I just watched this movie randomly [last night, age 32, alone] for the second time since it came out. It was surreal. I'm a decade or so older since it came out and it made a different impact on me. These days, I do the following things (which I didn't do in my early 20's) : I write in a journal daily, I write poetry, I write and record [more complicated and meaningful] music, I go to work as a high-level security guard to protect *others* and not-so-much myself as I prioritise others before myself since I'm always in pain anyway, thanks to aggressive early-onset arthritis.The very small brain tumours I have are benign .. so I don't even worry about that. Lastly and most importantly, I constantly mourn my girlfriend/fiancé Tana Esteban whom I met in 2011 but only started to really connect with and begin a romantic relationship with in 2020. We had five weeks of loving each other before she died of cancer in a matter of days, and in my mind, she was the strongest person to ever live... so why the *hell* did she have to go that way??!! I shed a few tears many times when watching the film, but absolutely broke down and cried because of two particular scenes: 1 - when it's revealed how Neeson's character's wife "left him" , and 2 - when Neeson's character shook the hand of the person who is "defeated by the whole journey" and *that* person ironically has the same name as him. My name is Liam Neville. It hit much harder. I don't know if I'm the struggling "Liam" in this world, or the one who's ready to give up entirely any moment now. R.I.P to my love Tana Esteban.
Es impresionante está escena....y cuando se conecta con la escena final y da a entender el estado de su mujer es aún más estremecedora....un nudo en la garganta.
I’ve written multiple letters over the years just to leave them out on my nightstand or on my kitchen countertop while contemplating my reasons for being in that mindset. Eventually I’ll have a good moment in a day and burn them so no one will ever read them. These events are usually followed up with days of wondering why I feel this way. The monologue from this scene is by far the most accurate description of how it is everyday. I know I will never be an old man in this world. The difficult task for me these days is finding something worth dying for. Everyday I pray for the opportunity to go out saving someone from a tragic situation. It’s difficult to put into words, but life after the Army is the most meaningless thing I’ve ever experienced. I hope that one day I find my new purpose or that opportunity pops up to give my death meaning.
I've been there, man. That precipice where the only thing that pulls you back is knowing that ending your pain will mean causing pain for someone else.
Every time i watch my fav movie, The Grey. I forget that she passed away and did not break up with him. Then it hits me again at the end. 😢 this movie should've won every award out there.
The fact that his late wife died 2 years before this film was approved and made, makes it all the more sadder, it’s like what he’s actually saying…..this is real here.
I'm grieving after a heartbreak. I remember this movie very often. I feel the same way as he. I'm completely alone and ex partner is already living with someone else. I'm a moving corpse. Already a month passed by and I will never be the same. I'm stuck in my thoughts and it is a living hell, torture.
Well his wife actually died 2 years before this film was made, so he can actually really relate to it. I really respect him because he could have said no to this film as it was still too raw for him. So really this wasn’t actually acting in the film but him being himself here.
such a shame for the wolf i do love wolves and that was a sad scene but watching the last ending when all the pack comes out and the alpha tells them to back the fuck off that its his kill thats a great scene when the alpha walks down the hill to face his own death in the last fight they will ever know sad scene at the end when they both lie against each other dying
Forever upset at how this film was marketed as a cheap, wolf hunting action movie instead of the thought-provoking, poignant film it is about humanity's inner demons and how we must fight them, and that is the beauty of life.
One of the greatest start and end, taken together, any film has ever had..... Liam has done it as if he experienced it, the pain, the loneliness of a lost love...nowhere to go...witnessing the death of few others on the way, adding further to his pain, much ...much more....
His real life wife Natasha Richardson died from a skiing accident not that long before this movie... maybe acouple years... the letter he wrote, this monologue, was to Natasha Richardson. This truly was/is art imitating life.
"There's not a second goes by......"These are some lines from Hollywood that a lonely man like me can connect to him self. There are some other's like from Great gatesby " Gatesby believed in the green light" and from Taxi Driver "lonliness has followed me everywhere... There's no escape" and also from movie Fury "I heard the voice of the Lord"
