Why The Grey is a Forgotten Masterpiece (Film Analysis)
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2020
- In this video essay, I analyze The Grey, directed by Joe Carnahan, and explain how the main message of The Grey is not learning how to kill the fear of death but rather learning how to kill the fear of life. The Grey received mix reviews from critics and viewers for its divisive ending. In truth, the open-ended final scene and the philosophy it promotes makes the movie special.
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One of the most underrated movies ever. The critics and people in general simply didnt understand the several brutally beautiful messages it brings up indirectly.
What's truly disgusting is the fact that the studio released this film in January, a month where films go to die.
It's not a forgotten masterpiece, it's like many things, certain food, certain scenery, certain paintings, certain movies, cars, beers, whisky, anything, some people get it some don't. To those who do it's amazing.
As a Christian I love this movie! especially the angry prayer since. It is sooooooo relatable to me and my faith. Dealing with bullying, depression addiction and self doubt. I won't lie i had those moments when im like "God why... just why!" Yet time and time again despite of being greeted with nothing but the sound of silence, feelings of peace love and joy fill the cracks and crevices of my shattered heart which gives me the couragee face another day another battle. Yes life is pain but as the film teaches us we can ascend from the darkness and find light truth and even wisdom from our struggles.
I’m going to keep fighting my alcoholism. Thank you
I took the cursing god scene, as him accepting that his fate is in his hands, that he has to find meaning himself to keep moving. Faith in something bigger is enough for some. Others need to find their own meaning and values to live by. Existentialism vs essentialism kind of thing. He was living before, as being put on earth to live for his wife, now he has to shift views to a more existential one.
Wonderful analysis. Those of us who understand the depth of this movie feel it's profound meaning and power long after the end titles. I feel privileged to be one of them.
My husband is 73 and has endured real heavy hard tragedies before he came to USA and through his talents and perseverance her managed to have successful life and watches this movie when he is exhausted l think he sees himself always fighting the last because he loves being alive and able to move forward. This movie touches his soul even though it's just a film masterpiece .
Prime Minister Winston Chrchill referred to his depression as his "black dog."
Marketing made the film out to be this action movie about surviving an onslaught of wolves, can't say who's fault that is but it's a shame it shifted people's expectations about the movie.
There's so much pain in Neesons performance in this movie which nobody even talks about which surprises me. He lost his wife a couple of years before this movies release, also in a ski accident so I akways thought this wasn't even acting from him considering the environment and everything else. It feels real!
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen. Definitely my top5. Why don’t they make movies like this anymore? The storyline, the suspense, the drama, the cinematography. Brilliant!!
this movie will never be forgetten by me. I think about it all the time. I watched it when it first came out, and it meant a lot to me. I've shown this movie to all of my past boyfriends. I obsessed over survival surrounded by people worried about their phones. My father died when I was a baby of cancer. One of my first memories is standing next to my mother as she wept into her hands. Death meant a lot to me, and so did the living things I saw. I've been in a severely abusive relationship, I have no blood family I am entirely adopted now, Im greatful for the bits I have. But man am I ready to go. I remember sitting in the snow, drunk too, with a barrel in my mouth. I listened to "The Gray." one of my favorite songs and by far the most meaningful songs I have ever listened to. I listened to it out in negative wind chill. To me its not just about survival int he frigid cold, hunted by wolves, it's about that realization of everything that once made a life a life. The soul within, and that struggles just to stay afloat. Wolves to me, are humanities brothers. This movie will always be my absolute favorite, it will always be carried with me in so many ways. I remember all the men who survived the crash, I remember their stories, and I remember their ends. To me, when I look at another human, I see the Gray.
There is such a profound message in this movie. I found it to be extremely poetic, metaphorical. From the moment we are born, we are thrown into the fray. As we go through life; we are challenged to face our fears, extreme grief. And encountered heartbreaking experiences than will shake us down to our cores. We go through life afraid of death because our fears of the unknown. This can only end once we finally realize that have always had control of how we react to those experiences. Will you continue to struggle and suffer in silence? or will you choose to stand up in fight back with everything you got?
Say what you want about this film, you can feel the desperation when they got picked off one by one, but in the end when Liam excepted the outcome h embraced it, that small moment when he’s looking the Alpha in the eyes and they both lock-on to each other has to be one the best pieces of cinematography ever recorded, and that moment he’s lying on top the Alpha just gives you a bit of hope but a heavy-heart at the same time, this is a criminally-underrated classic
I was battling depression when this came out. I didn’t understand for a long time why I was so wrecked by this movie. Yet, this video summed up the lesson it the story and put words to it that I never could.
This movie deserves so much more love. It has helped me through so many hard times in my life and it drives me insane when people refer to this movie as "the one where Liam Neeson punches Wolves". There's such a deeper meaning and more symbolic inspiration to the movie. I owe this movie so much and I will love it and sings it's praises til the day I die
I'm depressed and this movie just hits. It feels so relatable. I think surviving against the wolves and the wilderness represents the struggle to live like you've said. It's gritty and ever present, but it's living. No matter how bad things are, we are still alive, and I think that's something to be thankful for, and fight for.
Hey man, don't minimize what you do with this video. This commentary hit me hard. You made an impact in my life.
I watched this movie for this first time in a long time. I originally watched when it came out I was 8 lol. But I was shocked by how good and under appreciated it is.