Samuel Theising Cultural Project La Sociedad de la Nieve is a portrayal of the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes that left over 20 people stranded and still alive. It follows a group of rugby players and their friends and family as they make their way to Chile for a sporting event, stopped short due to the place tragically being pulled down deep in the Andes mountains at the tail end of the winter. The crash killed 11 of the passengers or crew initially, though the following 72 days being trapped claimed all but 16 of the initial 45 human lives aboard the plane. Due to this prolonged survival effort with no food, the survivors were eventually forced to cannibalize the dead passengers, whose bodies were preserved by the blistering cold. …show more content…
Eventually Fernando Parrado and Roberto Canessa got their chance and took a 10-day trek across the mountain range, eventually being found by a Chilean herdsman. The movie has stunning visuals, owed to the crew filming on site in the mountains, including the actual crash site, in a bid to portray the events as accurately as possible. The actors were also held to a strict diet, forcing them to lose weight during filming at the same rate as the survivors did back in 1972. There are arguably three main characters within the narrative the movie portrays, Numa Turcatti, Roberto Canessa, and Nando Parrado. These three carry most of the notable storylines throughout the runtime, though all of the survivors are important to the story and have their own individual storylines, such as the few survivors who took over procuring the flesh of their comrades, allowing the others to eat without having to think of their friends and family, and without having to know who it was they were eating. Numa was one of the most tragic figures in this event, already filled to the brim with tragedy. He was not on the rugby team but instead was traveling with his friend, Pancho, who