heard about the story, i was completely shocked, sad, but also REALLY captivated my interest. I wanted to know more abut it, to do more research, to hear the story from the survivors perspective. Despite the c*nn1b@l!sm part of this story, its still not believable how 16 of them survived, how they took care of eachother, etc. The c*nn!b@lism parts really did traumatized me but it gave me a big slap of reality and that young innocent men can experience this tragic story. And i couldn’t help but cry every time a survivor died, it made me so sad, ⚠️SPOILER** especially i didn’t expect Numa Turcatti to die, he was so caring, kind he was the type of person who takes situations seriously yet doesn’t take any risk. But when it comes to his friends, he took the risk when *SPOILER*⚠️ after the avalanche he couldn’t take it anymore so he broke the window seat with his feet, (so that each of the survivors would get out of the snow) but his feet got infected and died soon in December 11.
Big applause for the movie “The society of the snow”. Its really amazing and extremely realistic.
Excellent review! But this is a 5 star movie.
I disagree. This movie is a 10/5 for all the barriers it breaks through, as well as for layer after layer of good writing, good storytelling, good messages and the faithfulness to the survivors’ testimonies. If this movie makes you uncomfortable, I’m sorry, but too bad. None of us will see a better movie than this for YEARS.
If eating your teammate strikes you as beautiful 😂😂😂
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Giving your own life so other people can live is beautiful. Yeah.
@@Neyenn worked for Jesus.
@@Neyenn supposedly the ones et were already dead.
Stupid comment
I much preferred the original 'ALIVE'x
Alive is not "the original" Alive was the second movie about this tragedy and was the least accurate. The survivors hated that movie and never approved it. In this one they even make cameos
Alive looks like a weekend in the mountains compared to what really happened.
@@angelinanunez602the first version, the Mexican one, IT WAS HORRIBLE! Much worse than Alive! Totally disrespectful to the people, their culture and the accident itself. I was so mad that i almost broke the tv! 🤬 As an Uruguayan who witnessed all the drama, because i was ten when this happened, i felt totally offended listening to a bunch of Mexican making Mexican jokes and talking in their own argot! And let’s not talk about the faces of the actors… it seemed they got into a native tribe and chose them from there! Disgusting 🤢 🤮
Its a great film, but Alive is better . Just found your channel and love it already
Alive is very bad, and does not respect real facts. That movie changes the names of real people and the actors look like they came out of a McDonald's at the end of the movie. You only like that movie because it's with English actors, but the actors in the new movie are better. That's why you have to see it in OV with subtitles.
Thank you so much!!
@@coffalo_familyy Roger Ebert, he of the healthiest of food choices, agreed with you on the weight point. Darn that director for not making his actors starve themselves for the film! How are he! And you have NO idea why I like Alive. I could care less iwhether they used English actors. I loved the book Alive, its why I saw the movie, and now I assume this is the part where I have to apologize for liking it. Never saw the Barbie movie, never will and wonder the heck you would think that if a person llikes Alive, they will like Barbie. Wow
Like one of the survivors said, Roberto Canessa, Alive was the Disney version.
Alive is bad, and the suvirvers said it many times