“The Edge is a 1997 American survival
film directed by Lee
Tamahori and starring Anthony
Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. The plot follows wealthy businessman
Charles Morse (Hopkins), photographer Bob Green (Baldwin), and assistant
Stephen (Harold Perrineau), who must trek through the elements and try to
survive after their plane crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness; all while
being threatened by a large Kodiak
bear and the men's fraying friendships.” – Wikipedia.
I love this movie basically for one line,
the theme for this survivalist film:
Almost as dangerous for Morse (Hopkins) as
the bear that is stalking them is Green (Alec Baldwin), who has plans to murder
Morse so he can gain his super-model wife. As they work together to survive the
wilderness and Morse spares Green after a murder attempt, the two men come to a
mutual respect that is only thwarted by Green’s death just as they are rescued.
In the end Morse says that Green died saving him.
Although there is much tension and jealousy
throughout the film, great emphasis is given not to mere brute survival, but on
thinking your way out of a situation, of intelligence and humanity as a
solution out of your problems, whether it is a toxic relationship or a wintery
wilderness. The one thing you cannot do is nothing, not if you want things to
change.
- “ Charles Morse : You
know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost
in the wilds, they, they die of shame.
Stephen : What?
Charles Morse : Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What
did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit
there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save
their lives.
Robert Green : And what is that, Charles?
Charles Morse : Thinking.” - IMDB
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