The Grey (when wolves kill people in the wilderness)

[Neithan]

Have you seen this (2012) movie? I just checked it out on Netflix. It felt like the director was aggressively attacking your faith.

 

[SuperLuigi]

If you wish to elaborate, that’s fine by me regarding spoilers.

But that’s not a movie I would watch.

As an environmental scientist, I know that wolf attacks in North America are very rare and most of them happen in unusual or dubious circumstances.

I also know how the movie ends, and it kind of fits the modern trend of a negative force winning.

 

[Burt_Macklin]

I thought the movie a bit pretentious and heavy handed with its philosophy but not awful or anti-faith. We all have a wolf coming for us and all we can do is face it with courage and dignity. Like the poem in the movie “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.”

 

[Neal76]

Fantastic film. As someone that lives, works and hunts in the north, I can confirm that it’s totally unrealistic, but that’s not the point.

 

[SWolf]

If you wish to elaborate, that’s fine by me regarding spoilers.

But that’s not a movie I would watch.

As an environmental scientist, I know that wolf attacks in North America are very rare and most of them happen in unusual or dubious circumstances.

I also know how the movie ends, and it kind of fits the modern trend of a negative force winning.

It was a very existential film. The wolves were more of a metaphor of an unrelenting force that could not be escaped. I won’t spoil the ending, but it wasn’t about a negative force winning, but an affirmation of life, whatever the circumstances.

Oh yes ,it was pretentious, but still one of my favorite films.

 

[Digitonomy]

Have you seen this (2012) movie? I just checked it out on Netflix. It felt like the director was aggressively attacking your faith.

I did not find that to be the case, and I don’t recall what in the film might make you think that. I imagine there were some people who prayed but were soon killed by wolves? I don’t remember any particular group or category being favored as far as being spared or being killed through the course of the movie.

While the bigger plot involved the other passengers, the core story was the protagonist realizing his life did have meaning, implicitly showing his early thoughts of suicide were wrong.

I thought it was a great movie.

 

[Tarpeian_Rock]

If anyone would like a truly great read that presents facts about wolves - seen through the lens of a most unusual wolf - I recommend “A Wolf Called Romeo” by Nick Jans. I’ve come to learn that wolves are very different from the media portrayals.

 

[Robyn_p]

Yeah I wasn’t too impressed with it myself. Mostly because it acted like it was trying to be ‘‘gritty’’ and ‘‘real’’ but the wolves themselves were so cartoonishly monstrous and powerful I couldn’t take it seriously.

The God bashing was a little annoying, but at the same time, none of those people were supposed to be pious believers if I recall, so it made sense they would talk like that in their situation.