Uhgod
So Bucky, you are back. Not as who I remember you were.
The Grey review *spoilers
So I know I’m pretty late to this game but i just saw The Grey yesterday and have some thoughts to air about it. When I heard about this movie a few years ago I remembered everyone who talked to me about it going on and on about the ending and acting like there was this massive plot twist to it.
So when I sat down to go through this journey with the man of action Liam Neeson I was keeping an eye out for hidden twists and underlying plots that would be uncovered at the close of this survival story. I spent the first half of the movie going ‘they’re all dead’ 'the wolves are the people from the crash going insane one by one and trying to kill each other’ 'Liam Neeson is the wolves’ etc ad infinitum. But when the end did finally come I thought I had the twist in the bag:
Liam Neeson is dying of a terminal illness and his wife is lying with him as he battles out the last worst part of the illness. The whole movie is a metaphor for him dying/battling death till the last basically. That’s why the film is constantly cutting back to her and him in the bed. Why she says 'don’t be afraid’ to him. Why the wolves seem elemental/ why they don’t eat the people (like real wolves would) they just kill them. The people represented parts of himself slowly dying and becoming at peace.
But upon looking it up to see if my reading was correct I discover that not only was that not the underlying plot but that there was no underlying plot. That his wife died of an illness, he was suicidally depressed after loosing her and that the survival movie was just that - a survival movie (which isn’t great considering the ending didn’t pan out too well for the attempted survivors).
Just wondering if anyone else came to the same conclusion I did or if it was because I was expecting it to be a grande finale that I saw this phantom plot line.
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