Americans actually like to shoot just the right coincidences and happy endings; there's an optimistic emotional core to their culture.
I have seen many movies on the road. Over the years, I often think of "Into the Wilderness" and "The Pilgrimage Road" in times of adversity. About inner-level needs, about emotional fragmentation and fault. And our film is still in the stage of showing off, far from reaching the level of discussion.
Hiking, aside from equipment and routes, is nothing more than an act of walking without stopping. The rucksack on your back is your most loyal friend. The road is long, does the destination matter? Of course it matters, it's your only hope when your feet are blisters, your face is sunburned, and you're exhausted.
I think that when people walk, they can have high-quality alone time, many questions will surface, and many answers will be revealed. When you look at the vast mountains, lush forests, vast sky and irresistible crosswinds from a distance, you can realize that life is short.
In the clip, Tom lost his son in his later years. He went to France to retrieve his son’s ashes and relics. The scene of seeing off his son Daniel kept flashing in his mind. road? What is the meaning of hiking? He didn't understand, he only knew that this road took his son.
You don't go around in the civilized world, you must live a hippie life, which is originally an escape in Tom's eyes.
The pilgrimage route to Santiago, in the 1st century AD, one of Jesus' twelve disciples, Saint James (Saint Jacque in French, Santiago in Spanish), was martyred in Jerusalem after preaching in Spain for seven years. It was transported back to Spain and buried in Santiago, where it disappeared into oblivion. In the 9th century, the tomb of St. James was miraculously discovered by chance, and subsequently attracted a flood of pilgrims. Gradually, pilgrims from different parts of Europe formed a complex network of routes known as the Way of St. James.
Sometimes people walk because of religion, sometimes people walk because of faith, and more people walk because they are lost.
The four people in the play make me feel that this kind of character setting simply hides some kind of metaphor. A fat man who wants to lose weight, a writer who is almost insane, a maverick woman, and a mute Tom.
I think "The Pilgrimage" is more simple than "Into the Wild" to a certain extent. There are not so many catastrophes as the background of life. The one who started walking was a father. At the end, it is a person's independent walk.
This is almost the whole meaning of walking. No matter what your original intention is, you can always find your own beliefs in this long journey. It has nothing to do with religion, but just gives you an anchor to let you live in the vast world. , knowing which latitude and longitude to change from, to see this colorful world, it even gives you the bottom line and the way back.
To all who want and are already on the way, you deserve this movie.
Good night.
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