In this second round we have two movies. What they have in common is survival. One is The grey and the other, Alabama Moon. Which one will win?
LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!
1
Title: The grey
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Genres: Thriller and Drama
Runtime: 1 hour and 57 minutes
Languages: English and Spanish
Directed by: Joe Carnahan
Written by: Joe Carnahan and Ian MacKenzie Jeffers
Music by: Mark Streitenfield
Music by: Mark Streitenfield
Cinematography by: Masanobu Takayanagi
Cast: Liam Neeson (Ottway), Frank Grillo (Diaz), Dermot Mulroney (Talget), Dallas Roberts (Henrick), Joe Anderson (Flannery), Nonso Anonzie (Burke), James Badge Dale (Lewenden), Ben Hernandez (Hernandez), Anne Oppenshaw (Ottway's wife), James Bitonti (Ottway's father), Ella Kosor (Talget's little girl) and Jacob Blair (Cimoski).
Cinematography by: Jimmy Lindsey
Cast: Jimmy Bennett (Moon Blake),Gabriel Basso (Hal Mitchell), Uriah Shelton (Kit), Clint Howard (Constable Sanders), John Goodman (Mr. Wellington), J.D Evermore (Pap Blake), Michael P. Sullivan (Mr. Gene), John McConnell (Mr. Mitchell), Elizabeth Jackson (Rachael Gene), Kenny McLean (Officer Pete), Leonore Banks (Mrs. Broomstead), Gary Grubbs (Judge Mackin) and Mark Adam (Uncle Carter).
Plots:
1After crashing their plane in a remote and wild region of Alaska, a group of oil seekers are totally lost in the subarctic tundra. The chances of being rescued are null. Exposed to a glacial cold and extreme living conditions, the survivors, led by the tough Ottway, a hunter whose mission is to defend the drillers of wild beasts, will also suffer the tireless persecution of a herd of hungry and enormous Wolves.
2After the unexpected death of his father, a boy raised in the wild state of Alabama must learn to seek his independence.
My review:
The grey is the story of a group of oil seekers whose plane was crashed in the freeziest region of Alaska. Together they must survive the best that they can and they must beware the hungry wolves. This film is intense and has many aspects I am going to remark. Firstly Ottway's character represents a depressive person who has lost something in his life, in this case, the protagonist has lost his wife. Secondly, the wolves represent life's most negative aspects and finally, the white landscape means one of the most repeated topics: memento mori, which in latin means ''remember that you will die'' because it represents the permanent winter. This film is one of the most depressing I've ever seen, because the ending... was poignant. It makes you think Ottway has died altough fighting for his survival. This film makes us remember that we only have one life and that we are fragile by nature.
Meanwhile, Alabama Moon is a coming of age drama story about an eleven year old boy named Moon Blake who has to find its own independence. He is followed by Constable Sanders a tough sheriff whose mission is taking orphan boys into an orphanage school called Pinson. When Moon was there he befriends Hal Mitchell, a little kid with health problems who has to take his pills every day and Kit, who at the beggining was a bully but finally respected his ''weird'' way of life.
Alabama Moon is quite similar to Charles Dickens' novel ''Oliver Twist'', but there are some differences: Moon is a kid who has lost his mother and father when he is 11 years old and Oliver Twist was an orphan since he was a baby.
I enjoyed watching this film, nevertheless, the characters are childish and cartoonish. Its justification is his family-friendly genre but that is not an excuse to make a realistic film.
Movie 1 Film mark: 7,56 out of 10
Movie 2 Film mark: 5,8 out of 10
THE GREY IS THE WINNER OF THIS ROUND!
Cast: Liam Neeson (Ottway), Frank Grillo (Diaz), Dermot Mulroney (Talget), Dallas Roberts (Henrick), Joe Anderson (Flannery), Nonso Anonzie (Burke), James Badge Dale (Lewenden), Ben Hernandez (Hernandez), Anne Oppenshaw (Ottway's wife), James Bitonti (Ottway's father), Ella Kosor (Talget's little girl) and Jacob Blair (Cimoski).
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2
Title: Alabama Moon
Title: Alabama Moon
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Genres: Drama and Family
Runtime: 1 hour and 39 minutes
Language: English
Directed by: Tim McCanlies
Written by: James Whittaker (based upon the novel by Watt Key)
Music by: Ludek Drizhal
Music by: Ludek Drizhal
Cast: Jimmy Bennett (Moon Blake),Gabriel Basso (Hal Mitchell), Uriah Shelton (Kit), Clint Howard (Constable Sanders), John Goodman (Mr. Wellington), J.D Evermore (Pap Blake), Michael P. Sullivan (Mr. Gene), John McConnell (Mr. Mitchell), Elizabeth Jackson (Rachael Gene), Kenny McLean (Officer Pete), Leonore Banks (Mrs. Broomstead), Gary Grubbs (Judge Mackin) and Mark Adam (Uncle Carter).
Plots:
1After crashing their plane in a remote and wild region of Alaska, a group of oil seekers are totally lost in the subarctic tundra. The chances of being rescued are null. Exposed to a glacial cold and extreme living conditions, the survivors, led by the tough Ottway, a hunter whose mission is to defend the drillers of wild beasts, will also suffer the tireless persecution of a herd of hungry and enormous Wolves.
2After the unexpected death of his father, a boy raised in the wild state of Alabama must learn to seek his independence.
My review:
The grey is the story of a group of oil seekers whose plane was crashed in the freeziest region of Alaska. Together they must survive the best that they can and they must beware the hungry wolves. This film is intense and has many aspects I am going to remark. Firstly Ottway's character represents a depressive person who has lost something in his life, in this case, the protagonist has lost his wife. Secondly, the wolves represent life's most negative aspects and finally, the white landscape means one of the most repeated topics: memento mori, which in latin means ''remember that you will die'' because it represents the permanent winter. This film is one of the most depressing I've ever seen, because the ending... was poignant. It makes you think Ottway has died altough fighting for his survival. This film makes us remember that we only have one life and that we are fragile by nature.
Meanwhile, Alabama Moon is a coming of age drama story about an eleven year old boy named Moon Blake who has to find its own independence. He is followed by Constable Sanders a tough sheriff whose mission is taking orphan boys into an orphanage school called Pinson. When Moon was there he befriends Hal Mitchell, a little kid with health problems who has to take his pills every day and Kit, who at the beggining was a bully but finally respected his ''weird'' way of life.
Alabama Moon is quite similar to Charles Dickens' novel ''Oliver Twist'', but there are some differences: Moon is a kid who has lost his mother and father when he is 11 years old and Oliver Twist was an orphan since he was a baby.
I enjoyed watching this film, nevertheless, the characters are childish and cartoonish. Its justification is his family-friendly genre but that is not an excuse to make a realistic film.
Movie 1 Film mark: 7,56 out of 10
Movie 2 Film mark: 5,8 out of 10
THE GREY IS THE WINNER OF THIS ROUND!
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