On October 13th, 1972, a plane carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes Mountain Range on a flight from Uruguay to Chile. For more than two months, isolated in below freezing temperatures, these 16 survivors endured the worst conditions imaginable. They had no food, causing them to resort to cannibalism of fallen passengers, no water or heat, and overall little survival skills. In order to survive, the survivors had to make difficult decisions under immense moral dilemmas that today seem unimaginable. The film La Sociedad de la Nieve (J.A. Bayona, 2023), based on a true story, seeks to affect the viewer’s mood and understanding of the story by portraying the psychological torment sixteen survivors endured in the Andes mountains with the affective …show more content…
Soon after his death, the audience understands that, throughout the whole story, the group is the lead since they all worked together to survive. Numa was an important character meant to give a voice to the people who passed. It is an incredible way to tell a true story because most of the time, in films like these, the stories are from survivors because they lived to tell the tale. J.A. Bayona created this film to tell the story of the fallen, which the film effectively produces through Numa’s character. This film masters survival with human connections that can never be forgotten, even in the worst moments of someone’s life. Directors carefully choose movements of the camera and frame the scenes to position someone’s attention to specific actions that are pertinent to a story. During any scene where something went wrong in La Sociedad de la Nieve, the visual field became distorted due to the use of fisheye lens. At one point in the story they fix a radio, and the camera pans to the boys' celebrations. Yet, the first piece of news heard was that the rescue mission had been called off, stripping away any hope that was