“Frozen”

“Frozen”

I am a big avid fan of survival challenges and stuff like that. I always love watching people on TV getting chased and running for their lives. Weird isn’t it? But believe it or not, it really made me feel this certain excitement and thrill while watching it, every time it gets to the point of chasing.

Now, I have here a movie, entitled “Frozen”, which I found really interesting as well. As far as I remember, the first time I watched it on the cinema, I almost cried due to some of its’ intense content.

At Mount Holliston, snowboarders Dan Walker, his girlfriend Parker O'Neil and his best friend Joe Lynch don't have enough money to buy lift tickets. Parker bribes Jason, a lift-worker, with one hundred dollars. When the system is nearing closure, they force Jason to let them have one last pass. However, Jason needs to resolve a problem and his colleague misunderstands his instructions and stops the lift. The trio of skier and snowboarders gets stranded on the chairlift near the top of the mountain. When they see that the lights of the ski resort had been turned off, they need to make a choice: leave the chairlift or freeze to death. And from this, starts their awesome, intense, and deadly journey. Making the long story short, Dan died, since he jumped off from the cable car which is approx. 100m high. He broke his leg-bone in a gross manner, that his legs really get inverted, and his bones snapped out real loud as he fell down when he broke his legs. But that is not what killed him. What killed him is when wolves smelled his blood, roam around him, and eventually attacked him, and ate him. Joe on the other hand, tried to escape the cable car by climbing the cable, but unfortunately, he find himself too heavy, and the cable itself seemed snappy, so he didn’t continue, scared that they may just be devoured by the wolves if ever they fell down. The next day, the cable car’s cable snapped out, and so, they fell. They tried to escape, but unfortunately, Joe died, and only Parker survived in the end. Honestly, I really don’t know how should I demonstrate the exact events in that movie through this, but I guess it would be better if you just watch it yourself and maybe, you’ll get what I’m trying to say. Trust me it’s not a waste of time and money, really.

Frozen is a type of “Plain Movie”. Well, a person can get stocked on a cable car and have the same situation as the characters’. But unfortunately, there are THESE some things that are a bit far to reality.

·        * Running while in a Panic Attack

·        * Jumping in a 100m high cable car normally

·        * Having no cellphones at all

First, Running rapidly while in a Panic Attack. What is a panic attack anyway? Panic attack is a certain feeling, wherein, people would get this urge to feel that something wrong or terror would happen. What are the different symptoms of a Panic Attack? According to an article written by Joseph Goldberg (April 26, 2012), here are the possible symptoms of Panic Attacks:

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * "Racing" heart

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Feeling weak, faint, or dizzy

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Sense of terror, or impending doom or death

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Feeling sweaty or having chills

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Chest pains

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Breathing difficulties

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Feeling a loss of control

If you are suffering from the symptoms above, do you think you can even run and defend yourself when such thing happens? Normally, if a person gets stocked to a specific situation, he/she will be shaking and may actually feel some difficulties in moving much, or even to control his/her actions.

So going back to the movie “Frozen”, how do you think can the characters feel such freedom in moving without even feeling any panic, while in the first place, anyone who gets trapped in the same position must actually freeze due to nervousness?

Second is jumping in a 100m high cable car. No matter how normal or crazy a person is, if he/she got trapped in such situation, he/she will never jump in such height. It’s like jumping in a building for a belief that by doing so, you can actually live. According to my self conducted survey, 23 out of 25 would never jump into such height. The remaining 2 said that if they no longer have a choice, then they’d just be killing themselves instead by jumping over it, because living would just make them suffer more. I asked the 23 people who answered that they will never jump into such height, if what would they do to survive if they won’t jump? Some of them say that they’ll just climb off through the cable itself, and some says that they’d wait for help. Some say that it’s better to just stay there and do nothing than to kill yourself or break a leg in a helpless manner by jumping in such height. Regardless if you think it can save you, well obviously, it won’t. Unless you’re a superhero, but you’re not.

Third is having no cellphone at all. In our generation nowadays, cellphones are most likely to be already part of our everyday life. Normal people bring it everywhere they go. That’s why, it is somewhat impossible to think that not even one of them brought their cellphones. If only one of them left his/her phone, that may be quite realistic, but considering that all of them doesn’t bring their phones in case of emergencies? That must be a big joke.

Those are just “some” of the plenty unrealistic parts of movies where people actually don’t notice most of the time. It’s understandable that the writer/director intends that to happen, but still, if you are going to think of it really deep, then you would be ending up with these conclusions. Seems tricky, isn’t it? But tricky enough to fool people without letting them know about it.