{"id":284967,"date":"2021-06-27T03:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-ice-road-ending-explained\/"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:16:35","slug":"the-ice-road-ending-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ice-road-ending-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Ice Road Ending Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Ice Road Ending Explained<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>\u00a0theEnding Explained is a recurring <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> in which we explore the finales, secrets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. This time, we consider the ending of the Netflix movie The Ice Road. Yes, prepare for spoilers.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there\u2019s any lesson to take away from <strong>Jonathan Hensleigh<\/strong>\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Ice<\/strong> <strong>Road<\/strong><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it\u2019s that if you put <strong>Liam Neeson<\/strong> in a truck on an expanse of melting ice with an impossibly tight window to complete a life-or-death mission, some bad-ass stuff is going to go down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix\u2019s road-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>-gone-wrong movie follows Mike (Neeson), a rough-around-the-edges, toothpick-in-mouth trucker, and his mechanic brother Gurty (<strong>Marcus Thomas<\/strong>) after they are summoned for a nail-biting mission to retrieve miners from a collapsed Manitoba diamond mine. There\u2019s one catch, though: the only way to get to the miners in time is to drive heavy trucks across miles of frozen lake water that\u2019s already starting to melt. But how hard can that<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pretty hard, it turns out. And because fending off the elements was not already difficult enough, Mike and Gurty find themselves ensnared in an elaborate web of deception while on the road. It becomes clear that those who oversee the mine paid off their workers to switch off the gas sensors down below because they knew the job was dangerous but wanted to snatch up those diamonds anyway. That led to the explosion, which in turn leaves the suits racing to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cover themselves by sending one of their own, Varnay (<strong>Benjamin Walker<\/strong>), on the rescue mission with the truckers. He tells the others that he is just an insurance guy. His <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">real<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> purpose, however, is to make sure the mission fails so none of the miners live to tell the tale of their boss\u2019s wrongdoings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when it comes to a failed mission, Mike is the wrong guy for the job. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ice Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s thrilling final act, Mike manages to trap Varnay in a truck as it falls through the ice, and Gurty is crushed between another truck and the gate of a bridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now it is up to the remaining survivors, Mike and Tantoo (<strong>Amber Midthunder<\/strong>), to complete the mission. So they speed away to the mine and arrive just in the nick of time. The miners make it out alive and spill the beans on the fact that those in charge put their lives in danger. Good prevails, and evil is punished. Family is reunited (Tantoo\u2019s brother was one of the miners), and friendships are strengthened. In the heartwarming penultimate shot at the end of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ice Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mike drives away in a new truck with a license plate that reads: \u201cTRK TRK TRK\u201d \u2014 a name that Gurty jokingly gave their rig during the mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On its surface, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ice Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seems to merely be a fun romp of a high-stakes disaster action movie. But it has a little more to say than that. Perhaps the most present theme in the movie is that of family. Indeed, this is a movie with cool stunts and delightfully frustrating roadblocks at every turn. But more than anything, it is a movie about the importance and endurance of familial bonds. The first thing we are introduced to in <em>The Ice Road<\/em> is the relationship between Mike and Gurty. It is indeed a frustrating one: Gurty is an Iraq War veteran and suffers from PTSD and aphasia. Because of that, it is hard for him to keep a job, and as his primary caretaker, that makes it hard for Mike to keep a job, as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understandably, this is aggravating for Mike. Partway through the movie, Mike unleashes his frustration on his brother, cruelly yelling at him about what a burden he is. But when Gurty later dies, Mike realizes that his brother is the most important thing in his life. Perhaps this realization comes too late. But with Gurty\u2019s tragic demise comes a newfound motivation from Mike\u2019s end. As Tantoo later puts it: \u201cGurty died so that the miners would live.\u201d Mike\u2019s love for his brother pushes him toward the selflessness that gives him the final push to save other people\u2019s family members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Mike isn\u2019t the only one whose familial devotion makes him a more equipped rescuer. Tantoo also has high stakes in the matter, as her brother is trapped in the mines. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the two people who survive the mission and prevail over the evil also have strong family connections that, consciously or subconsciously, motivates them the whole way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the surface of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ice Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, though, lies a slightly more sinister message. While the movie\u2019s villains appear to be overly dramatized caricatures of evil, there is actually an air of truth to their characters. Diamond miners are notoriously underpaid, and small-scale diamond miners are often hired without comprehensive training, or even proper mining materials, which makes them much more susceptible to accident, injury, and even death. Sometimes the most terrifying disaster movies are the ones about preventable disasters, and this is certainly the case for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ice Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another pertinent reminder\u00a0<em>The Ice Road<\/em> brings with it, in the end, is how much we love to watch disaster movies as catharsis during times of adversity. During the pandemic, a number of disaster-centered movies topped the box office charts, like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wonder Woman 1984<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla vs. Kong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while the disaster movie <em>Greenland <\/em>was a hit on VOD.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is no secret that people like to have some distraction from less-than-ideal current affairs. And if that includes learning a thing or two about family values \u2014 as well as watching Liam Neeson crawl up the side of a moving ice truck \u2014 then, hey, we\u2019re all about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>The Ice Road is now <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81438065\">streaming on Netflix<\/a>. 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