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Touching the Void
Imagine that you are trapped on a mountain in the Peruvian Andes, your leg is broken in several places, you are severely dehydrated, bitterly cold, all alone.... and you can't get this song by Bony M out of your head. You don't even like the song. Now, that's hell.
That's one of the lighter moments in Touching the Void a harrowing, awe-inspiring, true-story of two climbers made into a great movie/documentary. Aside from the sheer entertainment value, very sheer in this case, the move has a lot to say about the diversity of preferences, the will to survive and believe it or not, how to achieve goals. Touching the Void also nicely disposes of that old canard about there being no atheists in foxholes. Highly recommended.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on August 4, 2004 at 07:35 AM in Film | Permalink
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