It's a very good documentary, it is indeed more meaningful than the one made by free solo, the second half is really tearful.
When I watched free solo, I kept thinking about whether the protagonist could complete the rock climbing alive, because he was concerned about the final result, similar to whether the heart-wrenching hero in the action movie can finally fight back, defeat the villain, and win a big victory, and meru saw the second half. Cheng, in fact, is not about rock climbing anymore, it is about how people overcome themselves. What we see in it is not the success of rock climbing, but the courage of people to stand up and never be defeated in the face of all kinds of impermanence and blows of fate, which is similar to Hemingway's "A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." "The same spirit.
Each of the three people who reached the top has experienced major setbacks in body, life and emotion, and they still move forward, move forward, and move forward with scars until they finally fulfill their dreams. This is almost anyone who is unwilling to be easily defeated. A person's life experiences metaphor.
When I saw that they worked so hard in the end and went up with so much pain, I also had huge questions in my heart, why did they do this, why did they have to spend so much money? The cost of climbing up? However, after thinking about it, isn't our life like rock climbing like this? Living itself is a practice, facing the wind and snow and the pain of the body, being knocked down again and again and going up again and again, life itself, if Really jumping out to see, for everyone, isn't it just hard work to climb a peak that seems impossible to climb? Can you answer what, why you must live, why you must live without giving up on yourself, you can't answer.
I watched the free solo on weekends, alone on a cliff and climbing Mount Meru. The profound feeling is that the experience of rock climbing and life itself is the same, whether it is to maintain focus and purity, or to repair oneself and move forward after breaking again and again, it is the same. the truth. What they do is not a certain sport, but live the life itself. It can also be said that our ordinary daily life is to complete the rock climbing again and again.
Climbing is a metaphor for life, which embodies the emotions and experiences that we all experience in our lives. Facing fear, facing obsession, facing loneliness, facing pain, and moving forward with a heavy burden are also inevitable topics in each of our lives.
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