Between visiting with family and cleaning up the home, I got the chance to sit down and watch Netflix. Yay, my favorite activity! My daughter picked out a horror movie called “Backcountry.” Backcountry was filmed in the beautiful wilderness of Ontario, CANADA. It is based on a true story. The movie features a young couple who decide to spend a few days in the woods camping and fishing. Everything is going well for the two happy campers until they realize that they are lost without a map and even worse, without a cell phone! (The terror!) This movie gets you pondering about survival situations. What do you do if you are faced with a threat? Do you know how to find water, food and a way out of the wilderness? Although, Hollywood makes surviving a deadly catastrophe look easy, but is it? What happens when you cut yourself and there is no first aid kit. How do you respond to a strange man or strange giant animal? I did a little research on the actual event that inspired the making of the movie, “Backcountry.” The real-life survivor, (I will not tell who because I do not want to spoil the movie ending…) had been camping in that area for year and years and have never enter encounter a situation like the one encounter. The survivor’s one regret was not being prepared on how to deal with a threat. So watch the movie, and if you go camping in Canada, do your homework and brush-up on your survival techniques.
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