Once again another brilliant film from Danny Boyle that lives up to all of my previous expectations of it. Filled with lush cinematography, a tremendous score from A R Raman(who worked previously with Boyle on Slumdog), wonderfully directed and quite possible a career defining performance from the vastly underrated James Franco.
The attention to detail of the real Aron's experience is quite something. From every flashback to instances of what it going on around him, adds to the uncompromising position that he found him self in. The close up shots of Aron's face, showing the pain that he's going through is not only great to see James Franco's lovely face, but his incredible acting really lets you in to this character's experience. Watch out for the scene in which he cuts his arm off, it's quite something-brilliantly filmed.
Hopefully by the time the 2011 oscar nominations are out, this film is up for several, including Best Actor-which will be well deserved.
Highly recommended!