This is a TRUE STORY. This actually happened in 1972, and I remember reading the book about it when I was a teenager. This isn't some fictional story they made up to normalize their evil behaviors. This plane crashed on an extremely high peak in the Andes mountains, and the survivors were trapped with no help, and many of them badly injured.
Since they have no food at all, some of the survivors resorted to cannibalism of the people who had died in the crash. Some rejected that and ended up starving to death. It's a great window into the human soul showing how much people can endure before they change their minds about breaking taboos like cannibalism in order to survive. Some reach a point where they are willing to do things they never would have done before that, and others are strong enough to be willing to die a slow, painful death rather than going against their deepest beliefs.
The original book telling their story is a great read, and I recommend it to everyone. I have not watched the movie, so I can't tell you how faithful they were to the original book and the actual events, but the story the movie is about is absolutely a true event.
Oh my!! I couldn't get thru SOTL, so evil. The crash scene in Alive, when the seats fold into one another like dominoes, and the old woman screaming out in pain, is one movie scene etched into my mind forever.
Yes. I knew it was a real story. The thing about this movie is that apparently the director decided to show the cannibalism part very graphically. Some say it was like watching a horror movie.
This is a TRUE STORY. This actually happened in 1972, and I remember reading the book about it when I was a teenager. This isn't some fictional story they made up to normalize their evil behaviors. This plane crashed on an extremely high peak in the Andes mountains, and the survivors were trapped with no help, and many of them badly injured.
Since they have no food at all, some of the survivors resorted to cannibalism of the people who had died in the crash. Some rejected that and ended up starving to death. It's a great window into the human soul showing how much people can endure before they change their minds about breaking taboos like cannibalism in order to survive. Some reach a point where they are willing to do things they never would have done before that, and others are strong enough to be willing to die a slow, painful death rather than going against their deepest beliefs.
The original book telling their story is a great read, and I recommend it to everyone. I have not watched the movie, so I can't tell you how faithful they were to the original book and the actual events, but the story the movie is about is absolutely a true event.
There was a 1993 movie, Alive, based on the book.
It's an amazing story. The young survivors, raised Catholic, were criticized for their decision when it was made known.
I was in 4th grade at a friend's for a sleepover, and we watched IT, Alive, and Silence of the Lambs. In one night. I'm still traumatized.
Oh my!! I couldn't get thru SOTL, so evil. The crash scene in Alive, when the seats fold into one another like dominoes, and the old woman screaming out in pain, is one movie scene etched into my mind forever.
Aaah! Just the way the cabal would have you be. Grossed out and scared of your fellow human beings.
IIRC the survivors who did resort to cannibalism turned out extremely weird.
Some taboos, once you break them I don't think you can go back
Yes. I knew it was a real story. The thing about this movie is that apparently the director decided to show the cannibalism part very graphically. Some say it was like watching a horror movie.