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In contrast to The Martian, this is not a film about the triumph of the human spirit, this is a film about high handedness and tragedy. When Kormakur drops the hammer, it falls hard. The Martian is about human ingenuity; Everest is about the frailty of human beings in contrast to the impersonal brutality of nature. We think we've conquered nature: we haven't.