When an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972, cannibalism helped some survive two months in harsh conditions.
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash: Directed by Brad Osborne. With James Lentzsch, Benjamin Josse, Kelly Haitz, Cindy Latch. On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished o
Bayona skillfully captures the immediate aftermath, as the survivors confront gnawing hunger and the desperate need to make a fateful decision. One of the film's strengths lies in its portrayal of the internal conflicts among the survivors. The ethical dilemma of resorting to...
At times they still speak their piece, such as Nando calling what they did "anthropophagy" rather than cannibalism, since it didn't follow murder. At other times he speaks rather candidly, such as explaining that the avalanche saved the remaining people's lives due to it covering them from...
“rupture” that began with the crash in those breathtaking mountains expanded, that they had to create a “new society”—one in which thoughts of cannibalism emerged pretty much simultaneously amongst the survivors. As the men mulled over the taboo notion like a tribe of council elders “the...
bloody chunks of meat being packed into rugby socks for their journey. The shot almost comes and goes before you realize what you’re looking at. InSociety, as the boys are getting ready to leave the crash site once they know they’re being rescued, two of the survivors ...
At times they still speak their piece, such as Nando calling what they did "anthropophagy" rather than cannibalism, since it didn't follow murder. At other times he speaks rather candidly, such as explaining that the avalanche saved the remaining people's lives due to it covering them from...