Tom is an American dentist with a good life, but his wife died early. He hopes that his only son can make a good life plan like him, and then choose a stable life path and live a middle-class life.
But the son was reluctant to live such a life. He told his father that he had given up his plan to study for a doctorate. He planned to take a trip to France to reflect on the meaning of life and the value of life.
On the way when the father took his son to the airport, the two held their own opinions and couldn't understand each other's life.
This may be the portrayal of the vast majority of father-son relationships in the world, love and kill each other.
They don't care very much about this kind of difference, and they don't care very much about each other's incomprehension. Maybe they are thinking: Anyway, you will understand sooner or later.
It's a pity that none of them would have thought that this parting is a permanent formula.
Why do we never cherish the days together? Why is it always painful until they lose each other?
A few days later, while his father was playing golf, he received a call from the French police that his son had been killed in an accident on the road.
It turned out that when my son went to France, he had to take a pilgrimage on foot. The starting point of this road is in the south of France, winding for 800 kilometers, and the end point is Santiago, Spain, one of the three holy cities of Christianity, where Jacob, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, was buried. It's called the "Santiago Pilgrimage Route".
With grief, Tom travels to France to dispose of his son's body and belongings.
The son died in the Pyrenees on the first day of his hike, but unfortunately suffered an accident due to a storm.
Tom looked at his son's luggage, and his grief came from it. After a sleepless night, he decided to take his son's ashes and walk the road that his son did not finish.
At this time, the film did not explain too much about Tom's original intention. Maybe there is guilt, there is redemption, maybe he wants to satisfy his son's last wish, maybe he wants to find out why his son is going this way, maybe he thinks he can only walk in this way On the way, I can have the last conversation with my son.
Such a walking tour is of course very difficult, but he ignored the reminders and objections of the people around him, put on his son's outdoor equipment, carried his son's luggage and ashes, and followed his son's route map, resolutely set out on the road. Everywhere, the ashes of his son were laid down, and the sad expression was unbearable to witness.
On the way, Tom met three walking pilgrims from different countries: a fat Dutch man who vowed to lose weight, a decadent female smoker who vowed to quit smoking, and an English writer who was looking for inspiration for writing. They were all dissatisfied with themselves and the world. .
They walk all the way, with different concepts, and there will naturally be embarrassing things on the way. And behind all the embarrassing incidents, there is the same question: Who am I and why did I come?
Can losing weight make my family happy? Can quitting smoking cheer me up? Can hiking bring me back to writing inspiration?
They kept looking for answers, and the answer seemed to be no.
Essentially, they are both searching for meaning in life.
They endow the walking with a sense of ritual, hoping that through the pilgrimage road, they can listen to the voice of God, obtain the will of the gods, and obtain spiritual comfort.
Their final journey reached their destination, the Cathedral of de Compostela in Santiago.
And they finally realize that it is not any gods who can answer their perplexities, but themselves.
Only by accepting oneself and understanding others can we reconcile with the world and finally reconcile with ourselves.
At the end of the journey, Tom was at the seaside, looking at the exciting and mysterious sea, and sprinkled the last pinch of his son's ashes into the waves. At that moment, he seemed to finally understand his son: life, be true to your heart.
The story ends here. As a work of art, it has also completed its due sublimation at the end. It seems that there is no regret in everything.
It's just that I still can't let go. In reality, an old man can really cure the pain of losing a child? Is it really possible to die alone in this way? Can not help but sigh in the prologue.
Time goes by, years are ruthless, let us spend as much time as possible with our parents and children in our lifetime!
After all, they say, the most affectionate confession is company.
[The text is the original Five of Hearts, and the pictures are from the Internet, infringed and deleted. Thank you for your attention, welcome to communicate?]
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