IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by J.A. Bayona. Starring Enzo Vogrincic, Augustín Pardella, and Matías Recalt.
Society of the Snow is a Spanish-language film telling the true story of the Uruguayan soccer team that crash-landed in the Andes, and the few who survived there for months. This was directed by J. A. Bayona, who has done a few of my absolute favorite movies, and in comparison this is a little bit lower, but still a very solid and interesting movie. I thought the pacing of the movie was beautifully done -- showed the duration of their survival while staying on the edge of the tension the whole way, which is not easy to do. I do wish I was good enough with faces to have made more of a connection to the individual characters. Especially after a few weeks had passed, I really struggled to differentiate them from each other, which limits the impact any individual character's life or death can have. The film is good, however, at showing this horror on a wider scale and painting it as horrific not just because we care about character X or character Y, but because this is an awful thing for any human being to have to go through, and as a result, my lack of connection with individual characters didn't really hurt it very much. Overall, a very well-made film that tells a fascinating story from a very human perspective.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Society of the Snow > Dodsworth
Society of the Snow > Anna Karenina
Society of the Snow < The People Under the Stairs
Society of the Snow < Onward
Society of the Snow > Barbarian
Society of the Snow > Red Carpet
Society of the Snow < Mildred Pierce (1945)
Society of the Snow < Encanto
Society of the Snow > Sleight
Society of the Snow < Bubba Ho-tep
Society of the Snow > Take This Waltz
Society of the Snow < Margin Call
Final spot: #799 out of 3984, or 80%.
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