A few days ago, the computer was damaged, and many drafts on the desktop were lost. I was worried that the materials on the hard disk would also be lost. And at this time, I thought about a question: If you put aside the accumulated notes and photos for a long time, as a person with poor memory like me, what is left.
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"Pilgrimage Road" | From this road film, I saw Iron Man's mental journey
This problem is also reflected in "Iron Man 3": the villain is a human after alienation, and the decency is Tony Stark of the props flow. This fight also gave Stark a reflection, whether he took off his suit, or was he Iron Man.
Rather than rushing to give myself a conclusion, I chose to re-read "The Pilgrimage Road", and followed the protagonist on that long journey to find the answer slowly.
What is the pilgrimage route
The film "The Pilgrimage" is a full ten years ago. Before the movie, dating back to the Middle Ages, Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, because it was the burial place of the first martyr among the twelve disciples of Jesus, James the Great, became the second largest city after Jerusalem and Rome. Another place of pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage route generally refers to the long journey from France to this place. And now, regardless of whether they are believers or not, they will choose to embark on this path to cleanse their hearts. The son of Old Tom in the movie is one of them.
why did you embark on the journey
The reason for the movie is that Old Tom is helpless in the face of his son who lives in the moment. Until his son died in the Pyrenees (the only way to go on the pilgrimage), he decided to see the journey his son longed for before his death. At the time, he didn't know what he wanted.
Not only the starting point, but Old Tom's ignorance of the journey is also reflected in his journey. I guess he probably wouldn't have made it to the finish line if he hadn't supported each other with a few traveling companions. Just like a lot of people who do something for a reason that they can't even explain themselves, they will soon give up halfway through.
Except for Old Tom, every one of his traveling companions has a clear purpose: a fat man who is divorced, who uses the pilgrimage to lose weight; Sarah, who is suffering from domestic violence, wants to quit smoking; Jack, who is swinging between the dream of a writer and a writer , draw inspiration from novels on the go. And they have a clear purpose, what is the result?
Our goal, remember?
On the contrary, after the pilgrimage, the purpose of each of them has not been achieved . The one closest to the goal is none other than Jack. Copying and writing along the way, he may have accumulated a lot of material and inspiration, but in the end, he still accepted the identity of the writer.
On the other hand, the fat man is more interesting. He started on the road in the name of losing weight, but he was the person who knew the best food along the way. One night near the finish line, in the mirror, he seemed to gain weight instead. But it doesn't matter, just like we made fun of Zhu Bajie, he was a vegetarian all the way, and he didn't lose weight when he traveled to the west, and that didn't stop him from becoming an "envoy of the altar".
Sarah's ending speech was humorous, as if she lost her memory and did not acknowledge the purpose of quitting smoking. However, even with a cigarette in his mouth, he did not delay the journey of thousands of kilometers. And the haze brought by marriage, perhaps in the church bells, the smoke will disappear.
The most important thing is Old Tom, when the ashes were scattered into the sea, he reconciled with himself and his son. In fact, he was a person who had no purpose from the beginning, throwing his ashes, but also when he met a gypsy, he established his goal even more. As for what his inner reconciliation is, the film does not express it concretely, which also makes many people have their own understanding.
You worship the Father, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem
The real pilgrimage does not lie in a certain road, not in a certain church, but a gradual and clear mental journey. The pilgrimage road is not a place for Internet celebrities to take photos and punch cards, nor is it a talk about bragging about X after drinking, but a self-identification after vicissitudes of life.
At the beginning of the book, Tony Stark's growth is also a self-identification. It is me who invented the armor, and it is still me who wears the armor. Putting aside the armor itself is a paradox. That's why he said at the end of the Avengers: I am Iron Man. Perhaps not only echoes his first appearance, but also answers the questions of his comrade-in-arms Team America in the first reunion.
Just like the sentence left by old Tom's son, it can be understood as: You don't need to choose life, you already live in it. A lot of times, don't show off glory, don't hide pain, don't try too hard, don't indulge with guilt. Putting aside a lot of deliberateness, it may be closer to your original intention.
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