Should you watch Society of the Snow?
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Society of the Snow
Film · 2023
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
The sides of Society of the Snow
- A Uruguayan rugby team's plane crashing in the Andes
- Seventy two days on a glacier
- An impossible choice to stay alive
Society of the Snow is good for you if…
- you want to be moved by young men holding each other together.
- you want to feel the cold, the hunger and the avalanche.
- you want the 1972 crash told with respect for those who died.
Society of the Snow is bad for you if…
- you can't face death and the survivors' choice on screen.
- you won't watch a film in Spanish with subtitles.
- nearly two and a half hours is too much for one evening.
About: faith · brotherhood · grief · survival
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