At the beginning of the film, the subtitles were printed: "Aboriginal people and Torres Island audiences should watch carefully, because the film may contain images and sounds of deceased people." This makes the audience more adventurous films adapted from real people. A sense of mystery. The heroine's name is Robin Davidson: the name is very man, I believe her personality is also very man, she once said: nomads are home or nowhere but she belongs to the latter. Then why does she say that she "has nowhere to be home"? This has to start with her life experience.
When Robin was six years old, her mother unfortunately committed suicide. Her father did not assume the obligation to take care of her. Instead, he sent her to foster care with her aunt. The saddest thing for her was that she had to be with her since she was a child. A big dog was helplessly separated, and could not meet again. So Robin's happiness in his aunt's house? She didn't mention a word in the film, she must be unhappy.
I have feelings about the life under the fence. I came to Shanghai from another place and lived with my grandparents and my uncle. I lived in the attic, which was a burden for them. Dad is the eldest son and I am the only granddaughter. I can’t refuse, because my grandfather sold the house promised to Dad at the time and lost the stock exchange. It doesn't matter if they ignore me or lack warmth. Fortunately, grandparents and grandparents have only been with me for five years, but the aunt has never said more than fifty sentences. The cruelest violence is taciturn cold violence!
Fortunately, I was lucky. I got a promotion and a salary increase soon after working. At that time, my uncle’s family gave my grandma a monthly meal of 300 yuan, and I offered to bring a lunch meal, so I also paid 300 yuan. From then on Their attitude towards me has changed and life has become better. And the heroine did not have a stable job as expected, and people who are not financially independent will never be able to be independent, and it is inevitable that they will survive by looking at the faces of others.
In the film, the father left his daughter and went on an expedition. He crossed the Kalahari Desert in 1935 and crossed East Africa when he was young. He believes that crossing the jungle alone is the happiest moment. In 1948, his father took seven horses and twenty donkeys across Australia from east to west. This is also a deep memory for the young Robin, and he sincerely admires him!
That's why in 1977, 27-year-old Robin Davidson alone took four camels (named: Duke, Gbagbo, Zalika and his child Goliya) and a black medium-sized dog: Dickiti, The trek 1700 miles (approximately 2736 kilometers), starting from Alice Springs in central Australia, took 195 days to reach the Indian Ocean and successfully traversed the western desert of Australia. Robin's epic trip was successfully recorded by the photographer Rick Smallan of National Geographic, and it became a sensation at the time.
This is not to say that it is a walk-and-go trip, but after two years of full preparation: first, she must learn wild survival skills, work in a hotel to earn money to buy camels, and learn how to domesticate camels. In the process, she barefoot every day, and her feet have cocoons. . The place where I work is a barren town. The relationship between white people and indigenous people is very tense, and women have no say in them. They must be very careful to get along with the indigenous people and male alcoholics. An employer initially agreed to pay her four camels for work in eight months, but he did not keep his promise, and the hostess had to find another employer.
This time, the boss was better than the previous ones and gave her a spear to protect herself when she encountered a red-brown wild camel attacking. This was the only weapon on the way afterwards. Two ferocious wild camels were killed to rescue during a crisis. Killed the heroine's life. Without this gun, the consequences would be unimaginable! There is certainly no best-selling novel "Traces" that the heroine has personally experienced and felt, and there is no such wonderful film "Camel Shadow in the Desert". At the suggestion of some friends, the hostess finally agreed to take pictures of her from National Geographic magazine to obtain funds sponsored by the magazine to complete the journey.
After everything was ready, Robin officially set off on April 9, 1977. After taking some pictures with photographer Rick, they met at the Big Rock a month later. Under the leadership of the loyal partner Black Dog Dijiti, four well-trained camels started a difficult journey. How persevering such a girl is. She proves that "ordinary people are also omnipotent." Yes. From her point of view, I would do the same. If I am helpless in this world, it is better to rely on myself: If I win for my life, maybe it will be successful? What about failure? Work hard, try your best, die without regrets!
During the journey, the camels are responsible for the heavy objects. They bear hardships and stand hard work, and they are calm and composed even in the face of turbulent winds and sands. They are the solid backing of the heroine. The black dog is the hero in the eyes of the heroine. Every time there is an abnormal situation such as strangers, winds, wild animals, etc., it is the first time to call for notification, allowing the heroine to make early judgments and prepare to eliminate many hidden dangers. Another time the hostess returned to find the compass her father gave her. It was not how valuable it was, but it was a gift from her mother to her father. The hostess looked everywhere but finally found her, but lost her way. After walking several places, she couldn’t find the camels. Finally, she said to Dijidi twice: "go home", I only found it after a while. After that, the hostess was so happy that she danced with it and threw a "sandbag".
You know that Digeti is the heroine's darling, she hugs it to sleep every day, but unfortunately, when she accompanied the heroine to about four-fifths of the journey, an accident happened: Digeti accidentally ate it. The poison prepared by others for the wild wolf, when the hostess saw it dying in a pool of blood, she cried bitterly, and finally managed to end her journey.
Robin later turned this experience into a typeface "Trace" in his small apartment in London. After the publication, he received an enthusiastic response and won the first "Thomas Cook Travel Literature Award" in 1980-the award was considered to be the travel literature of the time The Nobel Prize in Literature". Robin sighed: "I never thought I would be a writer in my life, leading such a complicated and ups and downs life."
It is not difficult to see that the reason "Traces" influences and inspires people is that it does not pursue the twists and thrills of the external journey, but has a lot of inner reflection on the lonely journey, gradually knowing oneself, discovering oneself, and accepting oneself. There is a sentence in the book that reads: "I enter a new time, space, and realm. A thousand years of time squeeze into a day, a long time squeeze into every step. The oak tree in the desert is sighing, yes I bent down, as if I wanted to catch me. One after another, the sand dunes were raised and low. The clouds rolled over, rolled over, and there were endless roads, endless roads, endless roads, no way to go. The road to the end."
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