好萊塢熱愛改編真人實事，因為有些人的真實故事往往比虛構杜撰更光怪陸離，或是更使人驚嘆命運造化。

改編自2003年一起真實新聞事件的《127小時》，敘述登山高手艾倫羅斯頓(Aaron Ralston)獨自在猶他州峽谷中攀岩時遭遇意外，他右手被大石壓住而受困127小時。最後○○○○才脫離險境，他驚人的求生意志與非凡運氣成為當時頭條新聞，事後他更寫出了「Between a Rock and a Hard Place」這本自傳小說，敘述當時經歷的漫長求生旅程。

導演丹尼鮑伊(Danny Boyle)與上回在《貧民百萬富翁》合作的英籍編劇賽門比爾佛伊(Simon Beaufoy)後再次入主這次《127小時》改編工程，比爾佛伊擅長打造詼諧筆調，苦中作樂的人生態度。從他過去的劇本《一路到底：脫線舞男》(The Full Monty)或是《B咖妙管家》(Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day)就看的出來。《127小時》裡的台詞突顯了男主角艾倫的積極幽默個性，面對這種險境時仍力保理智情緒，不會一時失控而逼自己走入絕境。

導演丹尼鮑伊則再次讓全片維持他擅長的快節奏、酷炫攝影角度及感染力極強的音樂(這回還是找來在《貧》片合作的印度籍作曲家A.R.拉赫曼作嫁音樂)，讓男主角詹姆斯法蘭柯在這94分鐘中展現分秒必爭的127小時氛圍。使得這齣獨角戲異常華麗，不致於使觀眾覺得沉悶難耐。

既然，大部份觀眾知道《127小時》片子發生的事，那麼，是要強化這段脫困歷程還是談論主角動彈不得時的心境探討？丹尼鮑伊把這些段落切割地剛剛好(否則太強調脫困過程恐怕會讓許多觀眾如坐針氈)，要讓觀眾先理解男主角艾倫的非凡身手，所以有那段他帶兩位女子從窄狹壁崖墜入洞穴池水的冒險過程。

也需適度帶到艾倫喜性獨自冒險個性，還得交待他的人際交友家庭關係。片中還夾雜些許魔幻寫實橋段，使得艾倫回憶著自己的童年與此刻的對話，否則撐不起94分鐘片長。你可以說，這彷彿是主角的迴光返照，也可以說是想奮力脫困的恣意美好想像。一如人在死時會瞬間目睹人生縮影以數秒做收，而艾倫則想到了他的家人與未來理想藍圖。

《127小時》比起同性質的《浩劫重生》還來得殘酷，卻也更具煽情勵志精神，入圍奧斯卡最佳原創歌曲的「If I Rise」在片中竟然只出「聲」這麼短暫(而且A.R.拉赫曼打理整片音樂的比重並沒有像上回《貧》片的神采，並沒有真正聽到啥主旋律)，或許是丹尼鮑伊想要搭上片尾Sigur Ros那首激昂歌曲「Festival」時，要使觀眾都替男主角脫困成功感到雀躍不已，必須做出這麼大的對比才能令人熱血沸騰。

《127小時》是部紮實的編導演三合一強效咖啡，男主角詹姆斯法蘭柯證明不需仰賴迷人臉龐，他靠充滿血絲的雙眼，及一隻想曬太陽的腳與無奈微笑征服觀眾。這是一場華麗的獨角戲，擁有輕易征服觀眾的魔力，只有自己與死神的倒數拼戰。特別是片尾你看到真實世界的主人翁艾倫照樣登山攀岩，頓時間你發現這世上似乎沒有什麼事是做不到的。愛迪達那句廣告文案「Impossible is nothing」與耐吉的「Just Do It」應該可以折衷成127 Hours的上片文案，非常恰當，非常熱血，非常人生。

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

127 Hours is a 2010 [url=/wiki/Biographical_film]biographical[/url] [url=/wiki/Adventure_film]adventure film[/url] co-written, produced and directed by [url=/wiki/Danny_Boyle]Danny Boyle[/url]. The film stars [url=/wiki/James_Franco]James Franco[/url] as [url=/wiki/Mountain_climbing]mountain climber[/url] [url=/wiki/Aron_Ralston]Aron Ralston[/url], who became trapped by a boulder in [url=/wiki/Robbers_Roost]Robbers Roost[/url], [url=/wiki/Utah]Utah[/url] in April 2003.

The film, based on Ralston's autobiography [url=/wiki/Between_a_Rock_and_a_Hard_Place_(book)]Between a Rock and a Hard Place[/url], was written by Boyle and [url=/wiki/Simon_Beaufoy]Simon Beaufoy[/url] and produced by [url=/wiki/Christian_Colson]Christian Colson[/url] and [url=/wiki/John_Smithson]John Smithson[/url] (both Beaufoy and Colson had previously worked with Boyle on [url=/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire]Slumdog Millionaire[/url]). The music was scored by [url=/wiki/A._R._Rahman]A. R. Rahman[/url] who had also previously worked with Boyle on Slumdog Millionaire. The film was well-received by critics and was nominated for six [url=/wiki/Academy_Awards]Academy Awards[/url] including [url=/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture]Best Picture[/url] and [url=/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor]Best Actor[/url] (James Franco).

On April 25, 2003, [url=/wiki/Aron_Ralston]Aron Ralston[/url] ([url=/wiki/James_Franco]James Franco[/url]) prepares for a day of [url=/wiki/Canyoneering]canyoneering[/url] in [url=/wiki/Utah]Utah[/url]'s [url=/wiki/Canyonlands_National_Park]Canyonlands National Park[/url] as he drives to the trailhead at night. The next morning, he bikes through the park, aiming to cut 45 minutes off the guide book's estimate for the time needed to reach his destination. He is on foot, running along a bare rock formation when he sees two hikers, Kristi ([url=/wiki/Kate_Mara]Kate Mara[/url]) and Megan ([url=/wiki/Amber_Tamblyn]Amber Tamblyn[/url]), apparently lost. Ralston convinces the pair that he's a trail guide and offers to show them a much more interesting route than the one they had been trying to find. He leads them through narrow canyons, including a blind jump into an underground pool, where the three film themselves repeating the plunge using Ralston's video camera. As they part company, Kristi and Megan invite Ralston to a party they're holding the next night, and he promises to attend. However, they doubt he will show.

Ralston continues into [url=/wiki/Blue_John_Canyon]Blue John Canyon[/url], through a narrow passage where boulders are suspended, wedged between the walls of rock. As he descends, one boulder is jarred loose, falling after Ralston to the bottom of the canyon and pinning his arm against the canyon wall, trapping him. He initially yells for help, but nobody is within earshot. As he resigns himself to the fact that he is on his own, he begins recording a video diary on his camera and using his pocket multi-tool to attempt to chip away at the boulder. He also begins rationing his water and food.

As he realizes his efforts to chip away at the boulder are futile, he begins to attempt to cut into his arm, but finds his knife too dull to break his skin. He then stabs his arm, but realizes he will not be able to cut through the bone. He finds himself out of water and is forced to drink his own urine. His video logs become more and more desperate as he feels himself dying. He begins dreaming about relationships and past experiences, including a former lover ([url=/wiki/Cl%C3%A9mence_Po%C3%A9sy]Clémence Poésy[/url]), family ([url=/wiki/Lizzy_Caplan]Lizzy Caplan[/url], [url=/wiki/Treat_Williams]Treat Williams[/url], [url=/wiki/Kate_Burton_(actress)]Kate Burton[/url]), and the two hikers he met before his accident. After reflecting upon his life, he comes to the realization that everything he has done has led him to this ordeal, and that he was destined to die alone in the canyon.

After five days, Ralston sees his unborn son through a premonition. He gathers the will to apply enough force to his forearm to break it and severs his arm with the dull knife, fashioning a crude [url=/wiki/Tourniquet]tourniquet[/url] out of the insulation for his [url=/wiki/CamelBak]CamelBak[/url] tube and using a [url=/wiki/Carabiner]carabiner[/url] to tighten it. He wraps the stump of his arm and takes a picture of the severed portion he is leaving behind. He then makes his way out of the canyon, where he is forced to rappel down a 65-foot rock face and hike several miles before, exhausted and covered in blood, he finally runs into a family on a day hike. The family sends for help and Ralston is evacuated by helicopter.

The film ends with shots of the real Aron Ralston from his life after his ordeal — including several of Ralston's further adventures in climbing and mountaineering, which he continued following the accident — and of Ralston with his wife, whom he met years later, and their son.