The Grey-Poem

The Gray - Movie Poster

Once more in to the fray...

Into the last good fight I'll ever know.

Live and die on this day...

Live and die on this day...

This are the ending lines of the movie called "THE GREY". Last scene is very very good. I liked it very much. The good thing about this movie is that it doesn't have typical Hollywood ending. Movie is based on short story called "Ghost Walker" written by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers. Main character is played by Liam Neeson and it is one of his best performances I have seen.

After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. Live or die, give up or continue to fight? If end is inevitable will you surrender or continue to fight.

Although the movie is based on the short story called "Ghost Walker" I have watched other similar movie called "Alive"  which is based on true story when airplane carrying 45 person including a rugby team crushed somewhere in Andes. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash, and several others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 29 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors were rescued on December 23, 1972, more than two months after the crash.

The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found a Chilean huaso, who gave them food and then alerted authorities about the existence of the other survivors.