The idea of heroic suffering was central to the 2012 movie The Grey which starred Liam Neeson.
The Grey follows the fate of a group of oil company workers who(spoiler alert) perish one by one some where in the frozen Alaskan wilderness.
Like Stories of Old breaks down how The Grey’s characters find — or don’t find — meaning in their life that would help them overcome their suffering and their predicament.
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In Neeson’s character’s case it’s a study of one man’s will to live when he believed he didn’t have much to live for.
The seven-minute video is peppered with the writing of Auschwitz camp survivor Viktor E. Frankl who authored Man’s Search for Meaning.
“It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence,” Frankl wrote in his book, a quote cited in the video.
Watch this video below for more on Frankl and his book Man’s Search for Meaning.