The Mountain Between Us ฝ่าหุบเขา เย้ยมรณะ (2017) ⭐️ 6.4/10

The Mountain Between Us ฝ่าหุบเขา เย้ยมรณะ (2017)
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 October 2017 (USA)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226597/

Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Writers: Chris Weitz (screenplay by), J. Mills Goodloe (screenplay by)
Stars: Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Beau Bridges

เมื่อต้องมาตกอยู่ในสถานการณ์อันยากลำบากหลังอุบัติเหตุเครื่องบินชนที่ไม่คาดฝัน ทำให้คนแปลกหน้า 2 คนต้องมาร่วมมือกันพยายามทำทุกวิถีทางในการติดต่อ เพื่อให้สามารถเอาชีวิตรอดไปได้ จากปัจจัยต่าง ๆ บนถูเขาที่ถูกปกคลุมไปด้วยหิมะ แต่เมื่อพวกเขาเข้าใจแล้วว่าความช่วยเหลือมันอาจจะมาไม่ถึง พวกเขาจึงตัดสินใจเริ่มออกเดินทางข้ามผ่านพื้นที่อันแสนรกร้างว่างเปล่าที่มีระยะทางกว่าร้อยไมล์ซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยภัยอันตราย พวกเขาต้องพยายามผลักดันอีกฝ่ายเพื่อความอยู่รอด และพวกเขาก็ได้ค้นพบความแข็งแกร่งที่พวกเขาไม่เคยรู้มาก่อนเลยว่ามันจะเป็นไปได้!!!

After their flight is canceled due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Bass (Idris Elba) and photojournalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) hire private pilot Walter (Beau Bridges) to get them to Denver for connecting flights to Alex’s wedding in New York and Ben’s emergency surgery appointment in Baltimore. Walter, who has not filed a flight plan, suffers a fatal stroke mid-flight, and the plane crashes on a mountaintop in the High Uintas Wilderness. Ben, Alex, and Walter’s dog survive the crash but Alex has injured her leg quite badly. Ben straps her knee up, and buries the pilot while she is unconscious.

Once conscious, Alex thinks Ben has a better chance of finding help if he leaves her behind, but Ben refuses. Stranded for days with dwindling supplies, Alex grows skeptical that they will be rescued, although Ben wants to wait for help by the plane’s wreckage. Ben agrees to climb a ridge to see if there is any sign of a road. He sees nothing but mountains and barely survives falling down the side.

Alex goes through Ben’s things and listens to a message from his wife saying, ‘I’m glad to have had this time with you’. Alex is found by a cougar who attacks the dog. She sets off a flare and scares the big cat away; it dies. The dog returns. Later, Ben comes back and tends to the dog’s wounds. They are able to cook and eat the cougar giving them, Ben thinks, ten days of food.

The two argue over waiting for rescue or descending the mountain to find a phone signal. Alex starts a lone descent down the mountain. Ben catches up, having located the tail end of the plane he finds a beacon – but it is smashed. The two hike down to the tree-line and spend the night in a cave.

Using her telephoto lens, Alex thinks she sees a cabin. Alex falls into freezing water near an abandoned cabin. Alex remains unconscious and severely dehydrated. Ben saves her life by fashioning an IV. They stay there for several days while Alex recuperates, and eventually they have sex. Ben reveals that his wife died two years prior from a brain tumor. As Ben sleeps, Alex takes his picture. Later, she again asks Ben to leave her behind to find help. Ben initially agrees but soon returns; they press forward again.

The dog alerts them to a nearby timber yard. On their way toward it, Ben’s leg gets caught in a bear trap. Alex cannot free him, but she reaches the yard and collapses in front of an approaching truck. Ben awakens in a hospital and goes to Alex’s room, where he finds her with Mark (Dermot Mulroney), her fiancé. After a brief discussion, Ben leaves heartbroken. Some time after, Mark discovers Alex is no longer in love with him.

Ben and Alex go their separate ways after the hospital, with Ben keeping the dog. Alex tries calling Ben, but he ignores her calls until she sends him pictures of them on the mountain, writing that only he can understand them. This encourages Ben to call Alex. They meet at a restaurant, where it is revealed that Alex is now a part-time teacher, and Ben is a consultant at trauma clinics because his frostbitten hands will not recover sufficiently for him to perform surgery again. Ben says he did not call Alex because he thought she would be married; Alex says she could not go through with it because she fell in love with Ben. After leaving the restaurant, Ben admits to Alex that they survived because they fell in love. Alex dismisses her feelings and reminds Ben of something he said on the mountain: “the heart is just a muscle.” She tells him she doesn’t know how they could be together in the real world. They hug goodbye, and begin to depart in opposite directions. While walking away both characters become distraught, and finally turn and begin running back to each other. A split second before the two embrace, the screen cuts to black and the credits roll.