JUNGLE - YOSSI GHINSBERG

After I watched the movie Jungle with Daniel Radcliff, I wanted to know if it was true.
How much of this is really true?
Screenwriters have a tendency to embellish even the truest stories, adding obstacles for the protagonist overcome or inserting romantic subplots where none have ever existed.
When I first watched Jungle, my inital thought was " well, they must be exagerating some of this, it can't be true, nobody could live through all that!"
That's why I read the book.
And I realised that, in fact, not only did Justin Monjo, not exagerate, but actually he omitted many more extreme and harrowing moments for the very reason that, were you to put them in the movie, the audience would never believe they had really happened.
What makes Yossi's story all the more remarkable is that he was not a survivalist . He had no experience in or training for the situations, he survived on instincts, courage and mental strength.
He truly believes in the will to survive.
He believes that in the right circumstances, with the right frame of mind, we can all have the reserves of survival instinct.
It took 27 years to bring the story to the cinema.
Yossi joined the Uchupiamonas, a remote tribe deep in the Madadi National Park.
Together against all odds, they've built Chalalan, an eco-lodge that has inspired indigenous people across the Amazon to become proactive about defending their ancestral lands.
Today he's the Tribe's ambassador to the World.
The movie's goal is to draw attention to this awesome vulnerable part of the world.
Its survival depends on all of us and our survival depends on it.