Hi, it's me. Please leave a message. Beep!

MOVIE REVIEW: 127 HOURS

Breakaway. Climb your mountain. And don't leave a message.

This is for sons and daughters who think they can be heroes all by themselves. Aron Ralson (James Franco), did think he'd be one by leaving everyone clueless about his escapades. The adventure lifts him to heaven, a large rock spoils it all, and the will to survive takes its toll.

Somehow, the classic jologs won't understand the real reason why people leave home. I've been taught by Ms. Josephine Bonsol it's the itch to chase an adventure and to discover new things making people run away from their comfort zone.

Aron, for once, was a mountain climber living the free life, with the answering machine spelling the boundary between him and his family. It kept beeping, he wouldn't care. He packed his climbing paraphernalia and he was free.

But somehow not leaving a message doesn't mean you're literally free. It has been proven you would be trapped and imprisoned all the more, and the slim chances of seeking for help when danger comes in would be a lot more threatening in real life. And that would be hardly the case; the clock would start to witness if you have what it takes to survive.

The movie portrays the consequences when one left his answering machine beeping. For 127 hours Aron desperately tried to get a grip and apply what he learned from Mountain Climbing 101. He tried to keep his sanity by recording his survival story in his video cam. He painfully endured conserving water by drinking in tiny amounts and even slurped his pee.

It was creative of the movie how it portrayed Aron's hallucinations prior to his death, especially when he was very thirsty, and the camera would swiftly pan from his dull eyes to the Gatorade in his car miles away. It would also show moments with his friends swimming and drinking ice cold beer and then he would simply stare in awe, completely pathetic and hopeless. The way he drank the water and his pee, passing through the jar's straw made me feel how terrible it must be to be dead thirsty.

It may be a true story of survival, but it taught us more to use our answering machines and leave a message.