"North Wall": Watching Lovers Die Slowly

Roel 2022-03-23 09:03:06

The loved one is just a few meters away, but it is like a thousand miles away, and there is nothing I can do; watching my lover slowly die in pain is heartbreaking.

Mountaineering is an extremely dangerous and exciting sport. I don't know how many people died in the process of climbing, but more people went to the top to challenge themselves. It is a symbol of human beings who are not afraid of difficulties and conquer nature. When you climbed to the top of the mountain, you can see the small mountains and the feeling is hard to say; when you look down, you will forget everything and enjoy it. I still remember the feeling of standing on the golden top of Mount Emei and looking around, which is really not an ordinary sense of satisfaction.

Although the protagonist of the story is actually one of the people who fell from the mountain, and the love scenes in the film cannot be verified, the shock of the film is beyond the past. All the dangers of the entire climbing process are displayed one by one. The top is the unreachable peak, and the bottom is the abyss. To climb on such a cliff is to hang by a thread. The two Germans had the opportunity to reach the top and become the first person, but when other people's lives were in danger, they resolutely gave up continuing to climb and chose to save people. Quite a regrettable and sad ending. It is difficult to say that without this choice, they would have survived, but success should not be based on indifference to life, respect for life is to respect yourself.

On a huge mountain, people seem so insignificant, avalanches, rockfalls, and blizzards can easily make a life disappear. Throughout the climbing process, there is always a sense of despair, because there are too many dangers, and any small omission can cause irreversible consequences. It is true that we cannot live without human will and energy. There are no solutions to some perilous situations. Apart from dying slowly, there can be no miracles. But this is what attracts climbers, that is, to face difficulties and challenge the limit, and the great satisfaction after success always leads their actions.

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Extended Reading
  • Christiana 2022-04-23 07:03:57

    Life is for the courageous who defy the norm and attempt the extraordinary and in the process they become legends commanding recognition for their bravery

  • Rosanna 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Honor, responsibility, strength, morality; nothing to do with the Nazis, just the cruelty of movement and nature.

North Face quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in German, quoting English subtitles]

    Luise Fellner: [voiceover] When you're at the bottom - Toni once told me - at the foot of the wall, and you look up, you ask yourself: How can anyone climb that? Why would anyone even want to? But hours later when you're at the top looking down, you've forgotten everything. Except the one person you promised you would come back to.

  • [last lines]

    [in German, quoting English subtitles]

    Luise Fellner: [voiceover] All I know is that death spared me, and that Toni went away forever that day. One has lived if one has loved. There are times when I find this infinitely hard to believe. Most days I feel that I am alive. And that love is the reason for that.