I watched The Grey on Netflix. It was suspenseful, but with its completely predictable cast of characters, disappearing one at a time like nuns in the Dialogs of the Carmelites, it got rather painful toward the end. For reasons not entirely clear, Liam Neeson is in charge. As we know from other movies, he doesn't play characters that avoid danger. The question I wanted to ask, however, is the following:
You're in a plane crash in the northern wilderness...long, long, long way from anything but snow and bitter cold;
You're surrounded by wolves; you hear them howling in every direction, by the hundreds, you see their glowing eyes;
You might assume that, when the plane didn't show up (its a big plane), somebody went looking for the wreckage;
You have a choice; which is it?.
1. Should we take off walking, injured, cold and hungry, into the wilderness and the dark that is teeming with howling wolves, with no food, no idea where we are and no idea whether anything like civilization is out there?
or
2. Should we stick with the wreckage, get some shelter from the weather and the wolves in the remains of the plane, hope that somebody comes looking for the plane and can find the wreckage and its black box (a big target)?
Apparently the writers thought the answer is number 1. I'm guessing that the toughest thing they ever had to survive was a backup on the LA Freeway.
