Aron Ralston was a mountaineer and outdoorsman. He was very much experienced. However, he did not see the rock falling and pinning his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall while on a hike in Utah. 127 Hours is a movie adaptation of his best-selling book Between a Rock and a Hard Place that describes the hell he went through for five days.
The movie is told in a mostly restricted narration - which means we hardly have the chance to get into the mind of Aron (played by James Franco) while he is trapped in the canyon. This restriction makes his actions more surprising; we don't know what will happen next. That exactly, is the point of the film: Aron didn't know what was going to happen him but he saw it through, he survived and lived to tell the experience.
My sister was complaining about the quality of the video, but I think the not-so-HD quality was done to impress the timeframe when it happened (year 2003, to be exact).
Anyway, I think James Franco did a great job. The musical score was great, courtesy of A.R. Rahman. The direction is, of course, brilliant. You can't expect anything less from Danny Boyle (of Slumdog Millionaire fame).
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