I own both the book and the movie which I have read and watched numerous times. For those individuals who feel it is boring or tedious, I feel I need to remind them that often in real-life situations - there is not the intense action and drama. Keeping warm and melting water took a great deal of their time and energy. As for those who feel it is too religious - you are missing one true aspect of the experience. Flores had a great devotion of God and felt compelled to share it with Klaben. I was very pleased with the directors of the film - that they did not take poetic license and feel they had to add a lot of fictional incidents or enhance beyond the true nature of the experience. Klaben did spend most of her time reading as mobility was difficult. Flores did spend a lot of time gathering wood. One gets the idea of the number of days by the calendar clearly illustrated in the book and the movie. I, for one, appreciated the straight-forward approach of capturing the 49-day experience without a lot of Hollywood hype.
Review of Hey, I'm Alive
