I Am Alive is an incredible story of survival, but it’s not for the faint of heart. Traces of Tragedy: Artifacts from the Andes Plane Crashīehind-the-Scenes of I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane CrashĮxtended Inteviews wit Roberto & Laura Canessa, Graciela Parrado, Jose Luis Nicola, and Brother Eamon O’Donnell Mostly these just highlight what was already said and shown in the feature, so they don’t add too terribly much to the overall experience. There are quite a few extra features here, the most interesting for me being the Return to the Valley of Tears. There were no problems with either the audio or the video. The DVD is presented in fullscreen with the audio in Dolby Digital stereo. It shows just how deep the human desire to live runs in all of us, and the preciousness of life. I Am Alive is a moving, sober look at an incredible moment of human will. Together these elements combine to make a powerful tale of survival one that puts you there with the people as they consider the unthinkable. The special is told from the point of view of survivor Nando Parrado and it features new, high-resolution photos shot by the survivors, footage from the crash site, and dramatic recreations of key moments. It’s a story of survival and a justification for surviving. But you never really know what you’ll do in an extreme situation like that until you’re in it, and that’s one of the main points of I Am Alive. It’s easy to say that you’d never resort to anthropophagy. It’s easy to armchair quarterback from the comfort of your living room. It may seem like splitting hairs, but ask any of the survivors and they’ll tell you that they’d much prefer to be called anthropophage rather than cannibal. What the survivors did is more accurately called “anthropophagy” which is the eating of human flesh without the religious and spiritual significance.
Cannibalism is a cultural practice where certain religious and spiritual significance is placed on the eating of human flesh. However, to label the survivors as cannibals is a misnomer. Cannibalism is the ultimate taboo, greater even than incest, and anyone that engages in the practice becomes the object of much fascination and disgust. If not for that, we probably wouldn’t remember the survivors. Over the course of 72 days the survivors did whatever they could to survive, even resorting to cannibalism. In 1972 a plane carrying 45 rugby players crashed in the Andes mountains.
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