tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post6581597031027935640..comments2023-06-26T03:29:02.111-06:00Comments on Somebody Thinks You're Fat, and Everybody Hates You: The Grey: Expert Movie Review By JanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-12041075821062347672013-02-07T07:01:38.830-07:002013-02-07T07:01:38.830-07:00Nice poem by Dylan Thomas! However, like mentioned...Nice poem by Dylan Thomas! However, like mentioned on other sites, at the very end of the movie, after most people have left the theatre, we get a glimpse of an image that to me seems like a dead wolf, suggesting, even if Liam's character may have died too in that final fight, he at least conquered his fate, to some extent, and leaves space for an open ending, indeed open to any interpretation! To me such epic fight symbolizes any fierce and profound battle we may come up against in life, not just dead at the end.... In the end you can't keep running away from the wolves, or you will be slowly devoured, piece by piece, no one has to stand up, upright like 'liam' and face your fears and give it all!Hendrik Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16793878685213361704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-36994604054010043372012-07-23T11:17:15.623-06:002012-07-23T11:17:15.623-06:00Finally got around to seeing this last night. The...Finally got around to seeing this last night. The poem is really the key and tells you everything about the meaning of the movie:<br /><br /><i>Once more into the fray<br />Into the last good fight I'll ever know<br />Live and die on this day<br />Live and die on this day</i><br /><br />It's not <i>Live <b>OR</b> die on this day</i>...it's <i>Live <b>AND</b> die</i><br /><br />The symbolism was rich and deep. The band of characters -- generally described as bad guys -- were representative of mankind..."sinners," if you swing that way.<br /><br />The wolves were the inevitability of death. We're ALL going to die...none of escape the wolves. The calmness with which Ottway walks the guy with the femoral artery wound through death brilliantly sets this tone.<br /><br />All succomb in various ways...trying against all odds (Talget), giving up (Diaz), struggling to the end (Hendrick) but they all make the attempt to live.<br /><br />Ottway knows and embraces the inevitability of death but, as the poem says, he insists on living and dying on this day.<br /><br />The poem recalled Dylan Thomas:<br /><br /><i>Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight<br />Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, <br />Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</i><br /><br />Tremendous movie...great analysis, Jan. You're right...the movie's central theme was, quite simply, death.Smokey Joe Mayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04937500294542889350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-31049294523007477782012-02-01T11:16:14.458-07:002012-02-01T11:16:14.458-07:00He is BA. Super BA in "Taken." And hot i...He is BA. Super BA in "Taken." And hot in a brooding sort of way.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462100173307687384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-76090524329134389362012-01-30T08:28:51.919-07:002012-01-30T08:28:51.919-07:00I'm glad you guys enjoyed it also. Like I said...I'm glad you guys enjoyed it also. Like I said, if you think that "Transformers" is one of the greatest films of all time, you probably will not like this film..I think some people were just expecting a good blood bath..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17505079101226753328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-58503002722510733022012-01-29T22:20:11.056-07:002012-01-29T22:20:11.056-07:00The audience rating seems low. Me and my friends r...The audience rating seems low. Me and my friends really liked it and the other people in the theater seemed to as well. Maybe we're smarter than most people. LOL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-27656970341239396352012-01-29T09:53:57.921-07:002012-01-29T09:53:57.921-07:00I thought he was a total bad @ss in Taken.. his &q...I thought he was a total bad @ss in Taken.. his "daughter" was a douche for not listening to him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17505079101226753328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038366027370854366.post-88277760686816399052012-01-28T19:31:12.265-07:002012-01-28T19:31:12.265-07:00Can't wait to see it! I love Liam Neeson. :)Can't wait to see it! I love Liam Neeson. :)Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17146196400535846006noreply@blogger.com