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I have an idea to build two

hammocks for Federico and Alberto.

It would be better for their legs.

You gonna help me, Zerbino?

- Sure.

- I'll help too.

I saw some poles and straps.

I'm sure we can do it.

It's been five days.

This is the fifth day.

I'm hungry.

- Lift it up.

- OK.

Just like new.

OK, we need two more belts.

- Look! It's a radio!

- I wish it were a transmitter.

- Does it work?

- I hear static.

Give it to Antonio right away

before he starts yelling.

- Will we get this done before dark?

- Sure.

I can hear something.

We'll have to make an aerial.

Where are the planes?

Where are the planes?!

- How is she?

- I don't know. She's asleep.

And how are you, Nando?

Me? Fine. Don't worry.

No helicopters yet.

- She's dying.

- You can't know that.

And when she's dead, I'm gonna climb

out of these goddamned mountains,

back to my father,

back to my room in my house.

- How? You'll freeze.

- Not if I wear enough clothes.

You'd starve to death.

You can't climb a mountain on a piece

of chocolate and a sip of wine.

Then I'll cut some meat

off the pilots.

After all,

they got us into this mess.

- How you doing?

- OK. You?

I'm better.

At least I'm off the floor.

- Right.

- How's your leg?

I don't know.

Mine are bad.

It'll be OK.

Have you looked at Alberto's legs?

Yeah.

Alberto's legs are much worse

than mine.

Alberto and you both have problems.

Let me tell you something, Roberto.

My name is Federico Aranda

and I will return.

Alberto's in much worse shape than

me. We've got to keep an eye on him.

Shut up! Shut up!

Don't talk that way!

All I said was...

- Don't say it again.

- What's happening?

Antonio heard on the radio

that no planes have seen us. Yet.

- It looks bad.

- Shut up!

- We have to climb, find the taiI.

- The batteries are in the taiI.

We can work the transmitter,

call for help.

We've got to do something. We're

going to starve. Tomorrow, we climb.

- How much further is it?

- Come on!

- Come on!

- I can't! I'm dying for a breath.

Come on. Let's take one more push.

Let's do it! That's it.

Grab my feet. Hold on to them!

- Got you!

- Hold on!

Pull me up! Pull me up!

That was terrible.

I could use some oxygen.

Yeah. Me, too.

We're gonna have to go back.

This is harder than I thought.

I'm so weak.

- Know what Nando said?

- What?

He said if he gets too weak,

he'll eat one of the pilots.

You know, for crashing the plane.

We better get back.

When the sun drops, we'll freeze.

Pilot said we'd just passed it.

There, well into Chile.

Where did you find the map?

- I found it.

- He's made a science of it.

This valley opens only to the east.

It leads deeper into the mountains.

The way out of the mountains

is to the west. To the west is Chile.

Over here

are the green valleys of Chile.

- Forget that.

- Alberto has a map.

It'll take more than a map

to get out.

A little hill kicked our asses.

Who'll climb a mountain, Superman?

At this altitude with no food,

we're weak as kittens.

I'll tell you right now.

Either we're saved or we're dead.

The time has come. No more bullshit.

We've got to pray, man.

Let's say the rosary.

I'm not saying the rosary, Carlitos.

I'm an agnostic.

Don't say it, then.

See if God saves you.

Anybody else want to roll the dice

that way, fine!

HaiI Mary, full of grace,

the Lord is with Thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women

and blessed is the fruit

of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God,

pray for us sinners, now

and at the hour of our death. Amen.

I'm not God, you know?

I can't save you.

I can't be responsible.

I tried because I'm captain,

but who could do this?

Who has the strength?

Don't be a fool.

That's right, you're not God.

Don't take so much on

and you won't feel so bad.

Everybody knows you've done plenty

to keep us together.

I can't help it.

I think of my mother.

I think about my children.

It's the same for me.

- And you'll see them again.

- I know I will. I know I will.

Susana's dead.

My sister's dead.

I'm sorry, Nando.

I'll keep her by me tonight,

and tomorrow I'll take her out.

She won't need her coat.

I can't believe it, Roy.

I can't believe it.

They've called off the search.

They've given up.

They think we're dead.

I'll kill you! I'll kill you!

You promised me!

What's going on?

I heard on the radio.

They called off the search.

Get up. Better go tell the others.

I can't.

It'll kill everybody's hope.

What's so great about hope?

Daniel! Get everybody together.

All right, all right.

Is everybody here?

Yeah, we're all here.

OK. Listen,

I got something to tell you.

Good news,

they called off the search.

How is that good news?

Cos it means we're going

to get out of here on our own.

We're gonna save ourselves.

Chile's to the west, right?

- That's right.

- He's crazy!

It won't work. When we climbed,

we had no strength.

- It's true.

- That's cos you had no food.

If the search is off,

we're alone and we've got to eat!

Eat what?

- The dead?

- No.

He means we should eat the dead.

That's right.

We should eat the dead.

It's what we've got to face.

- Nando's right.

- I can't believe this!

You too, Roberto?

You're talking about eating people!

I'm talking about eating meat

so we don't die.

- I couldn't do it.

- It's disgusting.

It's disgusting, so what?

If my wound needed washing, you'd

do it even if it was disgusting.

But I wouldn't eat you.

- Shut up!

- Sorry.

Do you believe we have a soul

that leaves our body?

- I don't know. I'm not a priest!

- OK.

- I don't want to talk about it.

- We have to. We're starving.

If the soul leaves,

the body is a carcass.

This is the beginning of the end.

What's out there in the snow

is just meat, Antonio. Food.

I won't do it. I'd rather die.

I fear God's judgement if I do that.

He put us here.

Maybe he did, to see what we'd do,

to see if we'd remain civilised.

- God doesn't care...

- How the hell do you know?

Let Tintin speak.

He never says anything.

I always thought God wants us

to reason, struggle to live.

- At any price?

- No.

We shouldn't murder innocents

to live.

What will happen to our innocence

if we survive as cannibals?

- I'm sorry, but I can't do it.

- I'm with you.

I don't think I could. How could

we go back to our families?

You could go back alive.

I think they'd prefer that.

Are you ready to go out and cut flesh

from a human body and eat it?

None of us can decide

a thing like this.

- We're alone here.

- We could be on the moon.

There must've been situations

like this before, the first people.

I don't know. There's nothing

left for us to do but pray.

So?

They're going to pray.

They'll decide in the morning.

What have we done that God now asks

us to eat our dead friends' bodies?

What would they have thought?

I don't know.

- I can't sleep.

- Don't waste the battery.

I know that if I died,

if my dead body could help you

stay alive, I'd want you to use it.

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