The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience, the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how the survivors had to accomplish particular essential needs in order to ensure their physiological and psychological health. The movie "Alive" is a fascinating story that demonstrates heroism and faith through a team mainly consisted of teenage boys. In addition, this movie emphasizes and displays the perseverance and interminable will to survive and pull through together by manipulating different tools and objects to meet their needs. This remarkable movie provides many examples and insights for the vital needs that were met by various characters.
It is well known that without the 4 basic human needs of excitement, affection, recognition and security; one cannot be psychologically sound or stable. In this movie; the psychological need of excitement is displayed where Rafael, Juan and Zerbino diverge from their usual routine and slide down the mountains after finding the tail end of the plane. They strived to find excitement on a small scale even in the horrific situation that they were placed in. The act of bonding, support and cooperation such as peer encouragement, hugs and optimistic discussion displayed acts of affection and recognition. The affection was widely spread through the kind words and caring actions, while recognition was also demonstrated by peer praise for logical and helpful suggestions. Such example is shown when Canessa praises Carlitos for the suggestion to use the plane seats to walk around the snow and the seat covers to use as blankets. The