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Ice Bound, DVD, drama
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Ice Bound, DVD, drama, On the frozen continent of Antarctica, where summer is a continual day and winter a continual night, a small community of scientists from a variety of nations works together to solve puzzles that can be tackled nowhere else on Earth. But Dr. Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) didn't come to Antarctica for science, but for medicine: to serve as the resident doctor for the small group of hardy researchers who would "winter over" in Antarctica, and in a more personal sense, to get away from her personal life.
Ice Bound is based on the true story of Dr. Nielsen's stay in Antarctica; its drama comes from the fact that soon after the last plane took off, not to return until eight months later, she discovered that she had breast cancer. The film is the story of her struggle to stay alive, to treat herself and to reach out to other members of the Antarctic team for help.
As far as drama goes, Ice Bound is fairly weak. Susan Sarandon is reasonably believable as Dr. Nielsen, but the script and story is just a bit too flimsy to support any real drama. Rather predictably, her efforts to beat the cancer lead to introspection and a change in the way she approaches life in general; it's not terrible but it's not really compelling either. The story also tends to sag a bit toward the end, and I get the sense that the filmmakers were stretching to fill a full hour and a half; for instance, there's an overly long montage of images set to music that has "padding" written all over it.
The best part of Ice Bound, and what makes it worth watching, is the glimpse it gives us into life in Antarctica. The temperature gets so low (down to 100 below zero in the winter) that many of the things we take for granted even in the winter are nearly impossible, or have to be very carefully arranged. Trash disposal, patching up a cut finger, keeping track of time, even a simple thing like taking a hot shower all become more difficult in the extreme cold of Antarctica, and of course there are new challen
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