I didn't finish Between a Rock and a Hard Place. I'm almost done; I did watch the movie though. Many of the events were the same. The movie was very silent because it was mainly him stuck in the crevice, thinking about freedom, and events that happened in his life. He was told multiple times in the movie that he would die alone, that stament hit him hard after Aron realized he couldn't get out. He thought back to his previous girlfriend and how she left him at a basketball game and told him he would be alone for the rest of his life.
Around day three he started losing his mind, he had a video camera and was pretending he was on a talk show, there were multiple callers (all named Aron) they would comment on Aron's situation, and there was a crowd in the background cheering and laughing at his pain. I think that he stayed really strong throughout the five days. He had a few incidents where he was pretty much insane, the talk show and he was half asleep at one point and he dreamt about getting free. A storm was passing through and it flash flooded the crevice and he got his arm free and swam to the surface. He was only dreaming and when he awoke he basically cried.
Day four was interesting; Aron finally decided he had no other options but to cut off his arm. He fashioned a tourniquet just below his elbow. He then realized that his blade just wasn’t going to cut through the bone in his arm. He managed to break his arm before cutting it. After he broke the arm I could barely watch, he stabbed into his arm and cut.
He got out of the crack and found water, it was really dirty, and he drank a lot of it. He managed to walk a long ways and there was a family walking and he yelled out and they saved him. They called someone and a helicopter came and he was saved. In the book it talks about his recovery, he got a lot of infection from the water and the wound, but he lived through all of it.
Three years after the accident Aron found his soul mate and married her they then had a son. So he wasn’t going to die alone after all. I enjoyed the movie and the book, and I will finish it.
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