After watching this movie I was thinking more about how one would survive something like this? Would it really be possible? It would take a very rare person with a very rare physical and mental constitution I think to make it through something like this, even then.
I think his wounds were just too severe for him to have survived that long with no help other than his own. However, his rage and anger might have kept him alive too. Don't underestimate that either.
So, could someone actually have done what Glass did in this movie. Maybe.
However, very very few people could do this same thing today because of our relatively weakened immune systems from shots, living inside with central heating, air tight houses and buildings, much better clothing and food than was available then likely too. Except the meat they ate was mostly wild and therefore likely a lot more nutritious than what we eat today too.
A few weeks ago I made a mistake and wound up falling through the snow ice on a lake while on skis. As I watched this movie I remembered how I felt in water through the ice in about 20 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind blowing and it cloudy and snowing a little bit. It was all I could do in my late 60s to not go into shock from falling through the ice (and I wasn't alone) there were two other gentlemen on skis at 6000 feet skiing over the snow ice with me. And I made sure that the water under the ice wasn't over my head because with snow on top of the lake if you fell clear through you wouldn't see the surface through the snow. So, just going through that and watching this movie made me wonder about someone younger and more used to living in the cold and how they might deal with similar things while being seriously injured in ways most of us wouldn't survive on a sunny nice day by ourselves let alone in below freezing temperatures.
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