In 1972, a Uruguayan flight crashes in the remote heart of the Andes, forcing survivors to become each other's best hope.
Society Of The Snow is directed by J. A. Bayona who's directed The Orphanage (2007), The Impossible (2012), A Monster Calls (2016) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Society Of The Snow is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster, the film is also an adaption to Pablo Vierci's book of the same name.
In terms of telling events of a disaster Society Of The Snow isn't doing anything new, the Uruguayan flight disaster has been told through film a couple times before most notably Alive (1993) directed by Frank Marshall or the one with Ethan Hawke as some people like to call it. What is different however is the way Society Of The Snow goes about telling what happened, it documents the accounts of all 16 survivors many of which the author Pablo Vierci knew from his childhood.
Society Of The Snow is a much more personal telling of the disaster which ultimately hits the viewer much harder, especially when it comes to fantastic performances from everyone in the cast. They all do this fantastic job of making their performances as grounded as possible and really brings you into the film, the sound combined with the crash's impact is a huge gut punch to the viewer. It's something that a lot of the tellings of this disaster are missing…the impact especially with such an incredible survival story you want to master the impact which this film does.
Hearing the perspectives of all the survivors combined with the cinematography that truly captures the film's atmosphere is truly haunting yet powerful, some people like to say that the "Uruguayan flight disaster is one of the greatest survival stories ever told" and it's quite hard to disagree. What these people had to go through and what they had to do to survive or try to keep each other alive is truly sad with them having no choice but cannibalize the bodies of the people who sadly did not make it. The film does such a great job of exploring this part of the disaster without coming off as exploitive or shocking, it's done in such a honest and respectful way that shows nobody wanted to do this but had no other choice.
Overall Society Of The Snow is incredibly solid, it may run for a bit too long and there are some slight pacing issues however it is such solid film that tells the disaster incredibly well. Definitely recommend giving this one a watch.
Society Of The Snow is available on Netflix.
8/10 B+
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