Film Analysis: I Am Alive

In the survival documentary titled I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash a team of rugby players board a plane and it crashes. There are a total of thirty-three people who boarded the plane and sixteen people survive. The documentary deals with loss, survival, and adaptations. Although seventeen of the plane’s flight attendees had perished on site of the crash or passed away over time the other sixteen attendees had to deal with loss, survival, and adapting to their surroundings. The plane crash had killed majority of the attendees and some of them were family members to the survivors. A man by the name of Nando Parrado had his sister and mother on board the plane, and they had passed away close to beginning of the seventy days that the others were alive. Nando had survived and he had to deal with his family members being gone the rest of his life. He now celebrates life and cherishes the memories he had from his mother and sister. I have also had to deal with the loss of a loved one and I had to deal with the loss of my grandmother at the age of five. I as well as Nando have been trying to cherish my memories of my loved ones that have passed away by celebrating their lives and remembering the happy times.
At the time of the crash there were roughly eighteen members of the plane alive and they had to split little chocolates and the drinks from the plane to survive for a while until they could eat the other people’s flesh for their survival. The mother and sister of Nando had passed away about a week or two after the crash and when Nando had left to go find civilization the people he left behind he allowed to eat his mother and sister in order to survive. I have not of course been in this exact situation but if I was in the situation for eating another person in order to survive I would as long as I could maintain composure while eating said