A character documentary, especially a special character documentary, is like a storybook. Let's have a deep understanding of the protagonist's personal thoughts and climbing experience.
What got me interested first is that when he was cooking he talked about how he was a picky eater when he was a kid, but during his 20-24 years he decided to start eating more vegetables and stopped eating meat about three or four years ago, mainly to protect the environment , but also more recognition of the concept of environmental protection. So his body has maintained various rock climbing sports by not eating meat and exercising for so many years!
The middle part of the film talks about the male protagonist's original family environment. His parents are divorced, and his mother's education is very strict. His favorite words are "almost not good enough", that is, "imperfection is failure" , or "just right is not good enough", leading the male protagonist to think "no matter how good I am, I am not perfect, the bottomless abyss of self-loathing...", which is part of his motivation for unprotected rock climbing. It is conceivable that the environment of the original family has always been the trigger point for children to decide to do something as an adult.
What is happiness? What is happiness? Sense of achievement, degree of completion, the kind of reaching the goal, moving in one direction, doing that thing with conviction, and then the result will follow, trying your best to reach the end, a very beautiful thing that you can do by yourself matter! After the male protagonist reached the top, the music was rendered, the drone flew far away, and the friends on the top congratulated him. The feeling of being happy to be shared is really great!
The experience of the male lead rock climbing reminded me at once that I went to climb the back mountain in Lhasa by myself and took a road that no one else has traveled. I went to record the whole process myself. When I got to the top of the mountain and looked down at the bottom of the mountain, it was really great. I was still making video chats with my friends. Although I didn’t know how to go down the mountain at the time, the experience that day was really like an adventure for me. Many times, impressive days.
Because it is a documentary about living characters, the film uses the most intuitive and closest lens to capture the most real life pictures. If you are interested in wild rock climbing and attitude towards life, this film is about challenging life and taking into account the reasons for the unpopular and anti-popular. Documentary films of characters and events that cannot be alternative projects are still worth watching.
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