The plot of a story is deeply imprinted in my mind. Two British mountaineering enthusiasts climbed to the top of a snow-capped mountain in South America. When they descended, Joe fell and fractured his right foot. Simon, another member of the knot group, helped the injured Joe, kept pulling the rope, and continued to descend, only to slip and hang under another cliff. In desperation, Simon cut off the rope and went down alone... On the night before preparing to evacuate, he actually heard the cry of Joe who was struggling to retreat to the nearby tent in the camp tent.
Just the experience of this legend of life and death (can't find a more suitable word) is dramatic enough to watch this documentary online. People always want to see what they like, or they like to be touched, so I look forward to the scene where the two of them reunite in camp.
It's a pity that it's a documentary, Spring and Autumn's brushwork, the director's first measure should be real. There are only a large number of interviews with the parties, and real-life simulation reproductions based on the scenes at that time. The thought changes and emotional entanglements of the characters did not adopt the Hollywood-style sensational exaggeration that we are used to. Perhaps the lack of oxygen at high altitude makes people less sentimental; even when Simon saw Joe again, the director did not give the actors too many facial close-ups , perhaps to respect the objective facts, it is difficult for frostbitten faces to show complex expressions.
On the contrary, what impressed the most was the truth of these people. It was only the instinctive desire to survive that led Joe to survive, and he even admitted honestly and slightly ashamed that in some desperate moments, he had never thought of the people he loved. A guilty Simon admits that the moment he decided to cut the rope, and when he descended over the cliff, he didn't think of the second possibility.
I feel the same way about the first few sentences of the film: they all like to climb mountains, because life is too safe, which can satisfy the instinctive desire for adventure as a human being. Because of constantly facing danger and death, it makes you feel alive.
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