Page 1 of [VIDEO] Society of the Snow (Netflix)

A fresh re-telling of the story of the 1972 Andes plane disaster, previously featued in the 1993 film Alive (which the real-life survivors refer to as the "Disney version").

I've been fascinated by this story for a long time and read the book on which Alive was based some years ago. I was surprised by how much the film left out or glossed over. The true story was even more harrowing than the film made out and it remains one of the most astounding feats of human endurance.

This version, directed by JA Bayona (The Impossible), is considerably more accurate and was made with the cooperation of the remaining survivors. It also features a race-appropriate cast of mostly newcomers and was partly filmed at the actual crash site.

Anyway, it's really, really good and as you might expect, pretty gruelling.

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I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch this story again, but I didn't realise the Alive movie was the Disney version so now I'm tempted after your recommendation!


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Watched this yesterday. It was much better than Alive I thought and using a race-appropriate cast added somewhat to the authenticity. However, I'm not totally sure it added too much from the 'original' and quite a bit of it seemed shot for shot the same as I remembered. Both films steer clear somewhat from the real horror of what they did and I'm totally OK with that, eating what looked like chicken and seeing a rib cage right at the end is more than enough. The ending of this was much better than alive. The stone throwing scene accurate and the physical condition of the survivors much more accurately portrayed than in the shiny Hollywood gloss of Alive..
Maybe another 5 or 10 minutes or credits information would have added something lacking from Alive too. What happened next? How did family, friends and the media react to what happened? How were they themselves psychologically? etc..

Ste

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