The Grey - A Philosophy of Heroic Suffering
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A video essay exploring how The Grey, although poorly marketed at the time of its release, is an underrated survival film about the importance of finding meaning in desperate situations
Resources:
Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning
Featured films;
The Grey
The Revenant
Cast Away
Music;
Whitesand - Circle of Life
Source: / @whitesandcomposer
MusicMike512 - The Grey - Into the Fray/The City Surf Cover
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Renowned film critic Roger Ebert gave The Grey 3.5/4 stars and was apparently so impressed by it that he walked out of a next screening; _“It was the first time I've ever walked out of a film because of the previous film. The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film.”_
*What are your favorite underrated films? Let me know below!*
I think The Fountain is an underrated movie. It would be great if you could do a piece on that movie, I love your work!
This movie astounded me with its theme and what was more sad was that people never understood what it stood for. Thank you very.much for making this video.
As for the underrated movie. There is a movie out there: Frequencies: a much ambitious effort of combining philosophy and science fiction.
Awesome video again. 🤓
21 Grams, 20th Century Women, Cashback, Interstellar (pretty much underrated after your video essay), Kingdom Of Heaven (Director's cut), Silence, A Single Man, The Skeleton twins and so and on... :)
‘Runaway Train’ and more recently ‘Shot Caller’.
Easily the most overlooked film of the decade. I was so happy when I saw this in my subscription feed. Hope this inspired people to take a look at this film.
Devon Di Marco i agree. The decade.
It did inspire me. I have to watch this film because I am facing great difficulty to push trough the mundane grind at the moment. I need the why to that can push me to do almost any how, so to speak.
@@randomnumbers84269 I hope you find A why.
Although I got spoiled :(
I watched it when it first came out on DVD. Our roommate had rented it and let us watch it. Love this movie.
That was awesome, and as a cancer patient with rare and aggressive cancer undergoing an aggressive chemotherapy it is much needed.
"Once more into the fray,
Into the last good fight I'll ever know,
Live and die this day.
Live and die this day".
Hope your treatment went/is going well.
Godspeed, James.
Kick it’s ass brother
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Hope your still kicking.
This is such an optimistic message. Even if everything is lost, one’s life can have meaning until the very last second because it’s an opportunity to face a calamitous situation with courage and maybe grace.
Wonderful comment, thank you.
Keep going brother. Give life a fight.
Like Jesus!
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Thank you LSOO, and thank you Mr. Frankl (RIP)
Whenever life feels like too much I always find my way back to this video. It always helps and gives me some kind of warmth when I'm cold
"i just had the clearest thought...i'm done"
I loved that part of the movie. Could totally understand where he was coming from. Told my friend who could not comprehend it. One of those moments where you realize some people just haven't been there.
me in college
When I first saw this I thought that character had given up. Now though, I view him differently. He did change and find meaning from the plane crash up until that point where he sat down and accepted his fate. His meaning was found by dropping his false bravado and tough guy act and confronting his weakness and mortality. Once he dropped his ego (with help from Neeson's character and the knife to the throat!), he listened, learned, and helped others in the group. Even his last words express this as "I just had the clearest thought, I'm done." His journey was over and he accepted his fate quite clearly.
@@neildbarker I honestly still find it cowardly. It went against the very message and is the exact opposite of what Liam Neeson learned and strived for.
@@lastword8783 They need not be the same. We create the meaning in our lives. Liam found meaning in fighting against fate. The other guy found meaning in accepting it.
What I only realized over time is this movie has a happy ending but in a very weird way. It so brilliant that the film ends where it does because he has found his will to live again. It doesn't matter what happens next to him. He achieved something very few people have.
I remember the very last scene where Liam Neeson looks at the camera. That's it. That's all he does is look and in that one look you can see and feel so much. I can't even describe it, one of the best moments captured on film I've ever seen. Ultimate despair into fierce, meaningful determination
There was an end-credit scene that shows what happened.
I think he begins to smile, knowing that he will likely see his beloved wife, previously passed. His smile then turns to a predatory, aggressive scowl as he accepts the challenge of the fight. The last good fight he'll ever know. Once more into the fray.
Just to add to your viewpoint - the last look Liam Neeson gives.....it changes a face with hopelessness and despair to a face with courage and determination. But most importantly for me....that look captured the animal within him (us too) which when cornered from all angles (physically, emotionally, spiritually) will come out....all guns blazing...without giving a thought to the result or repercussions. That look, the scene and the hauntingly beautiful background score proved that life will burst out in the most unimaginable situations too.
@@ajitsuttatti that's really good
Once more into the fray
To fight the last good fight I will ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day
-This has always stuck out to me from this film and have never forgotten it to this day from seeing it in theatres
Same here :)
..."do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning,
They do not go gentle into that good night..."
Good night :)
I have this tattooed on my forearm
TJR should have gone with forehead if you are serious about it
Ebomb 113 yup 👍🏻
Liked this movie since I first saw it. People just expected Taken. Liam neeson is a great actor.
I dont want to generalize a people but i think it was far to bleak for American audiences, This film in my eye's is a master piece, it seems as though it is a real experience its not a sad ending for the sake of being sad or have happy moments to bring levity. The "happy" moments in this film seem like real human reaction to very bleak moments rather than a suspension of danger and narrative to let the audience exhale.
It optimizes the poem by Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Another impeccable video, sir. The idea of finding personal meaning against the apparent meaninglessness of the universe is an idea that's always resonated with me, and is probably why I continually revisit films like The Grey years after their release. Stanley Kubrick expressed a similar sentiment in a 1968 interview, which I feel perfectly encapsulates these ideas:
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
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...
I saw this movie right before my last (3rd) deployment
and I would recite this to myself in my head and it gave me peace.
It's quite an experience going into a film expecting "Taken with wolfs" and instead finding a somber examination on life, death, and finding purpose in the face of insurmountable odds.
Another great, underappreciated Liam Neeson film in my opinion is A Walk Among the Tombstones. Like The Grey, I think it was easy to mistake it for another of Neeson's action flicks, but this time around it was actually an incredibly dark detective thriller more in the vein of something like 8mm. While I wouldn't say it's as good as The Grey, it is still well worth watching with great supporting performances from Dan Stevens and David Harbour, before his breakout role in Stranger Things.
Four years ago I had nothing but this video, watching it again and remembering how much I clung to every single word and thought; I'd never believe I'd fight for so long and end up even winning some battles. I can't put into words how thankful I am for your work
I've never seen this film before, but this video makes me really want to check it out. Loved this video man, your channel needs at least 100X as many subscribers.
Thanks Daniel! And you should definitely check out The Grey if you get the chance!
1 year. Hope you have seen it by now.
Did you?
OTOH this is one of my favorite films, and this video helped me further understand why.
Hey man, it’s been 3 years. Have you watched it yet??
This reminds me so much of my mother who passed away from Cancer. She never complained once, she never said what happened her to was bad or she was unlucky. she stayed strong for us and fought right until the end. This video helped me to see her triumph in this desperate situation.
Your videos seem to always come out during times of inner reflection for me and they resonate with me so much.
I'm really happy I found your channel, your videos never disappoint.
I look forward to seeing your channel grow.
Thanks! Me too :)
this is the video that hooked me onto your channel, it's more moving than i care to express.
"Usually, when a man is about to lose everything, he realizes what mattered to him most. He sees it clearly for the first time." ~Anderson Dawes
@@blackberet747 And why do you believe that we are all going to a better place after death instead of realizing the best place is here and now? You should be afraid of death, only then can you be grateful for the time you have on this planet. However, death is natural and should be embraced when the moment comes.
Pure, beautiful, courage, distilled through the rocky terrain and icy water, to give further strengthened purpose and fresh start reached
One of the greatest endings I’ve ever seen in a movie, an incredibly rare instance of a movie that adds an entire layer of to the story with a single shot, a layer that left me absolutely horrified and encouraged at the same time
I am not a fan of the deceptive marketing, but at the sometime without it would not have gotten my 16 yr old self to see the movie in the first place. Which turned out to be one of the best and inspiring movies I have ever seen.
I am going through the roughest time in my life, and was reminded of this movie. Just rewatched two weeks ago. Then a friend of mine recommended me Viktor Frankl. I started reading him 3 days ago. I was astounded how this movie complemented the book.
Now I just saw this video explicitly making the connection between them. Such a great coincidence for me.
Wow that is a great coincidence! Sorry to hear you're going through a rough time, I wish you all the best!
May you find 'great' meaning. Remember the words of Robert Frost, 'The only way out is through'. I find great power on this. I oftentimes change it to 'the only way through is out'. Helped me find a smile through great suffering.
TU 🙏🏻
i actually remembered this movie too. im also having hard time right now but its about work and im really thinking of quiting this hell now. i hope ill get another job immediately
You will never know for sure if it IS really the roughest time in your life yet...
I’m sorry to hear that my friend. Leave it to god and god will make you happy and all your dreams come true. If you want someone to talk to I’m here my friend. I pray you’re forever happy and all your dreams come true.
A beautiful movie and wonderfully gracious analysis. Please, keep spreading inspiration with your analyses.
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You find strength through suffering I'm only 31 but I know this
😉😗😙😚😙😗
I randomly saw this movie one night....and i randomly saw this video on the feeds...i don't regreat a second for watching both of them! Very meaningful and inspirational content for a man's everyday life. When death smiles at you,you smile back.
The camera focused on Neesons eyes at the end was brilliant, you can't fully see his expression nor dies he speak any words. I think he begins to smile, knowing that he will likely see his beloved wife, previously passed. His smile then turns to a predatory, aggressive scowl as he accepts the challenge of the fight. The last good fight he'll ever know. Once more into the fray.
I am absolutely blown away by your channel. Hope you are proud
Words can’t describe how this movie Made me feel. Even as a very young teen this movie gave me goosebumps bumps that I will never forget.
I always watch this video when I feel I've lost all hope or that I've been dealt a bad hand in life.
I remember seeing this film in the theaters and let me tell you, I was so pissed off with the ending lol. I remember telling my film teacher Howie Movshovitz about it. He told me succinctly, "Don't let that shit bother you." To this day, when I hear the soundtrack into the fray, I get emotional, this video made me cry not gonna lie. A frustrating but powerful and moving film.
This movie was a masterclass but only if you truly understand the meaning of life 🙏🏻
The Grey really impressed me for taking the survival-in-the-wilderness genre so formidably back to the basics. Thank you for your equally impressive review. 🐺
Just saw it recently aswell, this film needs to be popularized.
This movie was far more than I expected. I was greatly impressed with the depth of it. The scene when Frank Grillo accepted his fate with perfect clarity...to see him bare his soul and accept it...this was one of the most powerful moments I have ever seen in film. Truly a great movie
The Grey become my second favorite movie after Interstellar. As person who has major depressive disorder i cried every time i watch this movie. Ottway's story is similar with me. I lost my love, both my parents. I have nothing left in this fvcking world. Overall, life is so pointless and meaningless.
I'm mad late to this comment but I find it incredible that my personal 1st and 2nd favorite movies are Interstellar and The Grey. Like minds!
Mine is also "Interstellar" and
"Lady in the Water", most of M Night Shyamalan's movies tbh.
I am sorry Brother to hear that, hang in there, you have still much to live for, you need to embark on that self discovery journey self love journey again, and there are plenty of good people out here :)
The more we isolate ourselves the more cruel or smaller our world becomes
If it is to any consolation, I have been alone all my life, i have not known love or been able to love, but i'm starting to believe again that maybe I too am loveable & can find a good person to share that love with.
I am happy you experienced love and a family to whom you can miss and still have a belonging to, because it means they are still with you :)
So you still have a lot my friend
And these movies helps us find ourselves back again, make sense and accompany us in these heavy feelings, they make us feel lighter and seen and heard afterwards.
Find your gusto to fight again and get out with a bang just like Ottway did at the end, he did not give up the fight✊
@@alejandronava4807 wow that is really unbelievable , what are the odds!?
Push on
You miss the point of the film my brother. There is ALWAYS SOMETHING to live for. God bless.
Amazing breakdown. Not only the film but also the struggles we are all confronted with. I am impressed that you could watch the film and reflect on the stories meaning to the point where these isolated moments of beauty could be found and articulated. You honestly gave a different life to the frame. Thank you. This has helped me develop a tone and underlying inner struggle for a script I am working on. Keep it up!
Everyone thought it would just be another action-packed Liam Neeson but I'm very happy it was much more than that.
I wept at the end of this movie. An absolute monumental movie.
Hey, Tom, just wanted to say how much this video of yours changed my life. A few days ago the power was cut in my apartment because I hadn't paid my bill and it is now the beginning of winter with the weather being dangerously cold. I was low on cash, all my friends who I turned to rejected my appeals for help in time of need and I was very close to giving up hope. But I watched this video just to try and cheer myself up and I found something inside me that I thought was gone...strength...I decided that this wouldn't be it and that I would rough it out for the week or so that I had until I could pay my bill. And now I have...and I probably couldn't have done it without your work on this video...so I just wanted to say from the bottom of my heart...thank you and keep doing what you're doing.
I’ve watched this film with a couple of friends before and some of them are very surface level thinkers. They were very disappointed with the ending of the film but I absolutely loved it. I always enjoy films that make you think and dive deeper into the underlying meaning of the film. This a criminally underrated film that has been taken viewed to much by its surface level content. Great analysis!
Thank you for this video. I loved this movie so much because it resonated with me. Having delt with depression and a suicide attempt I know first hand how tough the struggle is when finding meaning and a reason to keep living. It was easy for me to take a lesson from this movie. It becomes easier to find little meanings when your well practiced at looking for them.
possibly everyone of us can relate to the situation ottway is in somewhere in life. it just happened in my case that this situation is right now..
i guess the most difficult aspect in these kinds of circumstances is to be without a person to talk to. but thanks to the internet you do not need to know those individuals personally anymore.
therefore i want you to understand on how many levels this video spoke to me emotionally. no other person couldve helped me in the way you did. so please accept my "thank you" in lack of a better term which could express my gratitude..
at last i wanted to compliment you on the choice of the music accenting your soothing voice + the topic of suffering which pose a near perfect mixture altogether.
i think creators need to know the value their work creates and how it impacts the lives of us viewers. so please never stop doing these videos and stay as a shining example of what people may cause while pursuing their calling.
once again
thank you
- princeps
Well put, indeed.
Excellent video, as always. Another underrated film that deals with desperation and suffering from a religious point of view is Martin Scorsese's Silence. Looking forward to listening to your analysis of this film someday!
I loved Silence! Hopefully someday I will get around to it!
I recommend you the book as well. It's amazing. Thank you so so much for your videos. They are profound, intelligent and touching :-)
The grey is about existentialist meaning, not religious religious. While these aren't necessarily binaries, in the greys case they almost certainly are.
The film is about human will constructing meaning in the absence of external meaning- it's extremely secular. Almost anti religious in my opinion.
Carnahan, the director says:
“Listen if an atheist sees this film they say, ‘There’s no way he [Liam Neeson’s character] believes in God.’ If the most hardcore Christian sees this film, they say, ‘Absolutely he believes in God’ and I think it’s a lot like the ‘God helps those who help themselves’ idea that if you are motivated and have the self-interest and have the self-survival and you get out and get after it and struggle to live, then you’ll in some way be taken care of. You’ll be in some way rewarded and then sometimes not. This is the way of the universe and certainly it’s the way of nature. Nothing is given. Nothing is certain and I think that as you get older you start to think about things. You start to think about your own mortality, your own advancing age. …There are things that start to occur to you where you go, ‘What’s out there? What’s waiting for me? What’s the afterlife look like? Is there an afterlife?’ All these things that… listen we’re given the ability to abstract thought. We should consider these things I guess from time to time. These were things that were certainly weighing on me as I was writing it and again the beauty of having that kind of time is that I was able to go back and look at the pages and explore them and kind of root around in them to hopefully extract the things that were meaningful to me. But I think it’s absolutely spiritual, ‘religious,’, and deals with those things. I don’t shy away from but I also don’t try to. I think the film is non-denominational. Let’s say that.”
Also it is worth noting Neeson is catholic, i wonder if there are hidden meanings we just arn't seeing yet.
@@LikeStoriesofOld I loved that movie, i felt as if scorsesse had changed himself into someone dufferent in order to make this film. Please make a vídeo about it and please keep on, you are a really unique... "TH-camr"?... Well either way, what you do is great.
this is the single most underrated movie of all time. i don't care about some of those movies people call gems. this is character development at its absolute finest. frank and liam deliver life time performances take consideration that liam lost his wife ... horrifically.
So true, great comment, thank you
Again, you have an insight and way of articulating yourself that brings hope and life. These essays themselves are an incredible art form and you're knocking it out of the park. Keep them coming. I've grown to look forward to these.
An absolute masterpiece of a film. I don’t even know how many times I’ve seen it at this point but I never get tired of it.
When I saw this film, I hadn’t seen any ads for it, or promotion. And I thought the movie, and ending was so beautiful.
When Ottaway finds himself in the den and says, "I'm in their fucking den", I got chills.
I love this damn movie omg.
Thanks for all the book and movie tips! I'm reading King, Warrior, Magician, Lover right now and it has definetely given me a life changing perspective on life. Specially in combination with watching your videos about the different Archetypes. Thanks again :*
*Truly gorgeous take on the film, and a lovely use of quotes.*
Wonderful analysis. This video feels motivational in a good, non-cheesy way. Having Adagio playing helps with that, too :)
Thanks! The music definitely helped a lot ;)
Second time I have watched this movie now, the first being a few years ago, as it was on TV, I recorded it and gave it a re-watch, still an absolutely tragic and beautiful movie, not gonna lie, it still had me close to tears by the end and I'm a 49 yo man.
Now I understand my depression and how I took up responsibility for myself and became a stronger person. I underwent heroic suffering.......
My mom died about a year ago from cancer, and thankfully I was able to be with her to the very end. I was then at a point of deep questions about the meaning of life and how I fit in. What is all this suffering for? Are we to work difficult jobs, make sacrifices and then die suddenly before we are ready? Some months later this video appeared in my recommendations, so I clicked because I remembered hating The Grey years ago when I saw it and wanted an explanation. I can honestly say this video started me on a journey that has enriched my life in profound and lasting ways. Despite its conspicuous flaws I now fully appreciate The Grey and it’s universal message about the meaning of suffering, our choices to suffer bravely, and the revelation for me that it isn’t mankind who gets to ask questions of life, it is we who are being questioned, and we who are free to answer in a way befitting our conscience. I have now read V. Frankl book about a half dozen times, and if you’ve made it this far in this comment on this video you definitely should read it too, it’s a very inexpensive and short book but very helpful.
Thanks to this channel for excellent and unique content. It has helped me immensely.
It's reality when I say this, I got this meaning in God. But I don't ever expect God to do anything for me, because He gives me spiritual things. Strength. I learned from monastic christians (Orthodox Christianity) That the son of god died on a cross, why should I expect any less? God did not send down his angels to save him, why would he do that for me? You learn to die every single day, and live every single day. My day is not won through my success, but from my failure. That I will struggle and suffer through every single day. That my eye will always twitch at a strange time. That I will deal with the abuse from others, and the past with grace and forgiveness. That I will feel love and conviction for what I believe in, and that in my death for this, I succeed. That in my daily struggle and suffering, I grow stronger.
Yes, that is exactly the message I take from Christ on the cross too. People pray or expect God to give them pleasurable things. But God gives strength to go through pain, unfair judgment, refusal, attacks, suffering. With courage, love and compassion without trying to revenge in attack. Thanks for your comment.
I suffered horrible things, I found myself in this situation but with a different thing. An illness and difficulty that couldn’t be changed. I had a situation where I was at the end and everyone I loved was against me. I had failed out of college and was very intelligent. I had nothing. But this has changed. And now, I have my meaning. And begin to bear anything.
The other thing to remember is that once you are saved, if God was done with us we would be instantly in heaven, we are not because we have a mission, to live this life for Christ. And as the Bible tells us, we will be hated as Jesus was hated, we will be made fun of, we will be chastised and we will experience trials and tribulations. Through all of that are faith in our Savior must remain. I do love this movie, and see it reminds me of the verse in Timothy, "2 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. "
Mumbo jumbo pish!
This is a powerful film that has stayed with me. I couldn't understand why it was panned by critics. I think part of the main characters key is anger. Anger is one of the facilities that enable survival. Thank you for the wonderful videos you make.
I watched this movie with my family, at the end a lot of people booed. On the way back to the car they complained about how the movie ended on a cliffhanger. I told them I loved the movie and the ending, I was only bummed out about missing that end scene after the credits which I later saw on blu ray. Definitely on my top 10.
Hope is the word! without it we cannot endure suffering
This was one of the best movies I've ever seen that I did not know about...
Watched it all alone in a movie theater in Malta at at midnight with a bag of popcorn.. one of the best memories that I have.
You continue to knock these videos out of the park. Bravissimo! 👏
A moment I don't see talked about much is the very first death scene after the crash when the main character tells the guy he is dying and then he does. That was perhaps one of the if not the most realistic death scenes in a movie I have ever seen. That's EXACTLY whats it's like, it's exactly how people act, and the guy dying portrayed what he was going through perfectly. The "somethings not right" was haunting and everything he said afterwards shows the exact train of thought of people who are about to die unexpectedly. Insanely well done scene, it gave me some anxiety just watching it and I neeeever get that from movies.Overall great fucking film
A buddy and i watched this on release in college. This movie spoke to my soul
very clever, connecting Frankl. he's a very underrated existentialist and his main themes (finding meaning in suffering, et al.) can be traced back to Sartre (and beyond) but clearly dovetail into more modern examples of media and thought. I guess good ideas don't go out of style... I really enjoy your content. as always, thank you.
HIT ME
This quote from the Joker actor Heath Ledger from "The Dark Knight" made a huge impact on me and inspired me to create a philosophy. It helped me make peace with all of that. Through practices of all kinds. I have learned to love my trauma, my illness, my feelings, my thoughts, my conflicts, my life and ultimately my suffering. The hits are a fact of life and the key to enlightenment. A hit affects you, internally or superficially. Everyone and everything has this HIT ME side in it. HIT ME always works. And you will never be disappointed with this life expectation. Because something always hits you. Even if you don't want to be hit by something, it still hits you. Hence, it still works as a life expectation. It even works when positive things hit you. Like soft raindrops or a soap bubble. Same as joy or bliss. Hit me all the way, in any way, anyway (even if sometimes or often I don't want it). If you commit yourself to such an idea, you decipher the path to enlightenment. It is therefore a good reason to follow the path of loving our suffering. Because it brings you great benefits. From ourselves, when we don't want to be hit and don't want to take in the hits, to the desire to be hit and take in the hits. It always works, regardless of the form. Once one has developed a certain level of this practice, one masters the suffering and becomes truly enlightened. And for conflicts, but also that which hits us in general, I quote Bruce Lee: "I do not hit. It hits all by itself."
The Way Out Of The Abyss
Only when we can accept, what we want to let go, can we let go, of what we want to accept.
A peaceful mind is the cure for restlessness.
And love is the cure for a broken spirit.
Pain is strength in disguise waiting to be revealed. And it takes a lot of strength to cry. Because when we cry, we open ourselves to the pain we experience.
When all the waves are crashing down on you, there is faith to get you through. Express your belief in reality and believe in it. This is how you get through the waves.
We make mistakes because we are not perfect. And for this fact I am grateful that I make mistakes.
Remember that the solution to any problem, is the problem itself. It came into existence and it won't leave you.
A sacrifice for love is a sacrifice worth dying for. We don't have to undo the things we do wrong or have done wrong in life. We die for it and thus sacrifice ourselves for love.
Hence, die for your negative qualities. And live for your positive qualities. That is the sacrifice and the salvation of the human spirit.
The guilt we feel is the one that enslaves us. Only when we also remember our innocence are we free at the same time.
There is nothing in this universe that can harm a mad person. Except to make the mad person even more insane through harm.
When one is ready to take in all hits, in order to gain strength from them and at the same time is ready to pass on all the love out of compassion to others; one will be as strong as a demon and as compassionate as an angel. A demonic angel.
A victory can be achieved by resolving the battles within.
When you give up fighting yourself and instead start absorbing yourself; you will be invincible.
When you change the powers that hold you back, into the powers that hold your back, you will be unstoppable.
You are an example of what a human being is capable of. Use the hits as fuel for the ascent.
Because the greatest bliss is found when you make peace with your suffering. Because suffering is the root of blissfulness. If you love your suffering, blissfulness arises. And blissfulness is the key to heaven on earth.
When you conquer yourself by loving yourself, your fears, your pain and ultimately your suffering; then it will transform you and you will be reborn.
In order to overcome suffering, one must become suffering oneself.
Because when you are one with all, you are bound by nothing and therefore free from everything.
And by becoming one with suffering, you master it.
The journey to enlightenment is a process that involves a lot of suffering. But in the end, every moment of suffering will be worth it. Because choosing to suffer consciously is the springboard to enlightenment.
This is how you remember your origin and you begin to embody it.
Because where there is suffering, the love spark resides. And the fire is kindled where God or consciousness enters and spreads.
Become Ryu, the dragon. Become suffering. Have a relationship with the suffering (HIT ME) from sadness to madness. And become the suffering yourself, (HIT ME) and the hits. And Ryu, the dragon spreads its wings and rises with the darkening and the enlightenment. So the dragon finds the way out of the abyss.a
I, like you, really love this film, and really liked your analysis. My own personal view is that the film is a metaphor for life itself, with life being represented primarily by the wolves. Wolves are pack animals. Part of what they do is coordinate to run down and wear out prey. When dealing with larger animals, or more dangerous ones, a common tactic is to wear down the target with repeated attacks, usually just quick, opportunistic attacks to slowly inflict light injuries that gradually add up and weaken their prey, until it has been worn down to a point where it really cannot put up much of a fight, at which point the pack can then finish off its prey quickly and effectively. The same is true of life. People living in the first world are generally unaware of it, but the truth is that life is harsh, relentless, and does not at all care about us. The universe at all times is generally trying to kill us in one way or another, be it with gravity, radiation, disasters, or any number of other means, but it is without malice. It is simply doing what it does. When things go south, that is when you really notice it, like a pack of wolves constantly nipping at your heels, trying to find your weak points, and wearing you down. Some people get caught off guard, and are taken out before they have a chance to react, or process what's happened. Others eventually get worn down, and just give up, letting themselves be taken. Yet still others eventually get frustrated, turn around, and charge headfirst into whatever issue they are dealing with, deciding to just let fate work out as it may. But for those that do choose to fight, even if they win, eventually there will be another battle to fight, and another after that, until eventually they lose. Just like in life, we lose people we love, we get fired from our jobs, have marriages fail, or find ourselves in pandemics, and unable to connect with the people we want to, with our lives completely disrupted. It is the relentless march of time and reality that will inevitably kill us at some point or another, but it doesn't have to be today.
At the end of the day, we can pray for help, but whether or not you believe in a higher being or not, that being will not always step in to help you, at which point you can give up, or do it yourself. As for myself, I have that cliche Irish stubbornness, and for whatever reason, even when I want to just give up, some part of me just gets frustrated and annoyed by the idea, and I pick myself again, and go once more into the fray.
I went in expecting the big fight scene and an action flick. It was so much more, and makes me choke up up ten years later. So good.✌️🇺🇸
You made me cry man i love this movie, and no could explain it better than you 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
Fukin love when “The City Surf” soundtrack slowly rises. This movie is unbelievably perfect.
After watching this movie I thought only an Irishman would confront God in such a manner.
Here from Absolute Unit's video. Such a strong message from this film it seems. Shame some movies are marketed to just be thrill rides, when really they're more meant to be things to study and understand.
I’ve never been brought to tear by a TH-cam video or anything this short. Ever. Thank you for this piece of beauty
Thank you. I always saw this movie as a metaphor just like you explained. I got hit by a sudden health problem at 20 and im 27 now and i cant change the situation. Through the battle I hav figured out i need to change myself. Find my reason to keep going. Im in tears now. Thank you for doing this video. This movie was marketed wrongly.
Once more into the fray...
The last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...
Hey Like Stories of Old. Not sure if you will ever see this but I hope you do. As a soldier coming out of Syria I just wanted to say how important this video is to me, I've never quite related to something to the point it moved me to tears. I cannot speak for everyone, but I believe in many soldiers, particularly those who chose combat roles, we always have the aspiration to be heroes or at least do something that feels heroic. In the state of modern warfare, it fills us with great despair when we are unable to find that. That meaning.
Here suffering can be unimaginable. Scorching heat, the most debilitating sickness you could face, being worked until you are dead, being deprived of sleep around the clock, sometimes food was very little or even unavailable. For a month all we could eat were expired rations and local food. The filth, hygiene was often very difficult in these conditions, which brings its own host of problems. Insects eat you alive, sometimes the flies don't let you sleep. And even under all this your leadership resolves to torment you, driving you to the point you want to end it all. For what is all this suffering for? Why must I be made to endure this? Can I? Can I handle even one more month of this? One more week? Salvation is so far out of sight it may as well not be there. And the reasons I even came out here are nonexistent.
This video hit me like a truck when I saw it. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." I love that quote but it hardly applies to me. I have no who to fight for, no wife, no girlfriend, no child. I feel very alone often. When I must think of reasons to live I must always ponder to myself and only myself how and why. Yet for all the suffering I've endured I keep going for seemingly no reason, like Ottway and I wonder just like he does. No great battles are fought, no glorious evidence to give me purpose and the sense of accomplishment I fantasize of. Just the constant and unnecessary suffering that becomes more and more unfair and cruel with each passing day. You begin to feel betrayed. The world you understood and tried to fight for now works against you, and it seems to despise you. There is no climax to give all this hardship context, just the inherent suffering with no reward. As if you are a prisoner and not even a warrior. So many times I came so close to putting my M4 in my mouth. Usually after leaders were tormenting me yet again, but I just couldn't lift the barrel or pull the trigger and I just don't know why. When you show me Ottway screaming out to God it hit me so hard. So many times I asked him why I was here and why I was doing all this. Why did it have to be like this. You said we must find the answers ourselves.
Then you said to face this situation with courage IS the triumph. Just surviving the suffering is worth fighting for. Just to see how far you can make it is worth living for. "Death is so final, but life. Life is full of possibilities." I fight to escape, to find those possibilities. Every day you live against it is another victory. Another battle you have rightfully won as a warrior and Valhalla will welcome you for it. Not everyone could have done this, but you have. That is what heroic suffering is.
Thank you for this, it means means to me more than words can say.
Hey, thank you for sharing that, I hope you are doing well!
Great Video, actually gave me some hope for my own situation.
I just found it on youtube.
Like Stories of Old you are amazing! I knew since I was watch this movie, there is a deeper meaning. But you.. You did put this puzzle together and you show us whats is all behind! You are brilliant! Thank you!
The only movie I've seen in the theaters where, when the movie ended, an audible groan of disappointment in how it ended could be heard all around the theatre. The response came abruptly. But while they groaned, I pumped my fist and internally said, hell yea. What a way to end. I couldn't believe the other movie-goers. Some people need things wrapped up in just a certain way, lacking the desire to have their own imagination be gifted with opportunity to contribute. For me, the movie was epic and profound. Great youtube video here, btw, as well.
You totally missed when he repented in the end. Once he finds himself in the den, he arranges the wallets into a cross, and while on his knees, he clasps his hands and bows his head in prayer. It's very brief and subtle, but no doubt the filmmaker had a reason in arranging those shots as such. Give the ending another look-- as a Christian, I caught it on the first watch.
It's uneccesary for where the message comes from. Strength is self found.
And dies only to find out he should have prayed to Odin.
@@gavinfitch8406 Except that his character is that of a person who lost his faith and found it again before the end. Also, Carahan has gone on record saying this film is about faith
The conclusion you made of the difference between "the grey" and other survival films was incredible. Fuckin' Hell man. Keep up the good work..!
“Go on, prove it, show me something real!”
Been coming back here since 2018
Thank you so much. I needed this.
Your Eckhart Tolle like voice combined with powerful visuals and ancient profound sayings never fails to bring me to tears, on the first viewing of each video.
Your channel is criminally underrated bro!
Incredible content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -LIVE AND DAY ON THIS DAY
Liam Neeson's best movie I have seen by far. Incredible, thought provoking, well-directed, shocking and heartwarming start to finish. Unfortunately it was severely underrated and received a fraction of the attention it deserved but it will remain as an achievement of its own, hopefully hopefully it will find its way through the generations and not be forgotten as it sometimes feels it is today.
Fantastic analysis on top of that, you did it justice and got to the root of some of its more poignant and uplifting themes.
the people in this video are ones that i strive to be. i always continue to find the meaning life, even when life feels like it wants me dead, i find a way to carry on, until that moment that comes may be my last, i continue to fight regardless, i will always fight, and i will never stop going forward. and before that time, i always remember my own set of words, ''the universe can disappoint me me, hurt me, or even kill me, but it will not break me''.
Love your videos. Great analysis, great naration.
Your beautiful voice and beautiful mind have been helping me find my way through one of the most difficult periods in my life. Thank you so much for doing what you do. Thank you.
This is something i'd love to share and show everyone, but no one i know shares the same passion for things like this. shame. Great video mate, moving.
Thanks a lot, very interesting.
I can tell from the first 10 seconds that this video is simply on another level of goodness
It's always a treat to find these type of channels on youtube 😁
This movie was made in the Freezing cold. Too cold for anything less than a epic survival film. Biting cold that penetrates the core, fight for life. Life sure makes living into a kind of self realization that cannot be determined in words like for better or worse. Life to be or not to be; these actors are for real. Nothing less that the A-Team for all who have made this Epic Movie in the Freezing Cold. Thanks for your vision, Brian Koller
"Life" owes us nothing that we expect it to, but it is we that owe this "life" the privilege of our of very existence. How many of us, in moments of great despair, look to the sky for an answer. And when we don't get one, we sink even deeper into it. We confront the crossroads of either living or dying in those moments. But "life" owes us nothing, because you already exist.
A fantastic video. This gave me alot more insight not only from the movie, but about my own personal life. Thank you.
The closer we are to death
The more we feel alive
There are a handful of things in life that once witnessed, will forever change your perspective on life, for better or for worse. This film is one of them. It's burned into my mind and I will never be able to forget it.
Your channel is one of those channels for me that I just need to watch every video as quickly as possibly in case the internet goes down for good or youtube deletes all it's databases for some freak reason. I'm at panic that I might not be able to watch them all.
This is Beautiful! but, can you explain this poem:
_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._
Its a person coming to grips with the fact that he is going to have get through whatever is challenging him. At least to me. The things with poems and art as a whole is that its incredibly subjective and its up to you to take whatever you want to take from the poem. So i guess the question is, what does it mean to you.
Talking about poetry always reminds me of this scene from Dead Poets Society: th-cam.com/video/LjHORRHXtyI/w-d-xo.html, followed by this one: th-cam.com/video/aS1esgRV4Rc/w-d-xo.html
It means the warrior is facing his death. His last fight. Went in breathing and didn’t come out of the fight alive. Every single person who has ever lived and died has done it on the same day. . The Wolf died and so did Liam’s character. The Grey was the Fray that day, and that’s all I have to say. Good day.
Night Crawler once more trying. Once more waking up in the morning. The human existence. Not giving up. Once more putting yourself out there. Living proudly and with courage. Dying a man.
Night Crawler I read it as a celebration of the fight, or “fray” itself. The triumph is in the suffering; transforming defeat into victory by recognising that in facing it willingly, unbowed, one’s last fight can become a “good” fight- good in the sense that you had the courage to face it. It is in this kind of meeting of death that one fully lives.
This was an incredible and moving film with a deep message.