Who is 127 hours based on

Eventually, Ralston was rescued nearly four hours after his amputation. Firstly, at the start of the film, Ralston meets two girls and helps them find a pond in the canyons. The trio then ends up taking a dip in the pond, and the girls invite him to a party before going their separate ways. In reality, Ralston merely showed the girls some basic climbing moves. As a result, the hallucinations Ralston has about the party are elements of fiction.

Ralston did record a series of videos as a farewell message to his family. However, he has admitted that these videos were never seen by anyone other than his family. However, he did receive help from a family hiking in the area, as seen in the film.

The movie was filmed in the exact same location where Ralston was trapped. As he drank, he had to force himself to stop. Having failed to tell anyone where he was going, he knew he would not be found. It was like, all right, brute force isn't going to do it. This is the stop-think-observe-plan phase of rational problem-solving. I have to think my way out of here.

He ruled out the most drastic option — suicide — but the next most drastic alternative came to him immediately. That little back-and-forth. Then, 'Wait a minute. I'm not talking to myself. That's just crazy. You're not talking to yourself, Aron. After two days spent fruitlessly chipping away at the rock with his knife and devising a clever but futile system of pulleys with his climbing clips and ropes to hoist the boulder clear — he was defeated because climbing rope is stretchy and he couldn't obtain the required tension — he put his knife to his arm, only to find it was so blunt he couldn't even cut his body hair.

In Boyle's film, when Ralston realises he can use the knife like a dagger rather than a saw, the camera follows the knife's journey into his flesh so the audience can see blade come to rest against bone inside his arm. This scene is "beautiful" to Ralston. He vividly remembers how it felt to have the knife in his arm, touching his bone "because it meant, I'm gonna die. It went from, 'I did it! By the fifth day, Ralston had found "peace" in "the knowledge that I am going to die here, this is my grave".

In the middle of his final night, hallucinating through hunger, lack of water and 3C temperatures, he had a vision of a small boy. I see myself scoop him up and there's this look in his eyes, 'Daddy, can we play now? Now it's like, I am going to get through this night. The next morning, finally, came the rage and its revelation — that Ralston could fling himself against the boulder to break his own bones. From then, it was easy. The snap of his bones "like, pow!

It's an 'it'. It's no longer my arm. As I picked up the knife, I was very cool and collected. It is striking in Ralston's own book, and in Franco's portrayal in the film, just how curiously unemotional he is about his predicament, which he views not self-pityingly nor self-critically but simply as a series of problems to be solved.

When asked why the epiphany that leads to his freedom came through anger and not his more characteristic rational thought, Ralston gives a particularly good answer. It's not just about exercising your strengths," he says, flexing his good arm, "it's also about exercising what aren't your strengths. And yet here's this way I was very heart-centred, both finding my strength and finding the solution. It didn't have anything to do with logic, it had to do with the sensation, the feeling of the bone just bending in a really weird way.

Then it became a thought: 'I can break my bones. In the canyon, Ralston calculated it would take him at least 10 hours to find medical help and he would bleed to death but, using pieces of climbing kit as a tourniquet, he strapped himself up and somehow managed to scale a 65ft cliff to escape the canyon. Aron, do not give up. Now wearing a prosthetic arm, Aron Ralston still climbs mountains and explores canyons.

He also travels the world as an inspirational speaker. Search Search. Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 11, VOA Africa Listen live. VOA Newscasts Latest program. VOA Newscasts. Previous Next. October 28, PM. Silverman report on " Hours". The Day in Photos.