127 Hours has an IQ Score of 149/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
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The TVI Take
Danny Boyle's 2010 adaptation of Aron Ralston's memoir, about the canyoneer who amputated his own arm to escape a boulder in Utah's Blue John Canyon. James Franco carries the film through Boyle's compression of immobility into kinetic editing.
The structural problem of dramatizing one body alone is solved through hallucination, video diary, and audio memory.
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