When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with White Fang by Jack London. I had entire passages of that book memorized. This movie reminded me so much of the opening part, before it switches to the wolves' perspective. A bunch of roughnecks' plane goes down in the wilds of Alaska. A handful of survivors, led by Ottway (Liam Neeson) must find food and shelter or risk freezing to death. But blizzards aren't the only killers out there. A pack of wolves have closed in, deeming the men a threat to their den. Ottway knows they have no hope of rescue before the wolves get them, so he leads the men on a desperate run to the treeline, praying that they will find some way of defending themselves.
Rob said he found this movie depressing, but I had the opposite reaction. This movie is about survival, but more, it's about never giving up. Even in the face of certain death, especially in the face of certain death, never give up.
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