SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch! | La sociedad de la nieve 

The man at the end of the movie, reading the names of the survivors, is actually one of the survivors, "Carlitos Miguel Paez, my son". He is Carlitos.

It's the 3rd most watched non-English language movie in Netflix history & fully deserved its 2 Oscar noms (Best International Feature Film & Best Makeup and Hair-styling)!

Hi there, girls! English is not my first language so I hope it is acceptable. I am writing from Argentina. My province was the last place the team was before the trip, they had to spent the night of october 12th here because of bad weather conditions. That is why they flew on Friday October 13th. Some facts about the story: Nando and Roberto could not leave earlier because all of them were stranded by the winter. The snow and the nights would have killed them. They had to wait for the thaw, no matter what, otherwise they had no chance for survival. Nando was the one who constantly insisted on climbing and crossing the Andes because he could not stand watching his friends dying any more and he also knew that he and Roberto would be physically weaker if they waited longer , but Roberto was not convinced on the idea of leaving the plane. That is why Numa's death was so important, they could not accept any more deaths. Here in my country we remember all the story vividly from 1972. You can see some cameos: the doctor who carries Roberto walking behind him at the hospital among the crowd is the actual Roberto. Roberto finally got his degree as children cardiologist and has saved many children's lives. Nando is the tall man who holds the door for Nando and his family at the airport entrance. The actor is not as tall as Nando. There are some other cameos too , but the most emotional one is the actual Carlitos Paez playing his own father reading the list of survivors. That really happened, Carlitos' father headed many searching parties, and even alone, to the Andes looking for Carlitos, and finally he was given the list to be read on the radio. Carlitos said that it took many takes his part in the movie because he could not speak due to his emotions and remembering his father, who passed away some few years ago. Another fact: the one who did not want to leave the suitcase was also another med student, Gustavo. He himself visited each home to give the families the tokens he collected from his fallen friends. He said it was his mission. Thanks girls for your reactions, I had been waiting for it😊

This should have won best international film

Soy Uruguaya y agradezco que hayan elegido mirar esta película. Es una joya. Narrada con la voz de una víctima. Mostró tremendo respeto.

Being from Chile, I grew up hearing about this story. They are real life Uruguayan heroes!

"You guys have gotta to move. Get out of his area." Unfortunately, they had no choice. The plane was stuck in the snow. Not that they would have the ability or strength to move it. And it was the ONLY refuge from the cold. They needed it for shelter. You saw how those guys barely survived that night on the mountain when they were search for the tail. It was still bitterly cold in the fuselage, but still better than fully exposed, out in the elements. There was also no where they could go that wouldn't still put them at risk of an avalanche. They didn't know where it would be safe. So they had no choice but to stay with the fuselage and live in constant dread of another avalanche. Every noise made them jumpy. They struggled to sleep. They had PTSD from the experience even after they were rescued. One story saying a survivor mistook his sheets back at home as snow burying him and panicked, throwing himself out of bed.

It was actually agreed among all the people who survived the plane crash and then throughout their ordeal that they would not eat Javier Methol's wife Liliana after she died (she died in the avalanche). They put Liliana's body aside, untouched. All of the young men saw Liliana as a surrogate mother, who comforted the depressed and homesick, and nursed them when they were wounded. She always tried to ease the pain in their hearts and minds, even as she struggled with her own and missing her kids. None of them could bear the thought of eating her. They also made an agreement not to eat certain other bodies (including Nando's mother and sister, among others) out of respect to those still alive who were family. Eating a friend was hard enough already. They did not want to do something that would psychologically destroy those who still lived to see close family be eaten and potentially cause tension and negativity within the group. So that is why the group is so moved when Nando tells them they can eat his family in order to live and use them to mount another escape attempt should his fail. There were 13 bodies that were intact at the end of their ordeal. They were starving even more towards the end of their 70 days there, but continued to avoid eating any of the bodies they marked as off-limits. One of the intact bodies was Rafael "el Vasco" Echavarren. He was one of the people hanging from the luggage rack after his legs were ruined in the crash. Rafael badly wanted off the mountain and to be reunited with his father. He died from infection from his wounds (he was the one who died 2nd to last, before Numa). The survivors told Rafael's father of what happened to his son on the mountain along with handing over the notes Rafael wrote for him. After hearing of his son's wishes, Rafael's father decided he wouldn't leave his son on the mountain. Unfortunately, the Chilean government decided all the bodies would just be placed in a mass grave on the mountain. None would be brought down. So Rafael's father asked the priest who went up to the mountain to perform the burial ceremony to clearly mark his son's body bag. The priest did so and, after the authorities left the mountain, Rafael and a group he hired men traveled into the mountains, unburied his son, and carried it down the mountain. He tried to smuggle the body back to Uruguay, but authorities caught him and arrested him. However, there was such an uproar from all over about arresting the father that they let him go. Rafael was buried near his family's home and, 50+ years later, now his father is buried beside him.

The Chilean man who found Nando and Roberto in Chile, Sergio Catalán, has become legend too. He rode for 10 hours to notify the authorities to rescue them. He took the handwritten note by Nando as proof. All the survivors know his name and honor him.

The film is a cinematic masterpiece, not only because of the aesthetics, art, photography, make-up or script, but because they managed to tell the story as real and truthful as possible, to the point that the survivors actively participated in it and say that when they see it they relive in their minds everything that happened. It is wonderful the way in which Bayona manages to show the harshness of what happened with an artistic touch and a strong emotional charge and for the first time not only highlighting the figure of the survivors as heroes but also those who died and did not make it out of the mountain, which is why Numa's voice as narrator is so important. Each of the actors met the real person they were playing and most of them managed to create a bond with them, moving from interpretation to reality and giving the importance it deserves to what each survivor felt, because as they have already said, each one remembers the mountain in a unique way. THANKS FOR REACTING!

This film is like a love letter to all the survivors and victims, the way they did it was so respectful and heartbreakingly real. Even the ones who didn't survive to get rescued, played a role to survival. Great reaction and thank you for reacting it with subs and the og language.

Im from Mexico 🇲🇽, I was so waiting for this channel to react to this movie. It shows how resilient we human beings can be when you want to survive.

From what I understood, numa was chosen as the narrator to not only tell the stories of the survivors but also those who died since they all were important in the story and survival of those who got off the mountain. They all mattered. He was also the last one to die and because of his efforts in nursing and comforting the survivors his death became the wake-up call for nando and Roberto to start walking. Losing everyone was difficult but losing him and the thaw starting was the thing that made them begin the walk off the mountain.

It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and nominated for Best Makeup, which was something you highlighted. This director with the last name: Bayona, made another very good movie 10 years before this one called: The Impossible, with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Tom Holland, also about a real tragedy about the 2004 Indonesian tsunami.

This movie genuinely shook me so deeply that I can't stop recommending it to others with a lot of warning to be in the right mindset for it.

The man on the hammock who makes the speech about faith was Arturo Nogueira.

I have read several books from the survivors of the true story and think this movie does a wonderful job portraying what they went through

The reason why Gustavo refused to leave the suitcase, was because each item belonged to each of the people who did not survive, and he managed to give those items to each person's family.

Amazing reaction, thank you for sharing it. Thank you as well for watching it in Spanish. A few facts: Nando made quite a recovery because even when his head swelled with the impact, it was facing the cold metal of the plane when he was left outside because everybody was thinking he was dead or about to die. The cold served as a very cold ice pack to heal the swelling in his head and make him better. Diego Storm (who died during the avalanche) was another medicine student thought after the first night it was a good idea to bring Nando to a warmer area inside the plane. They really tried to make a fire but the winds were very strong and keep putting it down. Also, they didn't have much to burn and it would burn instantly, so instead they gave up the idea to make a fire and instead putting as many layers of clothing as possible. The idea Nando had to want to eat the bodies came out of anger that the pilots' negligence got them to be stuck in the mountain helpless. Let's not forget he lost his mum, sister and 2 best friends. Nando's anger it's what pushed him to want to get out of there no matter what. They were peeing black because of severe dehydration, the snow took ages to melt and the ice was burning their mouths and gums. Numa, when Marcelo died said: they have been waiting for a moment like that, a moment of peace. Marcelo after finding out the government stopped looking for them got very depressed and kind of lost hope. Some of the survivors say that they think when Marcelo was trapped in the snow during the avalanche he let himself die because he could not fulfill his promise that rescue was coming and all of those people were in that plane because he planned the trip. The guilt and despair kill him, the avalanche was just his way to let go of that burden. Fito was the one who thought of making water, glasses to protect their eyes from the reflexion of the sun in the snow and also chose the bodies that would be eaten along with his cousins Daniel and Eduardo. Fito was called the inventor. The cousins how the call themselves were those who carried the biggest burden of all, to know which friend they were eaten and cut that friend to be eaten. Carlitos, the young person who crashed into the suitcases with his car at the airport, was a spoiled child who came from a wealthy family. He was very spoiled, he even had a nanny, after this trip his perspective of life absolutely changed. In the plane, he was in charge of making sure there were not drafts in the plane or reduce the possibility of drafts using the suitcases and plane seats, he was very good at it. He also was the one who made the sleeping bag that Nando and Roberto used to protect them and sleep during their walk to Chile. They had so so so so many cigarettes because in Chile cigarettes were scarce and Javier Methol, the man who lost his wife in the avalanche, worked in a Tabaco company so thought it was a good business to take a lot of cigarettes and sell them in Chile. In those years if you went to Chile with a few dollars or had some out of the market products you were a millionaire. Chile was going through a horrible economical crisis. Numa did not get injured like that in the real events, someone walked on his leg by accident because of the lack of space in the plane and because he was not eating his body did not have much strength to recover from the bruise. He was the last one who died and his death pushed Nando and Roberto to say fuck it lets do this, let's save ourselves because no one else is going to. The others 14 left in the plane also had a plan b in case Nando and Canessa did not make it which was putting together another team to hike the mountains. The actual survivors loved this version more than the 1993 version, because it doesn't idolise the survivors as the heroes, instead recognises and considers those who died and their memory. In the alive version some families did not give permission to use the real rugby player's names. In this versions all the families were happy and satisfied with the way the story was told and gave permission. Reporters kept digging in a very nasty way how they survived, what did they eat, etc. The survivors were very secretive for respect to their death friends families, also ashamed and worry their families friends and the country would judge them. They had a press conference were they answered to reporters questions ONCE instead that addressing the situation 100000 times to every reporter who asked. They asked the reporters and people for respect of their choices considering the very harsh circumstances they had to face. Pancho Delgado (Numa's best friend in the movie was they one who spoke in this conference) He said that Jesus gave his blood and body to save the world so the survivors took their friends bodies and blood for them to be save. Pancho also asked the reporters to please not spoiled with yellow press and judgement an act that was sacred to them and something that was done for pure survival instinct. The actual survivors made a Kameo in the movie Nando, opened the door to the actor who played him at the airport, Roberto Canessa was one of the Drs in the Hospital when they got rescued, Coche Inciarte reading a newspaper in the bar Numa and his friends were, Daniel Fernandez in the church, Numa's real life nephew passing by Numa's house when he was entering and Carlitos, who read all the survivors names, were is different scenes. The house shown as Numa's house in the movie was actually his real house back in 1972. The reason why Zerbino would not leave without the suitcase it's because he hoped that tokens from the death people, like personal belongings such as jewelry, rosaries, ID's, letters written before dying were taking back to give to their families. That actually happened the real survivor refused to leave without the suitcase and when back home he personally went to each of the families homes of the passengers that did not survive to give them something that belonged to them, so the families even when not having their bodies back they could have something to remember them by. In the movie isn't shown but the rescue was in 2 stages. They had to rescue one lot of people that day and the next lot the day after. Some survivors had to stay another night waiting for the other helicopters to arrive. Those left behind the first day were left with food and a team of rescuers. A survivor said most of the rescuers were scared of them after seeing all the human remaining all over the place and made sure the survivors knew they had a gun. Also the smell and dirt was unbearable. Only one rescuer Sergio Diaz, I believe he is called, stayed in the plane with them that night, ate with them and advised them about what they were going to face after everybody knew they have eaten human beings. There is a man who was part of the search team that were looking for the plane during the rescue missions. His name is Claudio Lucero and he had made quite strong arguments in the media about how he believes the 27 people left alive in the plane after the crash planned and plotted maliciously all the events that happened to them to gain fame. He states they could have left the mountain days before the day they got rescued, but chose to stay longer and go through hunger and lost to become famous and earn money.

I keep seeing the subtitles say the temperature drops 30 degrees just like the narrator speaks. He means celcius. In farenheit, a 30 C drop is about an 86 F drop! So they probably go from a daily of what, 55 F during the day? to some -25 F. I saw this movie in my mind first since I saw Nando's account on a tv interview which lasted for like 30 minutes. I can't believe the movie is exactly as I pictured it, but he even gave more details of his experience. He said during the avalanche he got trapped and was experiencing death. He couldn't feel his body, see anything. He stopped feeling pain and felt how he was going into dying. At the split of a second, he says, he regained consciousness back into his body.

This should've won the Best International Picture Oscar in '23, not "Zone of Interest".

Highly recommend the book! It's a testament to the humanity behind the tragedy.

It's crazy how much this story resonated in South America (or at least in the countries involved, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina). I'm from Argentina and since I was a kid I knew that the Uruguayan crew had crashed somewhere in the Argentine Andes. I remember not even having a concept of death at that time, I did know cold so the thought of constant cold and desolation gave me chills and still does to this day. Great video! This film should have won the Oscar for sure

hello i am uruguayan and i love your channel, more that you covered this movie. yes this is a true story but not the full story since the survivors choosed to keep some stuff out of movies and books. like when they eat first the raw dead bodies meat and give them vomit and diarhea, and when they started to go mad inside the plane buried in the snow for 4 days. they could not move from the plane since in latin america the winter starts around june and ends on september with spring, then spring ends on summer around december and fall comes around march. so when they crashed they where trapped by winter since in the night time the temperature could go over -90 F (or around -70 C since we use Celsius) so they kept on the plane not because they where afraid, but because they would have died of cold. also the aislating fabric they found on the tale was useful to do a sleep bag for the ones that traveled to chile and assisted in the final rescue.

the behind the scene is amazing too. The work they put into making this movie is crazy

they didnt start walking before bc it was still too cold, nando and roberto started to walk when the ice began melting

At that altitude it’s impossible even to light a Fire for the lack of Oxigèn!

This takes place in the southern hemisphere, so seasons are flipped. October is spring, theyre going into summer. Although the region is cold!

Interesting fact... some of the survivors have returned many times to the memorial that was erected in the site of the crash. Some of them just can´t do it because of PTSD. The wreckage of the plane has been moving down the mountain for many years now, and it seats today very far away from it´s original position where it landed.

27:29 - There's no way they would have survived that hike in the beginning they had to wait for the weather to warm up, it's a miracle they survived as it is.

It’s October in South America so it’s only going to get warmer :)

Thanks for the reaction. It's a great movie. The 1993 version is great as well with Ethan Hawke in the lead, never thought there will be another movie until this one just popped up. One of the books (the one by Piers Paul Read) is a good read as well. Always read it with my students in the last year before graduation (age 16). Even teenagers that don't read much are interested in this one. Very thrilling and gripping book.

If this helps Kristen’s anxiety… it seems the accident was caused by the inaccuracy of the instruments of the time (the altitude reading was wrong and so the location) but now that technology is better

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Movies based on true stories are always intense to watch, like this one, The Impossible, and Hotel Mumbai-they’re packed with suspense!” Survival instincts to the Max!!!!

If you get the chance, compare the cast photos to the originals and you can see how amazing the casting was.

The reason they didn't leave earlier was because of the weather. They had to wait until the thaw begann in order to avoid avalanches and also to be able to endure the cold. Loved your reaction and love this movie 🧡🧡

omg yeeeeessssssss i just got done watching this and was hoping for this reaction yeeeessss!!!!!

The film is a masterpiece, but there's so much more to this story. If you are interested in investigating further there are many books which explore it in detail, some written by the survivors, from Peter Paul Read's best-seller "Alive!" to Pablo Vierci's "Society of the snow" which the film is based upon to John Guiver's exhaustive "To play the game". Nando, Roberto, Coche, Eduardo , Carlitos and Pedro Algorta memoirs are must read too.

ty both, glad they gave us their after thoughts

Also nando almost died from his head injury and they thought he was dead already (he was unconscious for like three days) so they put him close to the hole in the fuselage. In normal circumstances or closer to the warmth the others had his brain would’ve swollen and killed him but because his head was kept cold the brain didn’t swell and he lived to walk off the mountain

The craziest thing (among all the crazy things they endured) was that the ones who walked to try and reach the Chilean side had to come back to the plane with the helicopters to show the rescue team exactly where they crashed.

this movie is so tragic yet so beautiful... such a masterpiece

I remember this from the film, ALIVE.

The actor playing Numa is incredible and really hope this is his big break. All the cast are brilliant of course.

Thank you so much for reacting to this and thank you for doing it in spanish. You should watch a monster calls and the impossible. They are other masterpieces by Bayona and I think you are going to love them

My ex husband was Uruguayan, and he used to tell me about this, from his father, who was a young man when this happened. What they had to do, to survive, Arturo, his papa, said, Uruguay understood. Cheers Australia

30:15 It’s not the real footage, but a recreation of it. It is incredibly close to it, though, the only thing that changes is some angles of the fuselage

See? I love these types of films. I mean, everything else is fine but, let's get to the reality of things. How would you handle or deal with these situations. Just like James Franco in 24. Limited supplies to survive. What?!? Would?!? You do????? 😱 Love this!

great movie

Nice reaction!! Greetings from Uruguay

40 years later, the survivors played the rugby game they going to play the day of the crash

Guys, this is a true story so a little disrespectful to be pointing out what you would do or what they should be doing. We have no clue what this would be like to live through thankfully.

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Love this movie so much

There is also an american made movie about this tragedy. Alive from 1993 staring Ethan Hawke

Llorá conmigo

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This movie is awesome and like this reaction 🥰

Please react to the Behind the Scenes!

Saludos desde Montevideo uruguay gracias por ver la película de mis compatriotas y espero se den el tiempo para conocer la vida de los sobrevivientes después de la tragedia hasta el día de hoy y también de otras historias de uruguayos qué estoy seguro que las van a sorprender gracias

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Omg i was looking for this reaction as im a recent subscriber so happy to see this!!!

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Didn’t know I had an armpit fetish. Dope reaction.

Hey! JABY pls react to money heist 3,4,5.

not all make up, the actors were subject to controled diets at the end they each lost between 20 and 30 kilograms, almost as much as the real people lost on the mountains.

Not related to this great film, but where is the reaction for The Penguin? Jaby and Achara, y'all reacted to Agatha and not to The Penguin? which is 100 times better. That pilot episode was incredible; from the performances, storytelling, dialogue, cinematography, score, makeup, etc., the show will definitely get more than 5 nominations for the Emmys next year.

How many time havethey made this movie

Watching Kristen makes my day ;)

Mi a címe?

Girls, please watch Ghostbusters Frozen Empire with a end credit scene 👌.

JA Bayona should've done STAR WARS Not Colin Trevorrow or JJ Abrams

They have the Hollywood version of this story as well, ALIVE is called with Ethan Hawke.

Boring ass movie

Are you women’s both single?

blondie would have died day one if she was in this situation. there were literally so many zero IQ suggestions from her throughout this omg. it made this reaction really hard to watch, especially since she seemed to smugly judge the boys for not being as 'smart' as her and came off as disrespectful.

07:57 ... warmer... south america. 😅

just a remake of the movie in the 90s called "alive", with some of the same actors in it.

7:54 :/ no, that's not how it works in the south....

🏔 I think the ALIVE (1993) is a better, more complete version because it included more memorable characters including women that this movie left out altogether, in favor of the fictitious narration of someone relatively minor to the inspirational survival.

Vivian is looking so hot in this reaction video.❤❤❤Simple look is hot.

07:57 ... warmer... south america. 😅