10 Movies That Forced You To Answer Impossible Questions
6. 127 Hours - Could You Cut Your Own Arm Off To Survive?
The premise seems pretty simple here. You're stuck at the bottom of a canyon in the middle of the desert, no one know where you are or that you've gone, and you're lumped with a bunch of blunt tools best suited to climbing rather than surgery.
Oh, and your arm is stuck quite literally between a rock and a hard place with no chance of ever getting it out singlehandedly.
Do you have the balls to chop your own arm off and go looking for help, or do you wait the whole thing out and potentially die of exposure or dehydration from drinking too much of your own piss? We'd all like to think we're brave enough to cut through our own nervous system, but when push comes to shove there's a big hesitation before driving a pocket knife through your arm.
Aron Ralston might have managed to do it, but could you? Would you have the sheer will to try and survive the ordeal?