The dialogue the film used was compelling: “Saliva becomes thick. It feels like lumps are forming in your throat. The tongue swells so much that it squeezes past the jaws. The throat, so swollen, that breathing becomes difficult, creating a terrifying sense of drowning. The eyelids cracked, the eyeballs began to cry tears of blood… the skin like purplish gray leather… his lips disappeared as if they were amputated.” One could only imagine what he looked like. And the fact that he was in the desert accelerated his dehydration. It seems like that scene was used to illustrate to the audience how easily this could happen