A plane full of oil rig workers crashes in the wilds of Alaska. The ones who die are the lucky ones as the survivors are left to cope with plummeting temperatures, lack of phone coverage and a hungry pack of wolves picking them off one by one. Luckily for them they have John Ottway to protect them from the wild animals, outside and in.
The Wild sounds like a direct to video film from the 80's. There's no denying it. But to avoid it is to avoid a masterpiece. A profound, complex, beautiful movie that's so much better than the "It's Taken, but with Wolves" film it was sold as.
Watch the scene below. It's haunting.
A mesmerising three minutes. A man (James Badge Dale, vastly underrated) being gently guided through the end of his life, experiencing all 5 stages of grief in minutes, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. Ottway helps while exorcising the demons of his own sad past.
For my money its the best acting Liam Neeson has ever done. It's the best scene of 2011 and it's in the best film of 2011. A tense, terrifying, melancholic thriller in the best sense of the word.
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