I like to watch hiking-themed movies. On the one hand, I like hiking. On the other hand, this kind of life that leaves a period of time to nature is very attractive to me, and I can feel the passion and purity of human hearts. Most of the walking movies are about saying goodbye to the past, and the pilgrimage road is no exception. It is a very healing movie. Because of an accident, the father took the son's unfinished 800-kilometer hiking trip instead of his son. On the way, he re-understood and got to know his estranged son.
Most of the hiking-themed movies I have watched before are basically based on the three major hiking routes in the United States. Compared with those thousands of kilometers of hiking trails, the Camino de Santiago is shorter, and the whole section is relatively flat. There are many historical towns and places that provide food and lodging for hikers. Although there is less conquest of nature and challenges to human limits, this pilgrimage road also has a lot of humanistic flavor.
Every time I watch a similar movie, I am very interested in the transformation of the protagonist's mind, and in the end, I am moved by the reconciliation between the protagonist and his heart and the beginning of a new life. The father in the movie was still immersed in his own thoughts at first, and he was reluctant to share too much even when he met his enthusiastic companions. Later, he was really presumptuous because of a drunken time. From the beginning, he walked forward with no expression on his face, to chatting and laughing with his companions. Towards the end of the trip, the father took three other people to a luxury hotel, each with a very comfortable room of their own. But it may be because they fell in love with each other's company, or it may be because they are reluctant to part with each other. The four of them finally squeezed into a room and laughed together. This scene is particularly warm.
The father finally completed the walking tour on behalf of his son, and may have truly understood his son's inner yearning, and began to set foot on the destinations that his son had mentioned one by one. The man has passed away, and the father and son cannot reconcile face to face, but the father chose another way to enter the son's spiritual world and communicate with his son. Although it is a pity, it can also fill in the gaps in the previous years.
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