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Synopsis 127 hours is a true story about an adventurer and mountaineer Aron Ralston as James Franco believes he is invincible and can do it all alone while on his outdoor adventures. Aron considers an amazing outdoors his second times, he has gone for an adventure trek alone through the generally secluded Blue John Canyon, Utah. He has not told anyone where he is going like he has done many his trekking. He is starting explores canyon with his bike on Saturday. Aron meets two teenagers over there, Kristi and Megan who are lost. After that, Aron continues his journey. Unfortunately, he and a big rock fall in a canyon and his right hand is stuck between the rock and the canyon wall. He tried many times to pull out his hand, but he failed. Finally, Aron realized that he could amputate his arm by …show more content…

The aim of the drama genre is magnify the real situation. It's also stimulate audience's thoughts and emotions. Basically, Family issues, broken friendship and others is a theme usual based on human emotions and problems. So, there are a few genre conventions in 127 hours. Firstly, this film shows real life situation with settings, realistic characters and stories. Some of the photo shows it at last in the movie strongly proof that it is a true story which gives the film more meaningfully and this story really happened to someone. The character and the settings make it all more realistic. Second, the film being a drama has magnify feelings, one way this is done is by seeing the struggles that he goes through and the music linked great to the drama theme. It's moves the audience emotionally. Third, the theme is usual based on human emotions and issues. The main character and his mother are somethings going on since the lady on the phone says, 'mum still hasn't heard from you, can you call her please'. In the film, it shows vaguely between the main character and his family relationship, but we still get the signal from the

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