5 Feet of Fury

Rick McGinnis: ‘The Way’ is pro-life, pro-people

Rick McGinnis reviews The Way:

Some viewers might find its grudging, hard-fought amiability a bit wet for their tastes, but it does make room for both poles of the experience of forced companionship in trying circumstances.

One, as expressed by the British pop band Depeche Mode a generation ago, wonders that, if people are people, why should it be that we should get along so awfully.

Perhaps it’s only the creaking rhyme that makes this sentiment seem trite but it has the virtue of being true, up to 50 per cent of the time.