![]() ![]() But unlike Free Solo, in The Rescue, the filmic style the pair employs doesn’t convey this expertise. The Rescue is not so much a film as it is a record.Ĭhin, a legendary alpine climber and respected photographer, is himself well aware of the physical and mental difficulties of contending with nature as sport. The result is an extremely thorough documentation of events, and a literal one. With The Rescue, in theaters October 8, Chin and Vasarhelyi try to weave together many hours of previously unseen footage and several talking head interviews with Thai officials, military personnel, and the cave divers themselves. Years later, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaking duo and couple Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin ( Free Solo) have taken a filmic deep dive into the events surrounding and leading up to the expedition. And what became even more compelling than the fact of the rescue was how they were rescued-by a group of highly experienced, middle-aged cave divers, mostly from the U.K., and with the boys and coach purposefully rendered unconscious during their exit from the cave. ![]() Surely, the most logistically-minded pundits and experts thought, they would not be able to survive under such conditions, and for so many days without food or warmth. ![]() When 12 Thai boys and their 25 year-old soccer coach were trapped in the Tham Luang cave after a storm flooded it in June 2018, there was a global tightening of muscles. ![]()
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