After 20 years, you analyze a lot. You remember people, heroism. "The Miracle of the Andes", that's what they called it. Many people come up to me and say that had they been there, they surely would have died. But it makes no sense, because until you're in a... situation like that... you... you have no idea... how you'd behave. To be affronted by solitude without decadence or a... single material thing to prostitute it elevates you to a sprititual plane, where I felt the presence of God. Now, there's the God they taught about me about at school. And there is the God that's hidden by what surrounds us in this civilization. That's the God I met on the mountain.
This film was pretty hard watching. Definitely would revisit this film another time. Although the film is an extremely watered down version of the actual events, it could not have been about the cinematography or the characters chosen or the representation of actual events, that would have been missing the point entirely. It was a celebration of sorts for the human spirit and the will of these guys to live.
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