Surviving Society of the Snow: A Movie Analysis
Director: J.A. Bayona
Writer: J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, Nicolas Casariego (Screenplay)
Writer: Pablo Vierci (Book)
Cast
- Agustin Pardella (What the Waters Left Behind)
- Enzo Vogrincic (La noche de 12 anos)
- Matias Recalt
- Esteban Bigliardi
- Diego Vegezzi
Plot: The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments to survive.
Runtime: 2 Hours 24 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Society of the Snow starts when a Uruguayan rugby team travelling to Chile over the Andes, crash lands. Not everyone survives the crash and the ones that do must face the horrendous cold conditions the mountain range throws at them.
As the survivors face an uncertain future, they are forced to make a difficult decision to eat the dead passengers. However, it puts together a bigger moral dilemma for the Christian survivors as the race to find rescue intensifies.
Verdict on Society of the Snow
Society of the Snow is a drama following the true story of the survivors of the plane crash. It dives into the horrors they faced in their battle to survive. Along with the moral dilemmas they faced to survive in conditions where people gave up searching for them.
This is one of the most incredible stories of survival. It showed how far humans could go to survive even if we have seen this story told a few times. In this one, we get a much more personal connection to what happened. It includes a couple of brutal sequences, including the crash itself. The movie is a little bit longer than it needs to be, but the people who survived and the people who were lost will never be forgotten.
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Final Thoughts – Society of the Snow is the incredible story of survival.
