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GUARD:
Please step back.

Help us!

Lunchtime.

I think we should wait for everyone.

Why?

- I'm hungry.

- YONNI:
Dario.

This food is for an emergency.

- So, what is this, Yonni? A picnic?

- Take it easy.

I'm going to eat, Yonni. Come on.

- Dario... Use your head.

- I want you to move.

- Dario! Hey!

- Move!

Come on!

Look at this crap.

Works for me.

You knew, didn't you?

You knew they never finished the ladders.

You knew this place was a deathtrap

but you let us come down anyway, Lucho.

Listen.

I asked Castillo about the ladders.

I asked him again and again.

He had the certification!

YONNI:
Don Lucho!

What is going on there?

Don Lucho!

(MINERS CLAMORING)

MAN:
Give it back!

Don Lucho! Look at this!

Give me the key.

Give me the key!

You took the food!

What are you doing, Dario?

- Having lunch.

- Oh, having lunch?

You're having lunch?

- This is my food.

- Relax! Stop it!

Back off!

Stop it! Stop it!

Calm down!

It's just some cookies.

What's the big deal?

"What's the big deal?"

Let me tell you.

- There is no ladders to climb.

- Yeah.

ALEX:
And the chimneys just caved in.

MAN:
What?

And there is a huge rock

blocking our only way out of here.

Guys.

We are buried alive.

That is the big deal.

This is all the food we have left

to keep us alive.

We have to ration it carefully!

If we plan on surviving down here

until we are rescued!

Rescued?

Do you hear any drills?

That's because

they're not drilling for us.

We're too far down.

It took 100 years for them

to dig this deep.

How long do you think

that's going to take?

Do you think the owners are going to

spend that kind of money?

They didn't even finish the ladders!

They'll wait three days,

then close the mine

and put up the gravestones.

MARIO:
No.

No, no, no, no!

I don't believe that!

They'll dig us out!

And if they don't, our families will!

With their bare hands, if it's necessary!

I believe we'll make it out of here

because I choose to believe it!

All 33 of us.

You, Lucho, you believe whatever you want.

It's your problem.

Yep.

Yeah. That's the way.

That rescue better get here pretty quick.

Yep. Give me.

There's 18 cans of tuna.

165 grams a can.

Thirty-three men,

that's 90 grams a man.

That's half a can.

A little more for the rest of your lives.

Anybody else?

Thank you. Come on.

Hey-

Thank you.

- Mario.

- Give me.

GOLBORNE:
Early today,

the mining company's rescue team

made an attempt to enter the mine.

Through the ventilation chimneys.

But, a secondary collapse

blocked off any possible access to it.

The mining company has now

relinquished control.

Are you watching this?

The Chilean government is

taking over this operation.

SOUGARRET:
Of course.

I need you up there, Sougarret.

As soon as possible.

Golborne is going to need help.

Everyone I speak to says

you're the best in the business.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I appreciate that.

And you appreciate

that we can't afford to fall on our asses

in front of the whole country.

Which one of you is Laurence Golborne?

Can I help you?

Sougarret. Andre Sougarret.

I'm your new chief engineer.

Says who?

The President.

Now, assuming they're alive,

we got 33 men down there.

They are running out of food and water.

But there is adequate air.

We know that they can survive

for a period of time if

they are relatively healthy,

but we don't know that.

Some of them could be injured.

Some of them are in the early

or later stages of silicosis.

Miner's lung disease.

What I do know, is that

if we don't get them up fast,

we're going to be bringing up 33 corpses.

Here's what we know.

The men were working

in the lower half of the mine

when it collapsed.

That puts them here, at the refuge.

A 5 meter-wide space

200 stories down.

My readings indicate

that a massive rock displaced itself here.

We're talking about

700,000 tons of diorite.

Or twice the mass

of the Empire State Building.

Obviously,

we can't go in through the front door,

so to speak.

So we're going to have to drill.

Best case scenario,

we reach them in eight days.

Eight days?

They're too far down, too deep.

Eight days?

But that's not the biggest problem.

It's the deviation factor.

Look. Here's the refuge.

If you run these drills 24 hours a day

at full speed,

the drill is going to deviate, like this.

Or like this.

In fact, it can bend 20 different ways.

And even if everything goes

according to plan,

the odds are still going to be against us.

What exactly are you saying?

What I'm saying, Minister,

is that there's a less than

1% chance of finding them.

I need every drill that you

can get your hands on.

And I want them here as soon as possible.

- Mario.

- Yeah.

This one has less.

- Which one?

- This one.

- Is everybody happy?

- MINERS:
Yeah.

All right, ladies.

Next meal in 24 hours.

How are we supposed to survive on this?

If we get hungry,

we can always eat the Bolivian.

(MINERS CHUCKLING)

I heard Bolivians taste like chicken.

WOMAN:
Look! Look!

- MAN:
They're bringing drills!

- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

WOMAN:
The drills are here!

MARIA:
We did it.

(INDISTINCT)

(WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

ELVIS:
Okay.

Twist it. Twist all those wires together.

There will be light.

You cannot live without light.

MARIO:
Tell me, Alex...

Why do you think having a boy

is so much better than having a girl?

Yonni, what is it about a guy like you?

Face like a horse's ass,

nappy hair, bad breath,

you fart in your sleep.

How come the ladies love you so much?

There's 33 guys down here

and I'm the only one

who has a little something going on,

on the side?

No, not in the house

across the street, man!

At least close the curtains!

(ALL LAUGHING)

She doesn't have curtains!

(ALL CHEERING)

Elvis is in the building.

Shh!

(SHUSHING)

LOBOS:
You hear that?

(FAINT HUMMING)

It's a drill.

YON N I:
They're looking for us.

Is that not the sweetest sound

you've ever heard?

SOUGARRET:
The job is so much more

complicated than I thought.

I really want to be there

for Ivy's birthday.

Tell the girls I miss them so much.

HURTADO:
Stop, stop!

Look, I've got to call you back.

What happened?

Sougarret! What happened?

You see this diorite?

Twice as hard as granite.

This is the problem.

We're going to need new drills.

Okay, I can get you more drills, but

- we're running out of time.

- I know.

Why are you burning

through them so quickly?

Listen, I don't have six months

to explain to you

the complex geology

of the Atacama Desert...

- That's not what I asked...

- You want to be a miner?

Get a book, read the basics.

Start with orogenesis.

I got 33 men down there

I've got to worry about.

You do what you need to do.

Be a suit, go talk to the media.

Let me do my job.

Why is it taking so much time?

I know you're all growing restless.

I know you want answers.

But I'm here to assure you

that we are doing everything

we possibly can

to make contact with your loved ones.

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