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.
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.
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