MICHEL: The thrilling sensation of getting lost in a blizzard, of freezing to death in the woods, and having to eat your friend’s buttocks to stay alive, that is lost on many people.
Michel is no doubt referring to the 1993 drama film Alive directed by Frank Marshall. Based on the 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read, it depicts the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team and their family and friends whose plane went down in the Andes Mountains in October 1972. Trapped for more than two months in below-freezing temperatures, once the rations ran out the survivors had to eat their dead companions in order to stay alive.
The film’s subject was so well known in the 1990s that it was not necessary to have seen it to immediately understand any reference to eating people as relating to the movie. Unlike Michel’s comment, the film actually handled the cannibalism with great sensitivity.
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