In times when
one’s existence in the real world is troubled, one watches a movie like The
Grey. Simplicity itself. Ottway (Liam Neeson) leads six survivors of a plane crash –
a rough and tough oil drilling crew – across the wilderness of Alaska towards
possible safety. One by one, the grey wolves pick on them, decimating their
numbers, apparently unmitigated by little heroic acts of bravery. So does man
trump wolf or vice versa? The Grey simply suggests that it perhaps does not
matter – “Once more into the
fray.
Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die
on this day” – authored by none other than the director of the movie (Joe
Carnahan). Yes, live and die on this day. Based on the novel “Ghost Walker” by
Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, The Grey is a stunning movie, elemental and stark. Like
life at present – stark and elemental, and live and die on this day ergo, the rest of one's life
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