[film] Guardian Film of the Week: Touching the Void …
‘Neither man waxes poetic about getting close to God or the purity of creation. Simpson says that he was brought up a Catholic, but no thought of his maker inspired him to survive; at the end there is just nothing. In fact, at the low point of his weakness and delirium and pain, Simpson hears music going round and round in his brain. Barber’s Adagio? Beethoven’s Ninth? Nope, it’s Boney M’s Brown Girl in the Ring, a brilliant moment in the film – exactly the sort of banal thing you might find yourself humming as you dangle over the precipice of your existence. Macdonald’s movie is thrilling not because of any divine or aesthetic rapture, but because the sheer vastness of the mountain landscape seems to go beyond beauty, exceeding the limits of the thinkable…’
Touching the Void Review
This entry was posted on Friday, December 12th, 2003 at 5:25 pm and is filed under Documentaries, Movies.
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Had dinner with Joe Simpson once – top bloke. He’s had awful falls since the one in Touching The Void and he was getting worried that no one wanted to go climbing with him any more!
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