The grey...
From the beginning to the end of the story, there is such a clear despair, there is no redemption here, there is no victory here.
Here, live and die on this day.
This is the working base of an oil company's Alaska drilling rig.
John Ottway, played by Neeson, is a hunter, the protagonist, responsible for the security of the oil field.
He hunted wolves, not people.
Neeson is here as a bystander, watching the world with a cold eye.
Grey narration, grey snow, grey Nissen.
They were all "fugitives, tramps and bastards," Neeson said.
Neeson said they were just like him.
Coming to this extremely cold place to fight, either for money or exile.
Nissen belongs to the latter.
His wife, everything in life, is gone.
Not just leaving him, but leaving the world.
When there are only good memories left in the future and the collision of the cruel world, then collapse is the only ending.
Nissen, who had been shot to death, knelt down in the snow of Alaska, on the eve of his departure.
He gave up, for reasons unknown.
Perhaps, because of something that is about to happen somewhere.
The next morning.
'Fugitives, tramps and bastards' board a plane back to company, on a death tour.
Oh, and Neeson.
Then came the crash, which was extremely tragic.
Survivors, seven people.
Nissen, Hendrick, Diaz, Talget, Flannery, Burke, Hernandez.
Behind them except for the debris of the plane that was broken into several sections and the broken bodies all over the floor.
And a pack of wolves.
Predators in the ice and snow of Alaska.
No rescue, no weapons, just torches and a heart to live.
Hernandez, flannery died with fangs.
Hendrick slept in the cold winter.
Talget was buried in the lake.
Burke fell into the cliff.
Biaz, self-abandonment.
Horror, bloody, cruel, real.
Even the screen was filled with desperate bright red.
Neeson will eventually face the wolves alone.
There are no sudden magical soldiers, no lonely heroes sweeping the snow.
Only desperate people who would rather listen to the truest fate are dying.
werewolf.
In this story, the wolves have a similar unity.
In the very beginning, Neeson shoots a lone wolf and then comes to its side.
Caressing its body, feeling its breath.
Until the lone wolf died slowly.
After the crash, Nissen rescues a badly injured colleague who is sure to die.
Neeson was by his side, covering his wound, and said quietly:
You're going to die, that's what's going to happen.
If the lone wolf could understand human language, perhaps Nissen would also say:
You will die, that's what's going to happen.
Man and wolf, lone man and lone wolf.
At the end of the story, Neeson, who broke into the wolf's den, will be one-on-one with the head wolf.
It is here that the film comes to an abrupt end.
An ending without an ending?
No.
Just as the audience left, the subtitles were over.
The camera lit up again, and the alpha wolf fell to the ground, gasping for breath.
And vaguely in the distance, there is a tired, human back.
Maybe you and I will stand alone in the ice and snow one day, unable to feel the meaning of life.
Maybe you and I will walk between heaven and earth in such despair one day, leaving only unsendable letters in our hands.
However, you and I must move forward, even if we carry responsibilities that do not belong to you and me.
However, you and I have to move forward, even if there are a group of people behind you that you don't like.
Keep moving forward, can't turn back, until the walker has no way, slamming the cliff and writing the stone.
At this moment, it is recommended to remember the words in the story:
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
Don't be afraid.
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