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*Some facts:* The survivors said this movie is so close to what happened in real life and they are so grateful for the respect its was made from and also the person reading the names of the survivors at the end is Carlitos Paez another survivor, portraying his father Carlos Paez Vilaró, who continued the search for them after the official search was called off. This is one of my favorite movies of 2024
A couple more facts: in one of the scenes at the beginning, when Nando and his family were arriving at the airport, you see man who opens the door for them, that is the real Fernando Parrado. Then, in one of the last scenes, when they are in the hospital, there's a close-up of Roberto, and there is a white-haired doctor behind him. Well, that's the real survivor, Roberto Canessa. There might be other survivors participating in the movie. Also, it took Bayona more than 10 years to complete the movie project. It's an amazing movie based on an amazing true story.
Nando also made an cameo in the airport scene he opens the door for Nando and his family ironic that he’s essentially depicting himself leasing his family onto a plane that will crash
This movie is such a waste not becpuse its bad its great on eof the best i think but they could have made it in english and i bet it would be like 10x more watched and better rated
Numa’s note was actually real. It’s a verse from the bible, he was very religious. Numa would always go to expeditions and help others, he never rested. That’s partially why he got so weak. When he hurt his leg and wasn’t able to help like before he got depressed cause he felt useless. Then he got those things on his back that were even worse. He did it all for love, for his friends.
Numa is the narrator because he was the last one to die. He died 10 days before the rescue so he went through all the events except the last expedition. He is the voice of all of them survivors and non survivors, specially the ones who fought and helped the others as much as the rest, but at the end didn't make it. It is considered by National Geographic as the greatest survival story of last 100 years.
In the beginning Roberto didn’t trust Nando and didn’t pass the ball when he asked for it. And by the end he HAD to trust Nando when he was so hopeful about going to Chile. Poetic
The movie did a great job in doing that analogy. But that scene also shows you Canessa’s character and give you a sense of who he was back then. Someone, as described in Nando’s book, who did not like receiving orders and would do things his own way, someone extremely stubborn and egocentric (Nando’s own words). Nando describes how Roberto was always in detention at school for arriving on horse and leaving the horse tied in the patio. The horse would ended up untying itself and eating all the plants in the patio. It does not matter how many times the priests as schools asked Roberto not to bring the horse and he would just keep bringing it.
the movie didnt have time to explain why Carlitos's father was there. Carlos Paez Vilaró was searching for his son since the accident, he was convinced he was alive and the chileans called him "The crazy old man that's searching his brat" . The day Nando and Roberto appeared he was actually in Chile's airport about to go home, in defeat. And they called him over the airport speakers and a running police man met him in the door of the plane, told him some survivors had appear. He actually read the list without knowhing his son was alive... so when he read "Carlitos Miguel Paez" my son, his voice cracked a bit, because he was finding out at that moment.
@@KaoruGoyleit was not only Carlitos’ father who was looking for them, Roberto’s father was on a plane searching for his son when Roberto and Nando were on their last expedition. Roberto heard the plane. That plane caught fire and had to do an emergency landing. He took the bus to go back to the hotel and the bus broke down. He was sad, upset and frustrated when he took the taxi and the taxi driver told him two men appeared from the Andes. Roberto’s father had not heard the news and asked the driver if he heard Canessa’s last name when they said the news to what the driver responded in the affirmative. They hugged each other and the rest is history.
@@minyrar7107 Oh I know that I just talked about why Carlos Paez was still there, If I explained what happend with each of the parents that search form them I would write a book long comment.
Nando's eyes look like 'raccoon eyes' because he had a skull fracture in four places from the crash. The others thought he was going to die/was dead and put him in a colder area of the plane (iirc) where his head was on the snow. It actually helped the swelling of his brain go down and that is how he survived. I have watched this film countless times since its release on Netflix and each time it's an experience. The fact that 16 of them managed to survive is a miracle of itself. RIP to those who passed in this tragedy and RIP to José Luis “Coche” Inciarte, Javier Methol and Sergio Catalán Martínez.
the detail of his eyes is crazy, so happy they got an oscar nomination for makeup, I hope they win, not only you see the physical deterioration of the survivors but also the healing of the wounds they got in the accident, amazingly done
@rosiii880 Yes! As an Esthetician student (we study make-up application as well) I was absolutely stunned by the make-up used and how well it told their story. They deserve so many awards both the actors and the whole crew/directing/producing team behind Society of The Snow. I heard recently that Matias Recalt won a breakout actor award for his portrayal of Roberto. I cannot begin to congratulate everyone who worked on this cinematic masterpiece!
My coworker and I were talking about the makeup nominations and she was like "I think maestro deserves the win. They did a really good job" and im like?? I know we've both seen SotS. The makeup in SotS is unmatched
@@Peeplii That's what I'm saying! Usually with movies or TV I can tell when it's make-up since it will look sort of bad in a perfect way (for things like crashes, bruises, cuts, etc) but for SotS it literally looked like the actors had been stranded on a mountain for 72 days. It didn't give me the 'movie make-up' vibe. It was so genuine and as someone with a keen eye for make-up and esthetics, it was very very well done. If SotS doesn't win I will be baffled.
YES! I think it's mentioned in one of the books or the interviews that almost none of them had ever seen snow in their lives prior to the accident. Which makes it all the more fascinating how they were able to adapt to such an imposing and hostile environment
@@joseitohirose-5428Where did you get that info? Like half of the countries in South America have snow lol (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia get snow and some places in Ecuador and Colombia see snow too)
@joseitohirose-5428 lmao are you kidding me? Bariloche alone is like a mini Switzerland here in Argentina. Also they crashed in Mendoza, also a province that snows. We do have plenty of snow here, not to mention Tierra del Fuego and the south of Chile
Dicen que Roberto Catalan estuvo preso en la noche porque pensaron que era otra mentira (hubieron muchas) y que molestaba hasta que dio datos más precisos y le creyeron
@@pazforever se llamaba Sergio Catalán. Ese rumor es falso. Al principio no le creyeron pero Dn Sergio era una persona conocida en el sector (incluso se lo habían recomendado a Carlos Páez padre como alguien que podía ayudar en la búsqueda). No podrían haberlo retenido la primera noche que les encontró porque todavía no sabía quiénes eran los jóvenes .
Hi guys, just because I really admire Dr Canessa: 11:38, Álvaro Mangino had said, in interviews and books, that Roberto fixed his leg by hearing the cracks. A 19 yo med student, after a plane crash, composed a leg broken in pieces just by hearing how the bones craked together. Back in the world, Álvaro went to different doctors to saw if he could get a better treatment for his leg, and they all said that Roberto's intervention was the best possible, that it could not be better that that.
He also spearheaded a volunteer project for building ventilators during the pandemic. This guy is so consistently impressive that I'm pretty sure he would have been only slightly less impressive had he never crashed in the Andes
Álvaro Mangino dijo hace pocos días que su pierna quedó en perfecto estado hasta hoy 52 años después, Roberto hubiera sido un excelente traumatólogo, aún así eligió la cardiología infantil y ganó tres veces el premio Nacional de Medicina del Uruguay.
They did cut some parts for storytelling purposes. They didn’t fly directly fro Montevideo. Nando and Roberto waited overnight for the muleteer to return with his sons, a pencil and a piece of paper. The news of the survivors took much longer to be relayed and the operation to take place. The rescue took two days and a group of survivors spent a final night with a rather shocked rescue team, eating the rations they were given by the Chilean Air Force. The rescue operation itself was hazardous and dangerous. The helicopters took a big risk by flying in such a high altitude.
Yeah, I know when you first hear about this story it is hard to believe it is true, but it really happened like in the movie, the survivors told everything in the book "Society of the Snow" where this movie took its name.
It's "funny" because for once the script had to left out incredibly dramatic stuff that happened in real life because it would've been too much for a single film, life how close the helicopters that rescued them were to crash because the weather was terrible for flying.
@@jacquelinea.7575 true, the fact that some of them had to stay one more night there too 🙈 i love the story of the one recuer that was nice to them (the other 2 being freaked out by the bodies) and had brought, apart from food, stuff to make them mate to drink 😭
Not sure if someone else already said but all the survivors really loved Numa and felt he was a source of hope for all of them. I just thought that was really beautiful. No one deserved to die but it is especially painful that he wasn't even supposed to be there so for them to honor him by making him the narrator was just a really special detail to me.
@johnnydeleon8210 I haven't watched alive but Alive wasn't made with approval of or input from most that died or survived, so they had to make up names for the dead. Numa is practically in the movie but with some other name.
Im reading the book, and Coche Inciarte even said he irradiated so much peace, it felt as if Jesuscrist came down from up there and was around them. Also Gustavo Zerbino, one of the doctor there, even said he never complain, remained stoic and kept that strenght of his even while he was getting close to his last moment, and that he felt he gave his life to precipitate the last expedition.
@@huh4206 That's true, the names of all those who died were changed in "Alive". The character who was inspired by Numa Turcatti is Rafael Cano, played by actor Michael DeLorenzo.
The whole movie is really really sad but 3 scenes just broke me: - numa's note - javier saying he never felt a love bigger than when he hugged his dead wife - them trying to brush their teeth and hair when listened about the rescue It's just so respectful how they portrayed everything, it deserved a lot more in this award season
the thing that always gets me is Nando screaming happily on the helicopter that everyone's fine, that was the first time he saw them since the day he left with Roberto (10 days prior) the relief he must have felt to see all 14 were still alive.
Cuando se ponen a arreglar para el rescate, dicen los sobrevivientes que también se volvieron a poner la ropa de cada uno, hasta ese momento todo era de todos. Señal de que volvían a la "civilización"
Numa made me cry more than I have in years... I'm 27 but I can't imagine that feeling of unfairness, of knowing you will die and you have lost all your future possibilities. Young people dying always gets me
I'm so glad Netflix gave freedom to Bayona to do this film as he wanted, big budget and a latino cast. As a latino I appreciate this. Horrifying story and one of the best films from 2023.
The fact that the real life Nando held the door open for the actor version of himself at the airport made me 😭😭😭 and then the real Roberto leading the actor version of himself into the hospital 😭And Carlitos dad, that was the actual Carlitos playing his own dad. There are more people if you look through the credits
21:37 health care worker here 👋🏻 to answer that, yes it's real. it'll usually look like tea or cola. most causes of dark urine are dehydration, infections/urinary tract infections, jaundice or liver disease (sometimes due to bile in the urine), etc. however the most common cause is due to dehydration, which obviously would have been one of the many things they had to face in those mountains.
@@FreezingFroggie yeah, that makes sense, i was only naming some of the causes for black urine. but it's just horrible honestly, i feel so bad for them and what they went through
They did use all real names. Some of the survivors are actually in the movie, Nando is opening the door to himself at the airport, Carlitos Paez is the one listing the survivors names (so he's acting as his father there), Roberto is the doctor behind himself when the're entering the hospital, Jose Luis Inciarte is at the bar when pancho is trying to convince numa to go with them, and i think there are more
One of the saddest parts of this story to me is how they were demonized when they came back because of what they did to survive. It wasn’t until family members of the deceased came forward and publicly forgave them that people stopped shaming them. I think even the pope, or higher members of the Catholic church, publicly pardoned them for what they had done and said it wasn’t a sin since there was no other way for them to survive.
What's your source? All the survivors clearly said in varius interviews and documentaries they were never shamed and there wasn't backlash for what they had to do. And the families of the deceased understood the reasons.
@@daytripperapeople got mad because they didn't talked about it until people got suspicious and calling them out how TF did they survive that long without food. That's what my grandfathers told me, some of the survivors went to my highschool but we weren't allowed to ask about the cannibalism.
I was 10 when that happened and i never heard anyone in my town criticizing them for that. On the contrary, people understood that was the only way they had to survive!
Yeah, i read that ppl were sus and then saw one picture with some bones, bryce points it out here! Ppl saw the bones then and they had a press conference to explain everything, ppl just had to understand the circumstances… The human body is made for survival
@@ezequielmondada6427No, no hablaron hasta que todos volvieron a Uruguay. Muchos estaban internados en el hospital de Santiago de Chile. Ellos no querían hablar hasta no ser ellos los primeros en decirles a sus familiares y los familiares de los que no volvieron. Por eso la conferencia de prensa que dan en el Gimnasio Old Cristian. Los que no querían que dijera fue el gobierno chileno, la iglesia de Chile de ese momento. No hay que olvidarse del contexto de las cosas. Era 1972!
48:40 That mountain they climb is now called "Seler", because when Nando Parrado made it to the summit he wrote that name on a bag and left it under a rock. He was the first person to ever climb it. "Seler" was his father's name, his inspiration to keep fighting to survive.
Roberto Canesa as a doctor, Nando Parrado in the airport scene and Carlitos Paez as his own dad (i think some others did cameos but im not sure where)@@laishatrejo34
@@laishatrejo34Carlito's played his dad, the real Robert Canessa was the doctor behind the actor who played him when they were entering the hospital. The real Nando was the one who opened the door for the actor who played Nando when entering the airport. There was another in the scene when Numa’s friends were convincing him to go, he was sitting at the table in the corner. Numa’s nephew was the older gentleman who was walking at night and said hello to Numa when he was going inside his house. Numa’s family allowed the production to use there house to film the scenes.
moncho sabella outside the airport , coche impiarte by a table in the cafe where numa meets up with friends, and daniel fernandez in the church scene. @@maritzanav212
It’s a military plane. It crashed due to navigator and co-pilot error-they didn’t anticipate the strength of the headwinds they were flying against in a storm, so were not where they thought they were when they turned the plane. Of course this was all before gps, so they turned before they were supposed to due to that navigational error. Such a sad story!
I realized that the movie tried to be very respectful of the people that died (and their surviving families) for example, the Co-pilot asked for a gun and this was not portayed here. The plane mechanic (Roque, that survivied until the avalanche) went kinda crazy and asked for their papers and told them when they get rescued he was the one that was autorized to talk to the rescue crew (because he felt that as surviving crewmember from a military plane he hd the authority). Roberto (real roberto, in recent interviews) has talked candidly about him, saiying how the old movie was "so harsh to him" and how he had a kid that one day knocked on his door to ask about his father. Roberto (probably told him a white lie) told him that Roque was always talking about his small son, and never mentioned the things the survivors usually talked in the very very old interviews. As the years go by, and the survivors get old. its like they decided to go for the best more humane side of their story. Roberto has such a big heart.
@@AlexRN it was a passenger plane that belonged to the military. That doesn’t make it a military plane. Otherwise it would have had the capacity to better deal with the Andes altitude. If a F1 pilot drives a Volvo and a Chevrolet it doesn’t make them a racecar. If it was a military plane civilians couldn’t charter it. It would be like renting an F16.
The movie cant posibly portait the frame of mind of the 16 survivors, but Nando and Roberto dont see themselves as heros, because a lot of the preparation for them to go out was organized by the whole team, they gave them the best clothes, more food than the others, and they excused Nando and Roberto from the daily chores (making water, cutting meat, cleaning the fuselage) . But Nando's book (memoirs) is specially impactful, you see, he lost his sister and mother, and his father was in such a state that he sold all of Nando's belongings and even got a girlfriend. So Nando returned to an empty home, without his mother and sister. Fortunally, he picked his life up and was (is) a tv producer, among other things, he married and had 2 daugthers and I think now he has grandkids. Roberto is a children's heart surgeon, has saved countless of lives, and to this day he keeps working and saving lifes. He married his highschool sweeatheart and they have lots of grandchildren. All of the survivors had great lifes (2 already died, recently) and they agree this movie is as close as you can have to a real recounting of the things they lived in the montain.
Most of them hadn't seen a mountain before let alone snow. As it's said in the begining they were boys raised with love in houses by the sea. Uruguay is as flat as it comes.They did this with 0 training or gear, 100% will power. The real Numa weighed 55 pounds when he died. He had no immune system to fight the infection and he rejected food.
I wish they showed more of how the Strauch Cousins were a really strong asset to the group. Everyone played a part, but I feel they get overlooked. Fito was the inventor; he created the snow melting mechanism for water and also the glasses to protect against the sun and snow, and the three cousins did the job of choosing the bodies and cutting them up to feed everybody. I know they mentioned it in the movie, but not clearly enough to show how much they contributed.
This story is 100% true. Professional climbers said, after learning about Nando and Roberto's 10-day hike, that it was impossible to do with their lack of equipment and being people who had never known snow before, since it never snows in Uruguay.
Fun fact: Uruguay is completely flat at sea level, the maximum altitude is a 600meters hill. It never snows in uruguay. They had zero experience in this environment.
@@santiagohitta I'm not saying that in recent years it has snowed, I am saying that it has rarely snowed, you can search for information if you want that snow has fallen in Uruguay, but not in recent years and it rarely happens
@@Rosie_Overload En Uruguay nunca nevó. Nevar significa que el agua de las nubes se cristaliza en las nubes formando lo que se llama copos de nieve que es lo que cae cuando nieva. En Uruguay siempre cayó agua líquida, o sea gotas de lluvia. Que en algún invierno muy frío se congela en el suelo llamándose helada o escarcha o agua-nieve. Pero jamás, en mis 61 años cayó UN SOLO COPO DE NIEVE. Por lo que en Uruguay JAMAS NEVO.
@@jotade63 como dije, si nevo en Uruguay, solo q no en los últimos años, te invito a buscar información en internet, yo tampoco me lo creia hasta q mi padre me lo confirmó.
guys, when Nando asks about his sister and mother they literally say your sister is resting and your mother is dead…that’s why the actress who payed his sister was (barely) moving. the one who died in the accident was his mom
While they were there, they made a promise not to eat Nando's mom or sister, Susana, and thats what they did, they kept the promise and buried the bodies, the graves are there till this day.
That promise extended to other family members too. Liliana was also off limits. That’s one reason why nando couldn’t go back to the plane, if he went back waiting for another solution he would’ve ended up eating his mom and sister.
Panchito Abal’s body was also untouched as he was Javier’s cousin. After Nando and Roberto left some of the others decided to try and locate the bodies of those who went out the back but returned after only finding Daniel Shaw’s body. As he was another cousin of the Strauch cousins his body was put to the side. A couple of days later they located Carlos Valeta’s body and his was the last body to be eaten.
@@Zozette27Have they ever said they ate Valeta? They saved the family members’ bodies but they didn’t eat all of the other bodies. I think the number of bodies completely or partially eaten goes up to 14, leaving 15 bodies untouched. And they have never mentioned which bodies they ate, not all the survivors know who those friends were. That’s a secret that belongs to the Strauch cousins, Nando, Canessa, and Zervino.
Los strauch nunca dijeron que cuerpos sí usaron, se supo que 15 cuerpos estaban todavía enteros. Confirmaron que algunos cuerpos no los habían tocado pero no cuales si, y dicho por ellos eso se lo llevarán a la tumba. El padre de Vasco les preguntó si podía ir a la montaña a por su hijo para enterrarlo en Uruguay, les estaba preguntando en realidad como se iba a encontrar el cuerpo de su hijo y le dijeron que no lo habían usado. Así como dijeron que al piloto y al copiloto no los pudieron sacar de la cabina, lo hicieron los rescatistas antes de quemar los restos del avión.
They fell in the middle of the Andes, exactly 3 kilometers from the dividing line between Argentina and Chile. They were on the Argentine side and the place is called Valley of Tears. The name of the valley was already there before the accident.
Y’all should watch - if you haven’t - the short documentary on the making of this. It’s so good & by the director of The Impossible! Almost all of the effects are practical 😮 And, this movie is the first time the survivors granted permission for their names to be used. Reading up on this story is insane. There’s an interesting quote about them all seeing Numa as Christ-like because of who he was for them on the mountain. And with him being the last to pass before rescue it hurts so much more to have him narrate.
Not exactly. The families of those who died granted permission for their names to be used. The names of the survivors were already used in the 1993 movie.
"Numa can't die because he's the narrator" 😭😭😭 Thank you for reacting to this movie. I've watched it like ten times by now, I watch it every time I get to know a new fact about what happened up there. Cried every single time ofc. There's a fact that I know and that I think is INSANE: Nando had a skull fracture and everyone thought he was dead so they left him outside in the cold, that helped him bc he was in a coma for three days and the cold made the swelling in his brain go down, he almost quite literally resurrected on the third day to save his friends
I heard one of the survivors in an interview, and speaking about this film he said that "it shows things quite well but in a nice way. If the events had been shown really how they happened, people would simply leave the movie theater." Great reaction ! Greetings from Argentina
En realidad por este tipo de comentarios, ahora quiero tener la versión de la película extendida. (Esto pasa porque en mi país y la ciudad en donde vivo no existen los libros de los supervivientes en físico y solo vivo a base delos comentarios xd)
@@mgp1203 Haha as a Swede to me experiencing Christmas without snow sounds very weird but I bet you guys are used to Christmas being warm. I'd love to visit Australia some day but It couldn't be further away lol
@@QuzgaChristmas is soooo hot, all the images of Santa are him on swimwear lol but it's way more fun cause you get to party in Christmas and new year without freezing
19:27 "Raccoon eyes" are usually caused by a basal skull fracture (BSF). The basal portion of the skull is the lower portion where the brain rests. When a fracture occurs, symptoms such as raccoon eyes may appear. BSF can occur from car accidents, falls, and other sources of head trauma. Raccoon eyes are a symptom, not a disease; they are not dangerous in themselves, but can be a sign of severe head trauma. Fernando Parrado had BSF and was in a coma for the first 3 days. He was almost knocked out of the fuselage because his face was so deformed from swelling that he was considered near death. That was, ironically, what saved his life: the involuntary fact that his head was left on the snow plus the fact that he was not hydrated was what cured his brain swelling, doctors say. Nowadays skull fractures are treated exactly the same way, cooling the brain as much as possible to avoid swelling and hydrating the patient very little to avoid edema.
As a Uruguayan myself, I’m so happy you guys decided to go with this movie. It hits too close to home for me. 😭there are only approx. 3Mil Uruguayans in the WORLD. 😭 which is crazy to think about when in the U.S alone, there are 335+ mil. people.
I know how you feel! His previous film, the impossible really related to me as a Swede. We are also a small country and the 2004 tsunami was the worst loss of life in hundreds of years in our country, most people had a relative who was missing or died over there as Thailand was such a popular Christmas destination. I had already grown up reading about the rugby team and my mother told me when I was young but seeing this film was just something else, really touched my heart.. I truly hope it wins an oscar! One of the best films I've seen in years, and I hope English speakers don't skip out on it because it's in Spanish. But I imagine as an Uruguayan the movie was even more emotional for you.
The fact that they found unbelievably talented actors that are Uruguayan, portraying Uruguayans, is just proof that proper representation in TV and film is not only possible, but badly needed. The skill of these actors is insane. A-listers getting paid millions wouldn't give a shit; these actors gave everything to these roles.
I’m also Uruguayan and it makes me so happy that this story (which I’ve known my whole life) is now known globally by different generations. I’m so proud of our little country!
The rugby team is uruguayan. They were going to Chile. They crashed in the Andes. They thought they were on the Chilean side of the mountains but they actually crashed on the Argentinian side of the mountains. That’s why they were so lost and so far away from Chile.
Thanks for watching it in its original language! I watched this movie about 10 times, all 10 times I cried. Numa's death still hurts me, he was so few days away from returning. It is the voice of all the heroes who did not return. The plane fell in the Andes due to pilot error. They relied on the amount of time they had been flying. If they had looked at the clock they would have simply known that it was impossible to cross the mountain range in so few minutes. It was a human error that cost them life. Another fact is that Nando wanted to return to tell his father that he was alive, he did everything for him, and in those two months his father had already sold all his things and had even started a relationship with another woman. It was very difficult for Nando because he felt really alone, even the following Christmas he waited outside Roberto's house until midnight so he could spend it with him.
They said your mom died, not the sister... the sister died a few days later, so yes her eyes were moving because she was awake. And ofc they tried making several fires, obviously didn't work. The meat is practically frozen so it stays "fresh"
They crashed in Mendoza (Argentina) but they thougt that they were in Chile. One of the reasons of the accident, was that the pilot thought that they had already crossed The Andes. The pilot turned wrong and ended up between really high mountains and at a low altitud. The weather didn't help because the air pressure, did not let the plane rise again.
The film is a cinematic masterpiece, not only because of the aesthetics, art, photography, make-up or script, but because they managed to tell the story as real and truthful as possible, to the point that the survivors actively participated in it and say that when they see it they relive in their minds everything that happened. It is wonderful the way in which Bayona manages to show the harshness of what happened with an artistic touch and a strong emotional charge and for the first time not only highlighting the figure of the survivors as heroes but also those who died and did not make it out of the mountain, which is why Numa's voice as narrator is so important. Each of the actors met the real person they were playing and most of them managed to create a bond with them, moving from interpretation to reality and giving the importance it deserves to what each survivor felt, because as they have already said, each one remembers the mountain in a unique way. THANKS FOR REACTING! It's not getting a lot of attention from reactors :(
They were in the mountains 73 days instead of 71. Nando and Roberto walked for 10 days (day 71), two helicopters went to the mountains on day 72 and took 5 or 6 of the 14 that were in the fuselage. The rest spent another night with three rescuers, weather conditions were so bad they couldn’t fly back to the mountains until they day after (day 73). The two avalanches were real and the survivors have said that it was the worst thing that happened to them and that it was way worst than what the movie shows. They were buried for four days and eight people that could definitely have made it until the end, died in those events. The note from Numa (is a passage from the Bible) was real and Numa’s passing is what made Roberto finally decide to do the expedition. Going earlier would’ve been impossible due to the cold and weather conditions. In their expedition, they saw avalanches passing by as they were going down the mountains. Roberto almost died of dysentery (that’s why he could not get in the helicopter). They had to climb a huge rock that was blocking their way and found 1000 more dangers on their expedition. Those ten days need a different movie. You can see the real Roberto at the end of the movie, he is the doctor that receives the actor that plays him in the hospital. Nando Is also in the movie, he opens the door at the airport to his family.
Some were in the mountain 72 days and some were there for 73. The rescue operations were too dangerous so a rescue team spent the night with a group of survivors , who ate a three day food supply they left them in one night (who wouldn’t) until they were rescued the following day.
Love this movie. There's about a million little facts about the story that aren't in the movie but it is very very close to what really happened. Some of the survivors worked closely with the director to reach that level of authenticity. Also, there had been a movie about it before but it was made by americans (no offense lmao) and it was pretty bad. This is an all-latin american cast, with most of the actors being argentinian and uruguayan, so, love to see it.
13:56 one did. and got swallen by very soft snow on his way back. When they are speaking to the co-pilot you can hear screaming in the background calling out to him "Valeta, Valeta!" and all the guys that were looking from the window go running to the back side. The scene was filmed but did not made the cut, in fact there are hours of deleted scenes. when the thaw was advanced they found him roughly where they saw him disappear.
The idea for "Yellowjackets" was largely influenced by the Donner Party (1846-1847) and the Andes flight disaster (1972), both true stories about people who resorted to cannibalism to survive.
The real Roberto Canessa became a pediatric cardiologyst and you can see him in this movie as the doctor walking behind the actor who plays him, in the scene were they are being welcome at the hospital min 57:48
Yeah, they think the pilots turned north too soon before crossing all the Andes to Chile (they thought they already passed Curicó, a chilean city, therefore the pilots last words), they started loosing altitude to prepare for landing.... so they crushed in the middle of the mountain range. There's a video out there in youtube explaining it with google maps
That scene where Nando hugged his sister, and his friend told that his mom was dead. The sister wwas still alive but unconscious that's why you saw her eye ball moving
55:19 Real Carlitos Páez (cameo) as his own father Carlos Páez Vilaró, reading the list of survivors. 57:47 Real Roberto Canessa (cameo) as the doctor who recieves his own character at the hospital (he's a doctor in real life, an awarded children's cardiologist).
Guys, the real Nando Parrado is the one who opens the door in the airport to the actors who play himself, sister and mom. The real Roberto Canessa is seen as a doctor behind young Roberto when they are entering the hospital. Survivor Carlitos Páez plays his own father, a famous painter named Carlos Páez Vilaró who was the one that read the survivors list for a Uruguayan radio. Other survivors who made cameos in the movie where Daniel Fernández who is in the church; Ramón Sabella is in the airport next to Mr and Mrs Methol when they are saying goodbye to their kids; José Luis Inciarte is reading a newspaper in the bar while Numa is being convinced to go by his friends
This movie is having a great impact for those who know the story, those who are just learning about it, the survivors themselves and most importantly for the families of the people who did not return from the mountain, and do you know which one it is? the fact that this film pays a great tribute to the people who died... it gave them a voice, name and respect and shows that they were also fundamental... that is why the story is told from the perspective of a person who didn't come back (Numa) and do you know what Bayona (the director) did? Before the premiere of the film, he brought together the survivors and the families of the deceased to watch the film and everyone was delighted with the result, one woman (Marcelo's sister, who died in the avalanche) was someone who never wanted to watch anything of what happened to him and it was like that for many years and when she decided to go see the movie she says that she felt something was freed inside her and that it warmed her heart when she saw with the respect that they had made the film, if you want you can go see it that interview on Bayona's Instagram because he uploaded it there.
This movie (and the whole story) makes you go through every human emotion that can be named. Such an amazing and heartbreaking experience to watch this, very glad you guys liked it
There are 2 main issues about using fire. 1. Lack of oxygen at high altitude plus low temperature make it very hard to get a good fire going. Would need lots of fuel to get it hot and keep it so. 2. What would they use as fuel? They did not have much stuff which they could burn. Most materials they had available were needed. Clothes and even seat materials were key to keep them warm. Burn those materials would have been a terribly short term measure. Its great that they did think long term. They really could not afford to burn whatever they had. So it was too hard to do it and not worth it as a long term option.
Thank you so much for this reaction! Since the movie came out, I have been waiting for more people to talk about it. I think this story not only captures the ability of a human being existing and the power of unity, but Bayona also did an amazing job by breaking a language barrier with the only usage of pure emotion. Muchísimas gracias 💗💗💗
Funny fact: Carlitos Paez took his shirt off because he said he wanted to be " tanned" because he was planning to go to " punta del este" a Uruguay tourist spot.( They all got burn by the reflection of the light and heat on the snow.) Gustavo Zerbino came back to the plane fuselage almost blind after his handmade glasses got lost in the storm. Their teeth were lose because of scurvy cause by lack of nutrients like vitamin c. Alvaro Mangino the guy with the broken leg help by making water and scrape bone powder so they can eat calcium powder. Some of them couldn't help much around because they got altitude sickness the wrose sick was Javier Methol and after his wife Liliana passed away he used to talk to her body, one day a storm came and bury her body. When the rescue team arrives to the crash site the helicopters only took 6 of the boys because of weight, the rest stay one more day with 3 rescue paramedics. One this rescue paramedics was Claudio Lucero who had a gun on his belt and show it to the boys, refuse to go inside the plane fuselage. In the contrary to another paramedic names Sergio Diaz who went inside the plane fuselage and sleep that night with them. Paramedics had 3 days worth of food and the boys eat it all that night. They were graphic pictures that leak to tabloids and newspapers, because Sergio Diaz always documented all his rescue missions with pictures. The pics he took at the crash site were stolen by Claudio Lucero and sold to the tabloids. Sergio diaz felt in to depression because he was blamed and died a year later of the boys rescue. Claudio Lucero still today gives interviews saying the plane crash was planned and the boys stayed for so long because they all wanted was fame, sell books and make movies. For some reason he just hates the survivors. From all the 16 survivors 2 died of cancer Javier Methol and Coche Inciarte. The cowboy man died in 2020 he was 92. There's some survivors that don't like to talk about the experience one of them is Roberto " el gordo" François. Pancho delgado was anesthetized because he was terrified of going back on a plane to fly back home.
They did not eat the bodies of the relatives. Those bodies were set aside and were Susana and Eugenia Parrado, Liliana Methol and also Panchito Abal as he was a cousin of Javier Methol. MOst of the bodies of people who went out of the back were also uneaten. Before Nando and Roberto left they were running low on food which is why Nando said they could use his sister’s and mother’s bodies if they really had to. However after Nando left it the others decided to look for the bodies higher up on the mountain but they only located Daniel Shaw’s body and he was another cousin of the Strauch cousins so his body was put aside. A couple of days later they found the body of Carlos Valeta and he his body was the last they ate. The did not eat the bodies of the last three who died which meant a total of 13 bodies were not eaten.
This movie is directed by JA Bayona, the same director as The Impossible. At minute 52:00, Sach says, "this is almost impossible," which is funny because, according to the director, he was reading the book that the screenplay of this movie was based on while shooting The Impossible, and it was his inspiration for giving that movie its title.
This movie is amazing!!!! the story is so heart-wrenching, but to me it's the greatest story of survival, resilience and endurance ever. The more you find out about this event, the more your mind is absolutely blown by the fact that this was real!! I can't even begin to explain how much I admire the survivors. Also the fact that the movie is in Spanish with Uruguayan and Argentinian actors makes it so much more special, so much more authentic! I'm so happy you guys watched this movie, thanks for always listening to your audience, we appreciate you!
I love how this film gave voice to everyone how could not come back home, how much sentiment and dedication it has from J. Bayona, all the actors, everyone involved in this. I love this is all latin american cast and in spanish, to me it makes it feel so real to what really happened up there in the Andes. I love how much the survivors loved this movie that captured their feelings during the most terrible moment of their lifes. This is a film with so much heart, i really hope it wins all its nominations, what a masterpiece. As a latina (Peruvian here!), im so proud of this movie and all the recognition its receiving
The best story and the Best movie i've ever seen. The book "The society of the snow" is excellent. I've learned much more from this story than from all the philodophers, teachers, authors, etc. It changed my life.
Roberto has said that if he can help someone by telling his tale, then everything he suffered in the montain was "worth it" . If you can, read Nando's memoirs, made me cry so much and It had a big impact on me, Roberto's book is also great, for different reasons, as its more focused in his life as a hearth surgeon for children, (also made me cry rivers).
By the way, I belive all of the survivers did travel again on plains and such, also, a detail that isnt show in the movie. The real Fernando Parrado tells that he's alive by sheer luck, 2 times... first when he bearded the plain he had a window seat, but a friend asked to change because he wanted to take pictures of the mountains, Fernando agreed to change thinking he had to be mature, but inside he was pissed he had to change his window seat, during the crash a blade of the engine sliced the leg of the guy that changed seats with him, and when the plain stopped Fernando hit the front wall so hard he had a broken skull and went in to coma, his friends though he was dead at first, and put him near the hole on the cabin with the head in the snow... that saved him, that reduced the swelling of his brain and thats why he survived that injury, to wake up 3 days later, and then to be one of the two to walk in search for help.
All of them exccept Bobby Francois that didnt fly again. Bobby doesnt have much time in the movie because he didnt do much. He was letting himself die, he said he didnt care if he lived or not, so the other suvivors fed him. One time they told him "if you dont work and help with the chores (making water, cleaning up) we wont feed you". He answered, "Fair enough" and shgrugged. The others still fed him. They talk candidly about Bobby, they say he was like a little brother they had to look after and that gave them a purpose. To this day Bobby says this is giving him too mcuh credit. Bobby never gives interviews, and seldom goes to meetings. He lives in a ranch in the middle of Nowhere in Uruguay. However, he has helped Roberto and the other survivors with their charity organization, he even met and hosted a weekend fishing trip with ROque (the plane mechanic)'s son where they talked about his father along with Roberto. I think Bobby isnt a bad guy, just his persoanlity is so weird.
They travel the world doing motivational speeches. However, in 1972 Roberto Canessa wanted to travel back to Uruguay by car, but he had to reluctantly agree to fly with the rest of the team. There was an entire country waiting for them back home.
My parents are from Argentina and I’ve lived a good part of my childhood there, so I’m very familiar with this story! It makes you appreciate how lucky you are, but it also showcases the perseverance of the human spirit. I don’t know if I could survive in the same circumstances! Love the videos :)
Same here. Family lives in aifornia but both my parents are from Buenos Aires. My father remembers watching the original news broadcast when they found them.
Ps: the plane crashed because the pilot started turning north and decending in the middle of the Andes thinking that they had already "passed Curicó" but they didn't. He was a very experienced pilot, maybe to much confidence but there's still a mistery of exactly what made him have such a badic mistake. Someone sayed that if he had just look at the clock he would have noticed because in 15 mins you cannot pass the Andes
They didn't eat all of the bodies, those were Nando's mom and sister, Javier Methol wife Liliana, Vasco echavarren, Marcelo and the firts bodies were covered by the avalanche so thats why they said they practically chew the bones because not all the bodies were eaten. When Nando and Roberto left the Strauch cousins make a plan b wich was if in 10 days they didn't were rescue the Strauch were the next team to walk out down the mountain. Coche inciarte planned to commit suicide on December 22 if they were rescued because he was really sick. They make jokes about who was going to died and be eaten next, for example they told one of the weak ones " you don't died because u are just bones" they make bets about whom was going to died next between coche inciarte and Roy Harley , coche laughed about it, but Roy didn't like it and said to stop making those kind of jokes. Gustavo Zerbino has said he believes Numa died of septic syndrome because he had 3 large infected wounds on his back so even if his leg injured healed he was going to died because his blood was already contaminated. Numa started to eat after the avalanche but he didn't really eat much. Coche Inciarte was another that in the last days was not eating anymore because he was giving up and Fito Strauch got mad at him. Roy Harley was actually weak and afraid when he went with Nando and Roberto to the plane tail to fix the radio. And in the way back he couldn't walk anymore and told them to leave him behind, so Nando Parrado yell at him and walk away then he came back and practically carried Roy Harley in arms back to the plane fuselage. Roy Harley was one of the wrose at the hospital and doctors actually said he was not going to survive because his heart and body were too weak but he made it.
There's so much information about the real people that goes straight to my heart. Like Coco's really long letter to his girlfriend (I think that actor is fenomenal, so sweet) , like Gustavo Zerbino that spent a month visiting the families of the dead people and giving them some belongings (that were in that suitcase) to have a better grieving process, Marcelo's sister that feels like with this movie she can finally heal some really deep wound (I think the reaction of families and survivors is the most beautiful thing of all), the Strauch cousins that were so so important for survival and are still really emotionally taken when they speak about this, the son of the pilot who contacted Canessa years later to know about the accident, the good luck of a guy who partied so hard the day before that he missed the flight and instead a lady that had a flight reserved later in the day to go to her daughter's wedding in Chile took his place (very bad luck :( ), Carlitos's later struggle with drugs which he calls "his other big mountain", etc. There's really a whole deep universe per character/person (I was a little obsessed to know more XD). As a chilean who knew just the basics about this accident, and specially a latin american, the way this story was made and tolds is SO different than north americanized movies based on latin cultures like Viven for example. It opens up a path for big budget films in spanish (and other languages) and with our real diverse cultures. And I think it is so interesting and daring as a movie that Bayona tried not to have a leading role, not the whole movie. The lead in this movie is a relay sport, and they all played a singular and fundamental part in companionship and survival in that hell, even if they are not the most named.
The way I RUUUNNN here the moment I saw the video up. As a southamerican is so important for me to see people from around here be a biiig deal on Hollywood Thanks for your reaction guys!
no but for real, since i watched this movie, everytime i’m struggling or being lazy i ask myself what would nando parrado do in my place? and just do it. incredible human beings, from nando, to roberto, tintin, carlitos, the strauch cousins. everyone was so important and key parts of the survival.
I just realized watching a reaction to this movie that at the beginning Numa says, “do you want to make me cry?” to Pancho and later on Pancho got him to cry when he had lost all hope and kind of freed him❤ or at least relieved him
As an uruguayan, THANK YOU for taking the time to watch this movie. We grow up with this story it is fucking legendary for us and im so happy that many new people are getting to know about it thanks to Bayona. ❤ It really does teach us all about strength and hope and love and most importantly friendship.
LEST'S GOOOO Aguante Uruguay y aguante Argentina!!! As an Argentinian I'm proud to say that most of the actors are from here. Uruguay and Buenos Aires have an almost exact culture and this is such a huge story in the Uruguayan history. I'm so glad you could react to this tough yet beautiful story from my brothers on the other side of the river VAMO ARRIBA BO
52:04 Scientists, alpinists and even National Geographic have named physically impossible too, since they weren't professionals, wore no oxygen tanks, no equipment. What Nando and Roberto did is "the most incredible human story of survival of all time" as National Geographic says so.
Gracias por reaccionar a la película. La historia es un suceso del que todos los uruguayos somos conscientes desde temprana edad y gracias a este proyecto, esta tragedia está llegando a más personas. Saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾
The doubt they have about why the accident occurred was due to human error. The pilot, as they say, traveled south to look for a lower pass to cross the Andes mountain range, but mistakenly and due to the bad weather he could not see where he was going, he miscalculated the time of arrival, and believed that he had reached Curico (Chile) and asked the Chilean control tower for permission to descend, the tower gave him permission (also not knowing the real location of the plane) and then the pilot, thinking he was already in Chilean territory, took the path towards the north descending to landing in Santiago de Chile. His mistake was to miscalculate the crossing of the mountain range, when he thought he had crossed it he was in the middle of the mountain range, he was still missing to reach Curico, so when he turned north he entered the mountain range without knowing it, and began to descend, then the bad weather, the effect of the effects of the warm Argentine wind and the cold winds from the mountains create that absorption effect or "air hole" which makes the plane descend sharply even more; In addition, the plane had a certain limit to climb and could not climb any further, which meant that when they realized that they were going to collide, it could not cross the mountain. The pilot then tried to avoid it so as not to collide head-on, but ended up hitting the rear of the plane. against the mountain The plane falls into a frozen glacier in Argentine territory, but as the pilot believes that they were already in Chile, he tells the survivors, even more confusing them about his location; That's why Nando thought that when they climbed the mountain they would see green valleys, but they were very far away, that's why they walked for 10 days crossing the mountain range to the Chilean side, without knowing that they were in Argentina and that they also had Argentine towns closer
This story has been told many times, but what is so beautiful about the society of the snow is the decision to tell the story from the perspective of somebody who didn’t make it out alive. Previous versions of the story always told it from Nando’s point of view like he’s the “main character” hero of all of them, and of those who died were just dispensable in the background. But this movie shows that they were all victims of the same circumstance, how they worked together to keep as many alive as possible, and some died trying to save more. and just because you didn’t survive didn’t mean they weren’t equally heroes. The survivors loved that idea so much they were proud to have this story told again, not to mention the Latin cast and attention to detail. It’s definitely the best and most respectful retelling yet.
Climbing those mountains to escape seems impossible, and it pretty much is. But comes down to pure determination to live. Literally nothing to lose, highly likely to die during attempt, but certain death if they dont try. So might as well try!
LO QUE LO HACE AUN MÁS INCREIBLE ES QUE URUGUAY ES UN PAIS QUE NO CONOCE LA NIEVE, Y SE IBAN A SANTIAGO DE CHILE DONDE HABIA UNA TEMPERATURA FRESCA PERO NO EL FRIO DE 30 GRADOS BAJO CERO, POR LO QUE ESA GENTE LLEVA ROPA MUY LIVIANA
I'm glad you liked this movie, it's really one misfortune after another what happened to them but that in the end there are survivors is really impressive and inspiring
50:17 I found an interview that Nando gave in 2007 to the Irish Examiner's rugby analyst, Donal Lenihan, very interesting. Title: My 35-year wait to meet the resurrection man. He talked a lot about his life after the accident. . They were the first to climb this mountain. In it, Nando wrote the name of his father Seler with lipstick on a bag (he was the reason he was motivated to continue). Later the mountain was even called Mount Seler. And many visit this place.
The accident occurred on the Argentine side of the Andes, province of Mendoza. Nearby is the ski center "Las Leñas" Due to an error in reading the instruments, the pilot believed that he had already crossed the mountain range and was on the Chilean side of the Andes at the height of the city of Curico, 100 km further west than where they really were and when beginning the descent towards Santiago which is 180km in a straight line north from Curico.
I've watched a few documentaries over the years chronicling this tragedy. It is still heart-wrenching and fascinating at the same time. Many of the survivors are still with us.
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*Some facts:* The survivors said this movie is so close to what happened in real life and they are so grateful for the respect its was made from and also the person reading the names of the survivors at the end is Carlitos Paez another survivor, portraying his father Carlos Paez Vilaró, who continued the search for them after the official search was called off. This is one of my favorite movies of 2024
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A couple more facts: in one of the scenes at the beginning, when Nando and his family were arriving at the airport, you see man who opens the door for them, that is the real Fernando Parrado.
Then, in one of the last scenes, when they are in the hospital, there's a close-up of Roberto, and there is a white-haired doctor behind him. Well, that's the real survivor, Roberto Canessa. There might be other survivors participating in the movie. Also, it took Bayona more than 10 years to complete the movie project. It's an amazing movie based on an amazing true story.
Nando also made an cameo in the airport scene he opens the door for Nando and his family ironic that he’s essentially depicting himself leasing his family onto a plane that will crash
This movie is such a waste not becpuse its bad its great on eof the best i think but they could have made it in english and i bet it would be like 10x more watched and better rated
@@cinitax The director wanted it to be the closest to reality, that's why the movie is in spanish...
Numa’s note was actually real. It’s a verse from the bible, he was very religious. Numa would always go to expeditions and help others, he never rested. That’s partially why he got so weak. When he hurt his leg and wasn’t able to help like before he got depressed cause he felt useless. Then he got those things on his back that were even worse. He did it all for love, for his friends.
Todos eres religiosos, por eso no querían comer porque para ellos era profanar
Numa is the tear that make everyone move on to live ❤
He was a gentleman and a true friend. Rip 🙏
Numa is the narrator because he was the last one to die. He died 10 days before the rescue so he went through all the events except the last expedition. He is the voice of all of them survivors and non survivors, specially the ones who fought and helped the others as much as the rest, but at the end didn't make it.
It is considered by National Geographic as the greatest survival story of last 100 years.
And all of them remember him as someone that gave everything to help their friends, even his life, because he always gave more than the limit
In the beginning Roberto didn’t trust Nando and didn’t pass the ball when he asked for it. And by the end he HAD to trust Nando when he was so hopeful about going to Chile. Poetic
The movie did a great job in doing that analogy. But that scene also shows you Canessa’s character and give you a sense of who he was back then. Someone, as described in Nando’s book, who did not like receiving orders and would do things his own way, someone extremely stubborn and egocentric (Nando’s own words). Nando describes how Roberto was always in detention at school for arriving on horse and leaving the horse tied in the patio. The horse would ended up untying itself and eating all the plants in the patio. It does not matter how many times the priests as schools asked Roberto not to bring the horse and he would just keep bringing it.
@@minyrar7107that is kinda hilarious 😂
“Carlitos Miguel Paez, my son” The guy who reads the names at the end is Carlitos himself.
the movie didnt have time to explain why Carlitos's father was there. Carlos Paez Vilaró was searching for his son since the accident, he was convinced he was alive and the chileans called him "The crazy old man that's searching his brat" . The day Nando and Roberto appeared he was actually in Chile's airport about to go home, in defeat. And they called him over the airport speakers and a running police man met him in the door of the plane, told him some survivors had appear. He actually read the list without knowhing his son was alive... so when he read "Carlitos Miguel Paez" my son, his voice cracked a bit, because he was finding out at that moment.
@@KaoruGoyleit was not only Carlitos’ father who was looking for them, Roberto’s father was on a plane searching for his son when Roberto and Nando were on their last expedition. Roberto heard the plane. That plane caught fire and had to do an emergency landing. He took the bus to go back to the hotel and the bus broke down. He was sad, upset and frustrated when he took the taxi and the taxi driver told him two men appeared from the Andes. Roberto’s father had not heard the news and asked the driver if he heard Canessa’s last name when they said the news to what the driver responded in the affirmative. They hugged each other and the rest is history.
@@minyrar7107 Oh I know that I just talked about why Carlos Paez was still there, If I explained what happend with each of the parents that search form them I would write a book long comment.
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Man I did not know that. Wow
Nando's eyes look like 'raccoon eyes' because he had a skull fracture in four places from the crash. The others thought he was going to die/was dead and put him in a colder area of the plane (iirc) where his head was on the snow. It actually helped the swelling of his brain go down and that is how he survived.
I have watched this film countless times since its release on Netflix and each time it's an experience. The fact that 16 of them managed to survive is a miracle of itself. RIP to those who passed in this tragedy and RIP to José Luis “Coche” Inciarte, Javier Methol and Sergio Catalán Martínez.
the detail of his eyes is crazy, so happy they got an oscar nomination for makeup, I hope they win, not only you see the physical deterioration of the survivors but also the healing of the wounds they got in the accident, amazingly done
@rosiii880 Yes! As an Esthetician student (we study make-up application as well) I was absolutely stunned by the make-up used and how well it told their story. They deserve so many awards both the actors and the whole crew/directing/producing team behind Society of The Snow. I heard recently that Matias Recalt won a breakout actor award for his portrayal of Roberto. I cannot begin to congratulate everyone who worked on this cinematic masterpiece!
My coworker and I were talking about the makeup nominations and she was like "I think maestro deserves the win. They did a really good job" and im like?? I know we've both seen SotS. The makeup in SotS is unmatched
@@Peeplii That's what I'm saying! Usually with movies or TV I can tell when it's make-up since it will look sort of bad in a perfect way (for things like crashes, bruises, cuts, etc) but for SotS it literally looked like the actors had been stranded on a mountain for 72 days. It didn't give me the 'movie make-up' vibe. It was so genuine and as someone with a keen eye for make-up and esthetics, it was very very well done. If SotS doesn't win I will be baffled.
Javier methol passed away? I had no idea 😢 RIP
Uruguay is a really flat country, they have no mountains, no snow. So imagine for this young men, they knew less than nothing about that environment.
YES! I think it's mentioned in one of the books or the interviews that almost none of them had ever seen snow in their lives prior to the accident. Which makes it all the more fascinating how they were able to adapt to such an imposing and hostile environment
South America as a whole doesn't have snow really.
@@joseitohirose-5428Where did you get that info? Like half of the countries in South America have snow lol (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia get snow and some places in Ecuador and Colombia see snow too)
Uruguay have snow!! I dont know why people keep repeating that
@joseitohirose-5428 lmao are you kidding me? Bariloche alone is like a mini Switzerland here in Argentina.
Also they crashed in Mendoza, also a province that snows.
We do have plenty of snow here, not to mention Tierra del Fuego and the south of Chile
Chilean here! The man in the horse is Sergio Catalán, he rode for 10 hours on horseback to get the note that Nando wrote, incredible.
DON Sergio Catalán. May he rest in peace .
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Dicen que Roberto Catalan estuvo preso en la noche porque pensaron que era otra mentira (hubieron muchas) y que molestaba hasta que dio datos más precisos y le creyeron
@@pazforever se llamaba Sergio Catalán. Ese rumor es falso. Al principio no le creyeron pero Dn Sergio era una persona conocida en el sector (incluso se lo habían recomendado a Carlos Páez padre como alguien que podía ayudar en la búsqueda).
No podrían haberlo retenido la primera noche que les encontró porque todavía no sabía quiénes eran los jóvenes .
Hi guys, just because I really admire Dr Canessa: 11:38, Álvaro Mangino had said, in interviews and books, that Roberto fixed his leg by hearing the cracks. A 19 yo med student, after a plane crash, composed a leg broken in pieces just by hearing how the bones craked together. Back in the world, Álvaro went to different doctors to saw if he could get a better treatment for his leg, and they all said that Roberto's intervention was the best possible, that it could not be better that that.
Then Roberto Canessa cane back home and become a children's cardiologist and help hundreds of kids is just even incredible.
He also spearheaded a volunteer project for building ventilators during the pandemic. This guy is so consistently impressive that I'm pretty sure he would have been only slightly less impressive had he never crashed in the Andes
Álvaro Mangino dijo hace pocos días que su pierna quedó en perfecto estado hasta hoy 52 años después, Roberto hubiera sido un excelente traumatólogo, aún así eligió la cardiología infantil y ganó tres veces el premio Nacional de Medicina del Uruguay.
@@zeinaalawarsi es verdad llegó a patentar un respirador artificial con elementos domésticos para el tratamiento en domicilio.
También fue candidato a la presidencia de Uruguay. Yo le hubiera votado.
No! They didn’t dramatized it a bit. They even said that if they tell the whole story, it would be even worse and harder to believe!
They did cut some parts for storytelling purposes. They didn’t fly directly fro Montevideo. Nando and Roberto waited overnight for the muleteer to return with his sons, a pencil and a piece of paper. The news of the survivors took much longer to be relayed and the operation to take place.
The rescue took two days and a group of survivors spent a final night with a rather shocked rescue team, eating the rations they were given by the Chilean Air Force.
The rescue operation itself was hazardous and dangerous. The helicopters took a big risk by flying in such a high altitude.
Yeah, I know when you first hear about this story it is hard to believe it is true, but it really happened like in the movie, the survivors told everything in the book "Society of the Snow" where this movie took its name.
It's "funny" because for once the script had to left out incredibly dramatic stuff that happened in real life because it would've been too much for a single film, life how close the helicopters that rescued them were to crash because the weather was terrible for flying.
@@florgi121 not just that. It really took two days to rescue them.
@@jacquelinea.7575 true, the fact that some of them had to stay one more night there too 🙈 i love the story of the one recuer that was nice to them (the other 2 being freaked out by the bodies) and had brought, apart from food, stuff to make them mate to drink 😭
Not sure if someone else already said but all the survivors really loved Numa and felt he was a source of hope for all of them. I just thought that was really beautiful. No one deserved to die but it is especially painful that he wasn't even supposed to be there so for them to honor him by making him the narrator was just a really special detail to me.
I keep wondering why they never mentioned him in the movie Alive though
@johnnydeleon8210 I haven't watched alive but Alive wasn't made with approval of or input from most that died or survived, so they had to make up names for the dead. Numa is practically in the movie but with some other name.
Im reading the book, and Coche Inciarte even said he irradiated so much peace, it felt as if Jesuscrist came down from up there and was around them. Also Gustavo Zerbino, one of the doctor there, even said he never complain, remained stoic and kept that strenght of his even while he was getting close to his last moment, and that he felt he gave his life to precipitate the last expedition.
@@_euphxrique wow
@@huh4206 That's true, the names of all those who died were changed in "Alive". The character who was inspired by Numa Turcatti is Rafael Cano, played by actor Michael DeLorenzo.
The whole movie is really really sad but 3 scenes just broke me:
- numa's note
- javier saying he never felt a love bigger than when he hugged his dead wife
- them trying to brush their teeth and hair when listened about the rescue
It's just so respectful how they portrayed everything, it deserved a lot more in this award season
the thing that always gets me is Nando screaming happily on the helicopter that everyone's fine, that was the first time he saw them since the day he left with Roberto (10 days prior) the relief he must have felt to see all 14 were still alive.
i started crying at the point roberto and nando saw a man and didn’t stop until the very end and then 10 more minutes
also the society scene in the hospital room at the end was heartbreaking. they're all just going through survivors guilt, and processing it all
Cuando se ponen a arreglar para el rescate, dicen los sobrevivientes que también se volvieron a poner la ropa de cada uno, hasta ese momento todo era de todos. Señal de que volvían a la "civilización"
Numa made me cry more than I have in years... I'm 27 but I can't imagine that feeling of unfairness, of knowing you will die and you have lost all your future possibilities.
Young people dying always gets me
I'm so glad Netflix gave freedom to Bayona to do this film as he wanted, big budget and a latino cast. As a latino I appreciate this. Horrifying story and one of the best films from 2023.
I feel the same, its so important how they portrayed the story with such empathy and respect. Also the latino cast is very crucial too❤
@@caprese63And also spanish direction, Bayona.
them brushing their teeth and trying to look presentable for their rescue 😢 i held the tears back until that moment.
The fact that the real life Nando held the door open for the actor version of himself at the airport made me 😭😭😭 and then the real Roberto leading the actor version of himself into the hospital 😭And Carlitos dad, that was the actual Carlitos playing his own dad. There are more people if you look through the credits
La niña rubia que abraza a los Methol en el aeropuerto es también la verdadera nieta de ellos.
And the first to come through the door be the sister💔
21:37 health care worker here 👋🏻 to answer that, yes it's real. it'll usually look like tea or cola. most causes of dark urine are dehydration, infections/urinary tract infections, jaundice or liver disease (sometimes due to bile in the urine), etc. however the most common cause is due to dehydration, which obviously would have been one of the many things they had to face in those mountains.
Just don't want to pass up a opportunity to thank a health care worker. We'll never be able to say enough thank yous. 💚
@@rakitoon that's so kind omg 🥹 thank you!! 🫶🏻
The survivor said it's black because the body starts eating itself and the liver make it look that way. Or something like that.
@@FreezingFroggie yeah, that makes sense, i was only naming some of the causes for black urine. but it's just horrible honestly, i feel so bad for them and what they went through
They did use all real names. Some of the survivors are actually in the movie, Nando is opening the door to himself at the airport, Carlitos Paez is the one listing the survivors names (so he's acting as his father there), Roberto is the doctor behind himself when the're entering the hospital, Jose Luis Inciarte is at the bar when pancho is trying to convince numa to go with them, and i think there are more
TinTin and Moncho can be seen at the airport, Gustavo is the rugby coach and Daniel is the priest’s assistant.
La casa de Numa es la verdadera casa donde él vivió y cuando llega en bicicleta, el hombre al que saluda es sobrino de Numa
One of the saddest parts of this story to me is how they were demonized when they came back because of what they did to survive. It wasn’t until family members of the deceased came forward and publicly forgave them that people stopped shaming them. I think even the pope, or higher members of the Catholic church, publicly pardoned them for what they had done and said it wasn’t a sin since there was no other way for them to survive.
What's your source?
All the survivors clearly said in varius interviews and documentaries they were never shamed and there wasn't backlash for what they had to do. And the families of the deceased understood the reasons.
@@daytripperapeople got mad because they didn't talked about it until people got suspicious and calling them out how TF did they survive that long without food.
That's what my grandfathers told me, some of the survivors went to my highschool but we weren't allowed to ask about the cannibalism.
I was 10 when that happened and i never heard anyone in my town criticizing them for that. On the contrary, people understood that was the only way they had to survive!
Yeah, i read that ppl were sus and then saw one picture with some bones, bryce points it out here! Ppl saw the bones then and they had a press conference to explain everything, ppl just had to understand the circumstances… The human body is made for survival
@@ezequielmondada6427No, no hablaron hasta que todos volvieron a Uruguay. Muchos estaban internados en el hospital de Santiago de Chile. Ellos no querían hablar hasta no ser ellos los primeros en decirles a sus familiares y los familiares de los que no volvieron. Por eso la conferencia de prensa que dan en el Gimnasio Old Cristian.
Los que no querían que dijera fue el gobierno chileno, la iglesia de Chile de ese momento. No hay que olvidarse del contexto de las cosas. Era 1972!
48:40 That mountain they climb is now called "Seler", because when Nando Parrado made it to the summit he wrote that name on a bag and left it under a rock. He was the first person to ever climb it. "Seler" was his father's name, his inspiration to keep fighting to survive.
the real survivors actually made a cameo in the movie!!!
Which one? Was it Carlitos dad?
Roberto Canesa as a doctor, Nando Parrado in the airport scene and Carlitos Paez as his own dad (i think some others did cameos but im not sure where)@@laishatrejo34
@@laishatrejo34Carlito's played his dad, the real Robert Canessa was the doctor behind the actor who played him when they were entering the hospital. The real Nando was the one who opened the door for the actor who played Nando when entering the airport. There was another in the scene when Numa’s friends were convincing him to go, he was sitting at the table in the corner. Numa’s nephew was the older gentleman who was walking at night and said hello to Numa when he was going inside his house. Numa’s family allowed the production to use there house to film the scenes.
And Nando Parrado its ay the beggining in the AirPort opening the for to his on caracter, his mother and Susy
moncho sabella outside the airport , coche impiarte by a table in the cafe where numa meets up with friends, and daniel fernandez in the church scene. @@maritzanav212
It’s a military plane. It crashed due to navigator and co-pilot error-they didn’t anticipate the strength of the headwinds they were flying against in a storm, so were not where they thought they were when they turned the plane. Of course this was all before gps, so they turned before they were supposed to due to that navigational error. Such a sad story!
I realized that the movie tried to be very respectful of the people that died (and their surviving families) for example, the Co-pilot asked for a gun and this was not portayed here. The plane mechanic (Roque, that survivied until the avalanche) went kinda crazy and asked for their papers and told them when they get rescued he was the one that was autorized to talk to the rescue crew (because he felt that as surviving crewmember from a military plane he hd the authority). Roberto (real roberto, in recent interviews) has talked candidly about him, saiying how the old movie was "so harsh to him" and how he had a kid that one day knocked on his door to ask about his father. Roberto (probably told him a white lie) told him that Roque was always talking about his small son, and never mentioned the things the survivors usually talked in the very very old interviews.
As the years go by, and the survivors get old. its like they decided to go for the best more humane side of their story. Roberto has such a big heart.
It wasn’t a military plane. It was a passenger plane flown by the military.
@@robertoperezcastro6130 It was military. It literally said "Uruguayan Air Force" in spanish on the side. They just rented it and charted the flght.
@@AlexRN it was a passenger plane that belonged to the military. That doesn’t make it a military plane. Otherwise it would have had the capacity to better deal with the Andes altitude. If a F1 pilot drives a Volvo and a Chevrolet it doesn’t make them a racecar.
If it was a military plane civilians couldn’t charter it. It would be like renting an F16.
Come on man, I grew up with this story. In Chile we are taught about the miracle of the Andes in primary school.
The movie cant posibly portait the frame of mind of the 16 survivors, but Nando and Roberto dont see themselves as heros, because a lot of the preparation for them to go out was organized by the whole team, they gave them the best clothes, more food than the others, and they excused Nando and Roberto from the daily chores (making water, cutting meat, cleaning the fuselage) .
But Nando's book (memoirs) is specially impactful, you see, he lost his sister and mother, and his father was in such a state that he sold all of Nando's belongings and even got a girlfriend. So Nando returned to an empty home, without his mother and sister.
Fortunally, he picked his life up and was (is) a tv producer, among other things, he married and had 2 daugthers and I think now he has grandkids.
Roberto is a children's heart surgeon, has saved countless of lives, and to this day he keeps working and saving lifes. He married his highschool sweeatheart and they have lots of grandchildren. All of the survivors had great lifes (2 already died, recently) and they agree this movie is as close as you can have to a real recounting of the things they lived in the montain.
This film just won 12 Goya Awards. The actor who plays Roberto, Matias Recalt won Breakthrough Actor ❤
Most of them hadn't seen a mountain before let alone snow. As it's said in the begining they were boys raised with love in houses by the sea. Uruguay is as flat as it comes.They did this with 0 training or gear, 100% will power.
The real Numa weighed 55 pounds when he died. He had no immune system to fight the infection and he rejected food.
I wish they showed more of how the Strauch Cousins were a really strong asset to the group. Everyone played a part, but I feel they get overlooked. Fito was the inventor; he created the snow melting mechanism for water and also the glasses to protect against the sun and snow, and the three cousins did the job of choosing the bodies and cutting them up to feed everybody. I know they mentioned it in the movie, but not clearly enough to show how much they contributed.
This!! Agreee
This story is 100% true. Professional climbers said, after learning about Nando and Roberto's 10-day hike, that it was impossible to do with their lack of equipment and being people who had never known snow before, since it never snows in Uruguay.
Fun fact: Uruguay is completely flat at sea level, the maximum altitude is a 600meters hill. It never snows in uruguay. They had zero experience in this environment.
I am Uruguayan, and if it snows, but it is very rare and uncommon, it is almost unlikely that it will snow in our country, but it is possible.
@@Rosie_Overload in 32 years living in uruguay ive never seen snow
@@santiagohitta I'm not saying that in recent years it has snowed, I am saying that it has rarely snowed, you can search for information if you want that snow has fallen in Uruguay, but not in recent years and it rarely happens
@@Rosie_Overload En Uruguay nunca nevó. Nevar significa que el agua de las nubes se cristaliza en las nubes formando lo que se llama copos de nieve que es lo que cae cuando nieva. En Uruguay siempre cayó agua líquida, o sea gotas de lluvia. Que en algún invierno muy frío se congela en el suelo llamándose helada o escarcha o agua-nieve. Pero jamás, en mis 61 años cayó UN SOLO COPO DE NIEVE. Por lo que en Uruguay JAMAS NEVO.
@@jotade63 como dije, si nevo en Uruguay, solo q no en los últimos años, te invito a buscar información en internet, yo tampoco me lo creia hasta q mi padre me lo confirmó.
guys, when Nando asks about his sister and mother they literally say your sister is resting and your mother is dead…that’s why the actress who payed his sister was (barely) moving. the one who died in the accident was his mom
fr these guys baked asf 😂😵💫
@@benjaminperez4454they got it eventually
While they were there, they made a promise not to eat Nando's mom or sister, Susana, and thats what they did, they kept the promise and buried the bodies, the graves are there till this day.
That promise extended to other family members too. Liliana was also off limits. That’s one reason why nando couldn’t go back to the plane, if he went back waiting for another solution he would’ve ended up eating his mom and sister.
Panchito Abal’s body was also untouched as he was Javier’s cousin. After Nando and Roberto left some of the others decided to try and locate the bodies of those who went out the back but returned after only finding Daniel Shaw’s body. As he was another cousin of the Strauch cousins his body was put to the side. A couple of days later they located Carlos Valeta’s body and his was the last body to be eaten.
@@Zozette27Have they ever said they ate Valeta? They saved the family members’ bodies but they didn’t eat all of the other bodies. I think the number of bodies completely or partially eaten goes up to 14, leaving 15 bodies untouched. And they have never mentioned which bodies they ate, not all the survivors know who those friends were. That’s a secret that belongs to the Strauch cousins, Nando, Canessa, and Zervino.
Los strauch nunca dijeron que cuerpos sí usaron, se supo que 15 cuerpos estaban todavía enteros. Confirmaron que algunos cuerpos no los habían tocado pero no cuales si, y dicho por ellos eso se lo llevarán a la tumba. El padre de Vasco les preguntó si podía ir a la montaña a por su hijo para enterrarlo en Uruguay, les estaba preguntando en realidad como se iba a encontrar el cuerpo de su hijo y le dijeron que no lo habían usado. Así como dijeron que al piloto y al copiloto no los pudieron sacar de la cabina, lo hicieron los rescatistas antes de quemar los restos del avión.
@@_bella2345 not too mention that as the snow continued to thaw the bodies would start to decompose anyway.
They fell in the middle of the Andes, exactly 3 kilometers from the dividing line between Argentina and Chile. They were on the Argentine side and the place is called Valley of Tears. The name of the valley was already there before the accident.
Y’all should watch - if you haven’t - the short documentary on the making of this. It’s so good & by the director of The Impossible! Almost all of the effects are practical 😮
And, this movie is the first time the survivors granted permission for their names to be used. Reading up on this story is insane. There’s an interesting quote about them all seeing Numa as Christ-like because of who he was for them on the mountain. And with him being the last to pass before rescue it hurts so much more to have him narrate.
Not exactly. The families of those who died granted permission for their names to be used. The names of the survivors were already used in the 1993 movie.
@@miller-joel I confirm - all their real names were used in the book and in the earlier film - both those who perished, and the survivors.
@@miller-joel NO, MUCHOS NO DIERON PERMISO EN ALIVE Y POR ESO CAMBIARON LOS NOMBRES EN LA PELICULA.
@@soledadvasquez8256 You have it backwards. Almost all of them are using their real names. Just look at the credits.
@@rakitoon no, Numa por ejemplo tenía otro nombre en la película de 1993
"Numa can't die because he's the narrator" 😭😭😭
Thank you for reacting to this movie. I've watched it like ten times by now, I watch it every time I get to know a new fact about what happened up there. Cried every single time ofc.
There's a fact that I know and that I think is INSANE:
Nando had a skull fracture and everyone thought he was dead so they left him outside in the cold, that helped him bc he was in a coma for three days and the cold made the swelling in his brain go down, he almost quite literally resurrected on the third day to save his friends
Rob was STRESSED in this one 😭❤
The distance Roberto and nando traveled in their search for help was about 33 miles over the course of the 10 days
It took them 3 days to climb the first mountain. They could still see them from the plane 3 days in.
I heard one of the survivors in an interview, and speaking about this film he said that "it shows things quite well but in a nice way. If the events had been shown really how they happened, people would simply leave the movie theater." Great reaction ! Greetings from Argentina
En realidad por este tipo de comentarios, ahora quiero tener la versión de la película extendida.
(Esto pasa porque en mi país y la ciudad en donde vivo no existen los libros de los supervivientes en físico y solo vivo a base delos comentarios xd)
The seasons are reversed in the South Hemisphere. Winter is June-September and Summer is December-March.
Yup! I live in Australia and it's weird to me to think about how other people don't experience Summer in December.
@@mgp1203 Haha as a Swede to me experiencing Christmas without snow sounds very weird but I bet you guys are used to Christmas being warm. I'd love to visit Australia some day but It couldn't be further away lol
@@Quzga Yo soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina y no me puedo imaginar una navidad con nieve. Acá la navidad es con 30-40°C
@@QuzgaChristmas is soooo hot, all the images of Santa are him on swimwear lol but it's way more fun cause you get to party in Christmas and new year without freezing
@@tanita6234 Oh yeah, I haven't enjoyed having -15 here much. I would rather live somewhere warm ...
19:27 "Raccoon eyes" are usually caused by a basal skull fracture (BSF). The basal portion of the skull is the lower portion where the brain rests. When a fracture occurs, symptoms such as raccoon eyes may appear. BSF can occur from car accidents, falls, and other sources of head trauma.
Raccoon eyes are a symptom, not a disease; they are not dangerous in themselves, but can be a sign of severe head trauma.
Fernando Parrado had BSF and was in a coma for the first 3 days.
He was almost knocked out of the fuselage because his face was so deformed from swelling that he was considered near death. That was, ironically, what saved his life: the involuntary fact that his head was left on the snow plus the fact that he was not hydrated was what cured his brain swelling, doctors say. Nowadays skull fractures are treated exactly the same way, cooling the brain as much as possible to avoid swelling and hydrating the patient very little to avoid edema.
“Roberto looks pretty drippy right now” gave me the little laugh I needed during such a tension filled film. (Around 41:42)
minute?
@@submarinos around 41:42
them not understanding the 'necklaces' are rosaries has me weak...
As a Uruguayan myself, I’m so happy you guys decided to go with this movie. It hits too close to home for me. 😭there are only approx. 3Mil Uruguayans in the WORLD. 😭 which is crazy to think about when in the U.S alone, there are 335+ mil. people.
I know how you feel! His previous film, the impossible really related to me as a Swede. We are also a small country and the 2004 tsunami was the worst loss of life in hundreds of years in our country, most people had a relative who was missing or died over there as Thailand was such a popular Christmas destination.
I had already grown up reading about the rugby team and my mother told me when I was young but seeing this film was just something else, really touched my heart..
I truly hope it wins an oscar! One of the best films I've seen in years, and I hope English speakers don't skip out on it because it's in Spanish. But I imagine as an Uruguayan the movie was even more emotional for you.
The fact that they found unbelievably talented actors that are Uruguayan, portraying Uruguayans, is just proof that proper representation in TV and film is not only possible, but badly needed. The skill of these actors is insane. A-listers getting paid millions wouldn't give a shit; these actors gave everything to these roles.
I’m also Uruguayan and it makes me so happy that this story (which I’ve known my whole life) is now known globally by different generations. I’m so proud of our little country!
The rugby team is uruguayan. They were going to Chile. They crashed in the Andes. They thought they were on the Chilean side of the mountains but they actually crashed on the Argentinian side of the mountains. That’s why they were so lost and so far away from Chile.
Thanks for watching it in its original language! I watched this movie about 10 times, all 10 times I cried. Numa's death still hurts me, he was so few days away from returning. It is the voice of all the heroes who did not return.
The plane fell in the Andes due to pilot error. They relied on the amount of time they had been flying. If they had looked at the clock they would have simply known that it was impossible to cross the mountain range in so few minutes. It was a human error that cost them life.
Another fact is that Nando wanted to return to tell his father that he was alive, he did everything for him, and in those two months his father had already sold all his things and had even started a relationship with another woman. It was very difficult for Nando because he felt really alone, even the following Christmas he waited outside Roberto's house until midnight so he could spend it with him.
I haven't cried this hard watching a movie in a WHILE. The fact that it's a true story makes it so heartbreaking
Bryce LMAOO “hold up Roberto looks drippy” he really did. The Actor won a prestigious award for his portrayal recently too.
They said your mom died, not the sister... the sister died a few days later, so yes her eyes were moving because she was awake. And ofc they tried making several fires, obviously didn't work. The meat is practically frozen so it stays "fresh"
They crashed in Mendoza (Argentina) but they thougt that they were in Chile.
One of the reasons of the accident, was that the pilot thought that they had already crossed The Andes. The pilot turned wrong and ended up between really high mountains and at a low altitud. The weather didn't help because the air pressure, did not let the plane rise again.
The film is a cinematic masterpiece, not only because of the aesthetics, art, photography, make-up or script, but because they managed to tell the story as real and truthful as possible, to the point that the survivors actively participated in it and say that when they see it they relive in their minds everything that happened. It is wonderful the way in which Bayona manages to show the harshness of what happened with an artistic touch and a strong emotional charge and for the first time not only highlighting the figure of the survivors as heroes but also those who died and did not make it out of the mountain, which is why Numa's voice as narrator is so important. Each of the actors met the real person they were playing and most of them managed to create a bond with them, moving from interpretation to reality and giving the importance it deserves to what each survivor felt, because as they have already said, each one remembers the mountain in a unique way. THANKS FOR REACTING! It's not getting a lot of attention from reactors :(
I couldn't stop thinking about this movie for days after watching it
Same. I saw it last Sunday. Still gripping me that I bought the book. Amazing story.
They were in the mountains 73 days instead of 71. Nando and Roberto walked for 10 days (day 71), two helicopters went to the mountains on day 72 and took 5 or 6 of the 14 that were in the fuselage. The rest spent another night with three rescuers, weather conditions were so bad they couldn’t fly back to the mountains until they day after (day 73).
The two avalanches were real and the survivors have said that it was the worst thing that happened to them and that it was way worst than what the movie shows. They were buried for four days and eight people that could definitely have made it until the end, died in those events. The note from Numa (is a passage from the Bible) was real and Numa’s passing is what made Roberto finally decide to do the expedition. Going earlier would’ve been impossible due to the cold and weather conditions. In their expedition, they saw avalanches passing by as they were going down the mountains. Roberto almost died of dysentery (that’s why he could not get in the helicopter). They had to climb a huge rock that was blocking their way and found 1000 more dangers on their expedition. Those ten days need a different movie.
You can see the real Roberto at the end of the movie, he is the doctor that receives the actor that plays him in the hospital. Nando Is also in the movie, he opens the door at the airport to his family.
Some were in the mountain 72 days and some were there for 73. The rescue operations were too dangerous so a rescue team spent the night with a group of survivors , who ate a three day food supply they left them in one night (who wouldn’t) until they were rescued the following day.
Love this movie. There's about a million little facts about the story that aren't in the movie but it is very very close to what really happened. Some of the survivors worked closely with the director to reach that level of authenticity. Also, there had been a movie about it before but it was made by americans (no offense lmao) and it was pretty bad. This is an all-latin american cast, with most of the actors being argentinian and uruguayan, so, love to see it.
yessss the fact that the movie is in Spanish with Uruguayan and Argentinian actors already makes it so much better imo
13:56 one did. and got swallen by very soft snow on his way back.
When they are speaking to the co-pilot you can hear screaming in the background calling out to him "Valeta, Valeta!" and all the guys that were looking from the window go running to the back side.
The scene was filmed but did not made the cut, in fact there are hours of deleted scenes. when the thaw was advanced they found him roughly where they saw him disappear.
Had no idea they were running to Valeta. Amazing detail.
@@one_degenerated_ontarian Indeed, In this video you can barely hear it. but in the movie is clearer.
5:35 The captain f'ed up. He thought he was over Curico, across the Andes, and made a right turn...right into the mountains.
the actors actually made the same walk as the real survivors, so what you see in the movie is not exagerated, they really walked through all that.
RIP Numa Turcati
You will always be their hope and hero ❤
Some of the real survivors called the actor for Numa by “Numa”, they said that him personality on real life reminded them of real Numa
The idea for "Yellowjackets" was largely influenced by the Donner Party (1846-1847) and the Andes flight disaster (1972), both true stories about people who resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Not cannibalism . That’s when you kill people in order to eat them. They eat the flesh of those already dead . Anthropophagy is the correct term.
I spent almost the entire movie with my mouth agape. I also made the comment that even though I knew people survived I couldn’t actually believe it
The real Roberto Canessa became a pediatric cardiologyst and you can see him in this movie as the doctor walking behind the actor who plays him, in the scene were they are being welcome at the hospital min 57:48
Yeah, they think the pilots turned north too soon before crossing all the Andes to Chile (they thought they already passed Curicó, a chilean city, therefore the pilots last words), they started loosing altitude to prepare for landing.... so they crushed in the middle of the mountain range.
There's a video out there in youtube explaining it with google maps
That scene where Nando hugged his sister, and his friend told that his mom was dead. The sister wwas still alive but unconscious that's why you saw her eye ball moving
i just watched this movie last night and went "i really hope reel-time watch this"
55:19 Real Carlitos Páez (cameo) as his own father Carlos Páez Vilaró, reading the list of survivors.
57:47 Real Roberto Canessa (cameo) as the doctor who recieves his own character at the hospital (he's a doctor in real life, an awarded children's cardiologist).
Guys, the real Nando Parrado is the one who opens the door in the airport to the actors who play himself, sister and mom. The real Roberto Canessa is seen as a doctor behind young Roberto when they are entering the hospital. Survivor Carlitos Páez plays his own father, a famous painter named Carlos Páez Vilaró who was the one that read the survivors list for a Uruguayan radio. Other survivors who made cameos in the movie where Daniel Fernández who is in the church; Ramón Sabella is in the airport next to Mr and Mrs Methol when they are saying goodbye to their kids; José Luis Inciarte is reading a newspaper in the bar while Numa is being convinced to go by his friends
This movie is having a great impact for those who know the story, those who are just learning about it, the survivors themselves and most importantly for the families of the people who did not return from the mountain, and do you know which one it is? the fact that this film pays a great tribute to the people who died... it gave them a voice, name and respect and shows that they were also fundamental... that is why the story is told from the perspective of a person who didn't come back (Numa) and do you know what Bayona (the director) did? Before the premiere of the film, he brought together the survivors and the families of the deceased to watch the film and everyone was delighted with the result, one woman (Marcelo's sister, who died in the avalanche) was someone who never wanted to watch anything of what happened to him and it was like that for many years and when she decided to go see the movie she says that she felt something was freed inside her and that it warmed her heart when she saw with the respect that they had made the film, if you want you can go see it that interview on Bayona's Instagram because he uploaded it there.
This movie (and the whole story) makes you go through every human emotion that can be named. Such an amazing and heartbreaking experience to watch this, very glad you guys liked it
The two avalanches hitting them will forever be the most jaw dropping scene for me
There are 2 main issues about using fire.
1. Lack of oxygen at high altitude plus low temperature make it very hard to get a good fire going. Would need lots of fuel to get it hot and keep it so.
2. What would they use as fuel? They did not have much stuff which they could burn. Most materials they had available were needed. Clothes and even seat materials were key to keep them warm. Burn those materials would have been a terribly short term measure. Its great that they did think long term.
They really could not afford to burn whatever they had. So it was too hard to do it and not worth it as a long term option.
Thank you so much for this reaction! Since the movie came out, I have been waiting for more people to talk about it. I think this story not only captures the ability of a human being existing and the power of unity, but Bayona also did an amazing job by breaking a language barrier with the only usage of pure emotion. Muchísimas gracias 💗💗💗
Funny fact: Carlitos Paez took his shirt off because he said he wanted to be " tanned" because he was planning to go to " punta del este" a Uruguay tourist spot.( They all got burn by the reflection of the light and heat on the snow.)
Gustavo Zerbino came back to the plane fuselage almost blind after his handmade glasses got lost in the storm.
Their teeth were lose because of scurvy cause by lack of nutrients like vitamin c.
Alvaro Mangino the guy with the broken leg help by making water and scrape bone powder so they can eat calcium powder.
Some of them couldn't help much around because they got altitude sickness the wrose sick was Javier Methol and after his wife Liliana passed away he used to talk to her body, one day a storm came and bury her body.
When the rescue team arrives to the crash site the helicopters only took 6 of the boys because of weight, the rest stay one more day with 3 rescue paramedics. One this rescue paramedics was Claudio Lucero who had a gun on his belt and show it to the boys, refuse to go inside the plane fuselage. In the contrary to another paramedic names Sergio Diaz who went inside the plane fuselage and sleep that night with them. Paramedics had 3 days worth of food and the boys eat it all that night. They were graphic pictures that leak to tabloids and newspapers, because Sergio Diaz always documented all his rescue missions with pictures. The pics he took at the crash site were stolen by Claudio Lucero and sold to the tabloids. Sergio diaz felt in to depression because he was blamed and died a year later of the boys rescue. Claudio Lucero still today gives interviews saying the plane crash was planned and the boys stayed for so long because they all wanted was fame, sell books and make movies. For some reason he just hates the survivors.
From all the 16 survivors 2 died of cancer Javier Methol and Coche Inciarte. The cowboy man died in 2020 he was 92.
There's some survivors that don't like to talk about the experience one of them is Roberto " el gordo" François. Pancho delgado was anesthetized because he was terrified of going back on a plane to fly back home.
Lucero es una mala persona.
They did not eat the bodies of the relatives. Those bodies were set aside and were Susana and Eugenia Parrado, Liliana Methol and also Panchito Abal as he was a cousin of Javier Methol. MOst of the bodies of people who went out of the back were also uneaten. Before Nando and Roberto left they were running low on food which is why Nando said they could use his sister’s and mother’s bodies if they really had to. However after Nando left it the others decided to look for the bodies higher up on the mountain but they only located Daniel Shaw’s body and he was another cousin of the Strauch cousins so his body was put aside. A couple of days later they found the body of Carlos Valeta and he his body was the last they ate. The did not eat the bodies of the last three who died which meant a total of 13 bodies were not eaten.
This movie is directed by JA Bayona, the same director as The Impossible. At minute 52:00, Sach says, "this is almost impossible," which is funny because, according to the director, he was reading the book that the screenplay of this movie was based on while shooting The Impossible, and it was his inspiration for giving that movie its title.
This movie is amazing!!!! the story is so heart-wrenching, but to me it's the greatest story of survival, resilience and endurance ever. The more you find out about this event, the more your mind is absolutely blown by the fact that this was real!! I can't even begin to explain how much I admire the survivors. Also the fact that the movie is in Spanish with Uruguayan and Argentinian actors makes it so much more special, so much more authentic! I'm so happy you guys watched this movie, thanks for always listening to your audience, we appreciate you!
I love how this film gave voice to everyone how could not come back home, how much sentiment and dedication it has from J. Bayona, all the actors, everyone involved in this. I love this is all latin american cast and in spanish, to me it makes it feel so real to what really happened up there in the Andes. I love how much the survivors loved this movie that captured their feelings during the most terrible moment of their lifes. This is a film with so much heart, i really hope it wins all its nominations, what a masterpiece. As a latina (Peruvian here!), im so proud of this movie and all the recognition its receiving
Gustavo was the one who took care of Numa most of the time and he still talks about him with tears in his eyes
The best story and the Best movie i've ever seen. The book "The society of the snow" is excellent. I've learned much more from this story than from all the philodophers, teachers, authors, etc. It changed my life.
Roberto has said that if he can help someone by telling his tale, then everything he suffered in the montain was "worth it" . If you can, read Nando's memoirs, made me cry so much and It had a big impact on me, Roberto's book is also great, for different reasons, as its more focused in his life as a hearth surgeon for children, (also made me cry rivers).
By the way, I belive all of the survivers did travel again on plains and such, also, a detail that isnt show in the movie. The real Fernando Parrado tells that he's alive by sheer luck, 2 times... first when he bearded the plain he had a window seat, but a friend asked to change because he wanted to take pictures of the mountains, Fernando agreed to change thinking he had to be mature, but inside he was pissed he had to change his window seat, during the crash a blade of the engine sliced the leg of the guy that changed seats with him, and when the plain stopped Fernando hit the front wall so hard he had a broken skull and went in to coma, his friends though he was dead at first, and put him near the hole on the cabin with the head in the snow... that saved him, that reduced the swelling of his brain and thats why he survived that injury, to wake up 3 days later, and then to be one of the two to walk in search for help.
It was carlitos who switched seats
They flew back to Uruguay on a 707 or something like that. And they eventually went back to the crash site.
All of them exccept Bobby Francois that didnt fly again. Bobby doesnt have much time in the movie because he didnt do much. He was letting himself die, he said he didnt care if he lived or not, so the other suvivors fed him. One time they told him "if you dont work and help with the chores (making water, cleaning up) we wont feed you". He answered, "Fair enough" and shgrugged. The others still fed him. They talk candidly about Bobby, they say he was like a little brother they had to look after and that gave them a purpose. To this day Bobby says this is giving him too mcuh credit. Bobby never gives interviews, and seldom goes to meetings. He lives in a ranch in the middle of Nowhere in Uruguay. However, he has helped Roberto and the other survivors with their charity organization, he even met and hosted a weekend fishing trip with ROque (the plane mechanic)'s son where they talked about his father along with Roberto. I think Bobby isnt a bad guy, just his persoanlity is so weird.
@@KaoruGoyle he isn’t weird, we cant expect everyone to react the same way. Id even say nando is weirder lol
They travel the world doing motivational speeches. However, in 1972 Roberto Canessa wanted to travel back to Uruguay by car, but he had to reluctantly agree to fly with the rest of the team. There was an entire country waiting for them back home.
My parents are from Argentina and I’ve lived a good part of my childhood there, so I’m very familiar with this story! It makes you appreciate how lucky you are, but it also showcases the perseverance of the human spirit. I don’t know if I could survive in the same circumstances! Love the videos :)
Same here. Family lives in aifornia but both my parents are from Buenos Aires. My father remembers watching the original news broadcast when they found them.
Ps: the plane crashed because the pilot started turning north and decending in the middle of the Andes thinking that they had already "passed Curicó" but they didn't. He was a very experienced pilot, maybe to much confidence but there's still a mistery of exactly what made him have such a badic mistake. Someone sayed that if he had just look at the clock he would have noticed because in 15 mins you cannot pass the Andes
They didn't eat all of the bodies, those were Nando's mom and sister, Javier Methol wife Liliana, Vasco echavarren, Marcelo and the firts bodies were covered by the avalanche so thats why they said they practically chew the bones because not all the bodies were eaten. When Nando and Roberto left the Strauch cousins make a plan b wich was if in 10 days they didn't were rescue the Strauch were the next team to walk out down the mountain. Coche inciarte planned to commit suicide on December 22 if they were rescued because he was really sick. They make jokes about who was going to died and be eaten next, for example they told one of the weak ones " you don't died because u are just bones" they make bets about whom was going to died next between coche inciarte and Roy Harley , coche laughed about it, but Roy didn't like it and said to stop making those kind of jokes.
Gustavo Zerbino has said he believes Numa died of septic syndrome because he had 3 large infected wounds on his back so even if his leg injured healed he was going to died because his blood was already contaminated. Numa started to eat after the avalanche but he didn't really eat much. Coche Inciarte was another that in the last days was not eating anymore because he was giving up and Fito Strauch got mad at him. Roy Harley was actually weak and afraid when he went with Nando and Roberto to the plane tail to fix the radio. And in the way back he couldn't walk anymore and told them to leave him behind, so Nando Parrado yell at him and walk away then he came back and practically carried Roy Harley in arms back to the plane fuselage. Roy Harley was one of the wrose at the hospital and doctors actually said he was not going to survive because his heart and body were too weak but he made it.
4:24 i love when zuff has like a second of pure genius in amongst the buffoonery. patrick coded.
There's so much information about the real people that goes straight to my heart. Like Coco's really long letter to his girlfriend (I think that actor is fenomenal, so sweet) , like Gustavo Zerbino that spent a month visiting the families of the dead people and giving them some belongings (that were in that suitcase) to have a better grieving process, Marcelo's sister that feels like with this movie she can finally heal some really deep wound (I think the reaction of families and survivors is the most beautiful thing of all),
the Strauch cousins that were so so important for survival and are still really emotionally taken when they speak about this, the son of the pilot who contacted Canessa years later to know about the accident, the good luck of a guy who partied so hard the day before that he missed the flight and instead a lady that had a flight reserved later in the day to go to her daughter's wedding in Chile took his place (very bad luck :( ), Carlitos's later struggle with drugs which he calls "his other big mountain", etc. There's really a whole deep universe per character/person (I was a little obsessed to know more XD). As a chilean who knew just the basics about this accident, and specially a latin american, the way this story was made and tolds is SO different than north americanized movies based on latin cultures like Viven for example. It opens up a path for big budget films in spanish (and other languages) and with our real diverse cultures. And I think it is so interesting and daring as a movie that Bayona tried not to have a leading role, not the whole movie. The lead in this movie is a relay sport, and they all played a singular and fundamental part in companionship and survival in that hell, even if they are not the most named.
Let’s gooo didn’t expect this reaction, so happy more people are seeing this movie
The way I RUUUNNN here the moment I saw the video up. As a southamerican is so important for me to see people from around here be a biiig deal on Hollywood
Thanks for your reaction guys!
Same here 😅 I love seeing people from USA reacting to this movie.
no but for real, since i watched this movie, everytime i’m struggling or being lazy i ask myself what would nando parrado do in my place? and just do it. incredible human beings, from nando, to roberto, tintin, carlitos, the strauch cousins. everyone was so important and key parts of the survival.
I just realized watching a reaction to this movie that at the beginning Numa says, “do you want to make me cry?” to Pancho and later on Pancho got him to cry when he had lost all hope and kind of freed him❤ or at least relieved him
It's actually less dramatic than what really happened; so yes, the two avalanches happened.
As an uruguayan, THANK YOU for taking the time to watch this movie. We grow up with this story it is fucking legendary for us and im so happy that many new people are getting to know about it thanks to Bayona. ❤ It really does teach us all about strength and hope and love and most importantly friendship.
LEST'S GOOOO
Aguante Uruguay y aguante Argentina!!!
As an Argentinian I'm proud to say that most of the actors are from here. Uruguay and Buenos Aires have an almost exact culture and this is such a huge story in the Uruguayan history. I'm so glad you could react to this tough yet beautiful story from my brothers on the other side of the river
VAMO ARRIBA BO
52:04 Scientists, alpinists and even National Geographic have named physically impossible too, since they weren't professionals, wore no oxygen tanks, no equipment. What Nando and Roberto did is "the most incredible human story of survival of all time" as National Geographic says so.
Nothing was dramatized, actually there were a lot of true things that were left out because the movie was almost 3 hours long.
@@carolinaelichalt7913totally true, Bayona even said that they have +600h of footage 😩 We want a extended version :(
Gracias por reaccionar a la película. La historia es un suceso del que todos los uruguayos somos conscientes desde temprana edad y gracias a este proyecto, esta tragedia está llegando a más personas. Saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾
The doubt they have about why the accident occurred was due to human error.
The pilot, as they say, traveled south to look for a lower pass to cross the Andes mountain range, but mistakenly and due to the bad weather he could not see where he was going, he miscalculated the time of arrival, and believed that he had reached Curico (Chile) and asked the Chilean control tower for permission to descend, the tower gave him permission (also not knowing the real location of the plane) and then the pilot, thinking he was already in Chilean territory, took the path towards the north descending to landing in Santiago de Chile.
His mistake was to miscalculate the crossing of the mountain range, when he thought he had crossed it he was in the middle of the mountain range, he was still missing to reach Curico, so when he turned north he entered the mountain range without knowing it, and began to descend, then the bad weather, the effect of the effects of the warm Argentine wind and the cold winds from the mountains create that absorption effect or "air hole" which makes the plane descend sharply even more; In addition, the plane had a certain limit to climb and could not climb any further, which meant that when they realized that they were going to collide, it could not cross the mountain. The pilot then tried to avoid it so as not to collide head-on, but ended up hitting the rear of the plane. against the mountain
The plane falls into a frozen glacier in Argentine territory, but as the pilot believes that they were already in Chile, he tells the survivors, even more confusing them about his location; That's why Nando thought that when they climbed the mountain they would see green valleys, but they were very far away, that's why they walked for 10 days crossing the mountain range to the Chilean side, without knowing that they were in Argentina and that they also had Argentine towns closer
This story has been told many times, but what is so beautiful about the society of the snow is the decision to tell the story from the perspective of somebody who didn’t make it out alive. Previous versions of the story always told it from Nando’s point of view like he’s the “main character” hero of all of them, and of those who died were just dispensable in the background. But this movie shows that they were all victims of the same circumstance, how they worked together to keep as many alive as possible, and some died trying to save more. and just because you didn’t survive didn’t mean they weren’t equally heroes. The survivors loved that idea so much they were proud to have this story told again, not to mention the Latin cast and attention to detail. It’s definitely the best and most respectful retelling yet.
Climbing those mountains to escape seems impossible, and it pretty much is. But comes down to pure determination to live. Literally nothing to lose, highly likely to die during attempt, but certain death if they dont try. So might as well try!
LO QUE LO HACE AUN MÁS INCREIBLE ES QUE URUGUAY ES UN PAIS QUE NO CONOCE LA NIEVE, Y SE IBAN A SANTIAGO DE CHILE DONDE HABIA UNA TEMPERATURA FRESCA PERO NO EL FRIO DE 30 GRADOS BAJO CERO, POR LO QUE ESA GENTE LLEVA ROPA MUY LIVIANA
Santiago nunca ha tenido una temperatura fresca de octubre a diciembre. Es un bol de calor atrapado entre dos cordilleras.
I'm glad you liked this movie, it's really one misfortune after another what happened to them but that in the end there are survivors is really impressive and inspiring
I love that they know geography, unlike other reactors who didn't even know where Uruguay was at 😂
Its the closest it could have been to what actually happened accordinh to the survivors which makes it so much more devastating but really special
50:17 I found an interview that Nando gave in 2007 to the Irish Examiner's rugby analyst, Donal Lenihan, very interesting. Title: My 35-year wait to meet the resurrection man. He talked a lot about his life after the accident.
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They were the first to climb this mountain. In it, Nando wrote the name of his father Seler with lipstick on a bag (he was the reason he was motivated to continue). Later the mountain was even called Mount Seler. And many visit this place.
The accident occurred on the Argentine side of the Andes, province of Mendoza. Nearby is the ski center "Las Leñas"
Due to an error in reading the instruments, the pilot believed that he had already crossed the mountain range and was on the Chilean side of the Andes at the height of the city of Curico, 100 km further west than where they really were and when beginning the descent towards Santiago which is 180km in a straight line north from Curico.
I've watched a few documentaries over the years chronicling this tragedy. It is still heart-wrenching and fascinating at the same time. Many of the survivors are still with us.