Touching the Void
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson (II), Nicholas Aaron, Ollie Ryall, Simon Yates Director: Kevin Macdonald Brand: Sony DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 106 minutes Published: 2004-06-01 DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Touching the Void
Movie Review: Simpson's Void
Summary: 3 Stars
"Touching the Void" is indeed a remarkable story of survival. Joe Simpson's ordeal is vividly recaptured by director Kevin McDonald. McDonald's rather straightforward style, with the real Joe Simpson and Simon Yates recounting their harrowing experience climbing, and then descending, the beautiful but brutal, Suila Grande, in the Peruvian Andes, works well here. If there is hole in this story, and I think there is, it's in Simpson himself. He's one cold fish, so it's hard to work up a real measure of empathy. You half expect him to quote Nietzsche at some point. No doubt he would tell you this bleak attitude toward life and death is what kept him going. Maybe, but you get the sense that this heroic effort is being told by a mechanical man - and he was that way before Simpson cut the rope. The only time I really felt for Simpson, was when he fell into delirium, and was plagued with memories of a bad song. It's only then that his control slips, and seems human at last.