{"id":50712,"date":"2012-06-16T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=50712"},"modified":"2012-06-18T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T07:40:18","slug":"review-the-grey-exhibits-masculine-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=50712","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; &#8220;The Grey&#8221; Exhibits Masculine Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Sven Eick from <a href=\"http:\/\/vokpops.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/buddha-hand-in-popcorn-bucket.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">his blog <\/span><\/a>\u2013 via henrymakow.com June 15, 2012<\/h1>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VRWF4cepn8U?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VRWF4cepn8U?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<h5><em>The Grey<\/em> is a story about a ragtag group of Alaskan oil workers who find themselves stranded in the midst of the Alaskan winter following an air crash and are subsequently hunted down by man-eating wolves.<\/h5>\n<h5>This is as ridiculous a premise for a work of art as you&#8217;re likely to hear any time soon &#8211; <em>The Way Home<\/em> meets <em>The Silver Bullet<\/em>. Yet this premise serves as the foundation of one of the most haunting, sensitive and compelling meditations on mortality, loss and courage I have come across.<\/h5>\n<h5><em>The Grey<\/em> is powered by Liam Neeson in the role of a sharpshooter employed by the oil company to protect its field workers from wild wolves. The film charts his progress along a path from despair, through disaster, to redemption in the face of hopeless odds in the bleak Alaskan midwinter.<\/h5>\n<h5>The cinematography of the film is superb and evocative, while the haunting soundtrack deftly weaves emotion through vistas of pristine North American wilderness.<\/h5>\n<h5>However, it is Liam Neeson who transforms <em>The Grey<\/em> into something special\u2026<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/review_-_the_grey_exhibits_mas.html\">Continues in full at source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood has played a central role in emasculating men. But a new movie, &#8220;The Grey&#8221; is an exception. Includes video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":50714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50813,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712\/revisions\/50813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}