The film involves the deaths of more than a dozen people. Some are frightened, some are at a loss, some are calm, and some are wise. The attitude towards death determines the meaning of people, and the nobility and humiliation are undoubtedly revealed in front of death.
As the saying goes: Death is the fairest, princes and common people will die, the nobles and ordinary people in their lives will return to the dust after death.
Then, everyone’s attitude towards death is worthy of fun; the heroes in the film include the protagonist’s father and the old mountain guide. They face death and realize their highest value in death;
other individuals are also different, for example, The plot of the Muslims in the rescue team praying on the snow-capped mountains is a reassurance for people by religion, and it also affects their companions. The last two were instantly taken away from their lives in joy and unawareness; the others are different and will not be repeated.
At the end of the film, the Mani pile with many pictures of mountain victims, symbolizing that K2 (including other mountains) is like a mirror, reflecting the soul of the climber-what do you do for it? What has been achieved? Is it calm?
Mallory’s famous saying "because the mountain is there" is said to be an impatient answer when many reporters are entangled, and the thousands of words of climbers, perhaps only Mani, who exists as a tombstone, is piled up in speechless narration...
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