Far North: A survival movie with a twist

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A thread about the movie The Grey got me thinking about another survival movie starring Michelle Yeoh called "Far North" .

It was based on a short story written by author Sara Maitland (she shared a house with Bill Clinton in college). It is a story about two women who lived in an isolated frozen wilderness and an army deserter who happened to encounter them. Without revealing the ending, all I can say is that it has a gruesone twist. If you are able to get ahold of this movie, the DVD extras show the difficulties of filming in a very harsh and remote northern environment.
 
I seen this one. The ending was a trip, life is taken and life is given. Every individual must do what is necessary for immediate survival what ever that may be and what is deemed unnatural in one culture maybe totally acceptable in another. I've read some strange tales about the Inuit tribes so I don't know. I like the movie, I saw it on YouTube.
 
Is the twist that a character played by Sean Bean survived the duration of a movie?

looking into it now.
 
[video=youtube;57cxOMgMnP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57cxOMgMnP4[/video]
 
clayton c said:
I seen this one. The ending was a trip, life is taken and life is given. Every individual must do what is necessary for immediate survival what ever that may be and what is deemed unnatural in one culture maybe totally acceptable in another. I've read some strange tales about the Inuit tribes so I don't know. I like the movie, I saw it on YouTube.
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That's an interesting observation; it may be cultural, but my interpretation is that in this case, it was a psychological reason...
 
Just finished watching it. Very good recommendation.

I particularly liked the setting. I thought it was just going to be Inuit in Alaska. But you keep noticing things and details being out of place until it all comes together. Several hints that it was actually on Svalbard, or an island north of russia in either an alternate timeline around the cold war, or apocalyptic future.
 
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Munky88 said:
Just finished watching it. Very good recommendation.

I particularly liked the setting. I thought it was just going to be Inuit in Alaska. But you keep noticing things and details being out of place until it all comes together. Several hints that it was actually on Svalbard, or an island north of russia in either an alternate timeline around the cold war, or apocalyptic future.
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I agree, the DVD extras about Svalbard is a treat to watch. Interesting to hear about it being possibly being about an apocalyptic future, didn't think of that!
 
I saw it some time ago (on Hulu, I think!) and it was pretty good- worth the time, for sure.
 
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