After great critical and public success in the United States, the Yellowjackets series continues with a second season. When he flies over Canada, the car crashes in the middle of the forest. Survivors will be left on their own for 19 months.
Throughout its story, the program alternates between the past and the present. The series tells about the unfortunate adventures of abandoned heroines in the nineties and the consequences of this case, today, 2021. Between drama, survival thriller, and cannibal horror, Yellowjackets is a truly addictive television entity.
Not surprisingly, the story is artistic and inspired especially by the classics His Majesty the FliesWritten by William Golding and published in 1954. However, authentic news is the origin of this idea of a plane crash.
It is a tragedy worthy of a horror movie. On October 12, 1972, a plane took the Uruguayan rugby team and their loved ones to Santiago, Chile. The weather is terrible and the crew lands in Mendoza, Argentina at night. The next day the ship took off again, but the right wing hit a mountain. In the Andes region, passengers have an accident.
Two months pass between the accident and the arrival of help. The color of the plane does not make it easy to locate. Out of 45 people – including crew and passengers – 16 survived. In addition to the extreme climate, the victim must endure starvation. They try to eat strips of leather from the trunk, but it is not edible.
Faced with a lack of food, they decide to eat the corpse of the pilot who died in the crash, Julio Cesar Feradas. Roberto Canesa, a medical student, explains to the others how to proceed with cutting up the corpses. Then they eat other bodies.
The government rescued the survivors on December 22 and 23. After being rescued, accident victims refuse to admit their actions. However, the truth was revealed at the press conference. Faced with a special situation, this survival cannibalism is forgivable. Pope Paul VI releases the survivors.
Twenty years later, a movie adapted from this story was released in theaters. It is intuited alive – The Survivors in the French version – and stars Ethan Hawke, John Malkovich and Josh Hamilton. Director Jay Bayona (The Impossible, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) is currently producing Snow Society, a new feature film on the subject slated for Netflix.
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