The pace of modern society is tense, and everyone is more or less under pressure. Maybe we have clear goals and plans, but we also get confused from time to time. Today, I want to share with you the biographical drama "Into the Wild" by Canadian director Jean-Marc Valet, in which the heroine leaves her chaotic life and embarks on a solo 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Roof Trail. It was a difficult journey along the way, but she found herself and regained her love for life.
Can women travel alone?
The heroine Cheryl is a woman in her 20s. When she graduated from college, her mother who gave her selfless love since childhood died of illness. She was in grief, unable to live seriously, and began to give up on herself. The graduation thesis was not completed, the marriage broke down, and I lived in a hurry.
In this way, she just passed the bookstore and saw a book about the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT for short), and decided on this hiking trip.
The film is adapted from the memoir "Out of the Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" (Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail). Hiking is an impossible task for most of us.
And Cheryl, who had no experience with hiking, didn't even know she was the first woman to hike the PCT. She didn't even know what to bring, and ended up carrying a huge bag, and passersby laughed at her for carrying a "monster".
Cheryl herself was full of uncertainty, and many people questioned her along the way.
For the first time, she met a man and hitched a ride with him. He asked, "Have you ever thought about giving up?" Cheryl replied, "Of course, it's only a few minutes at a time." When the man was getting old, he said that he always chose to give up at the three forks in his life. Marriage, quit work, and the first day of hiking.
On the trail, she met other hikers. Greg, a sturdy man with twice as much daily travel as Cheryl, told Cheryl that there would be a blizzard on one of the mountains they were going to climb, persuading her to take a detour or give up, "In my opinion, you've Great."
On the highway, Cheryl wanted to hitch a ride to the next section of the trail, but she passed a reporter who claimed to be from "The Homeless". He said that he hadn't seen a female tramp in several years, and asked all sorts of curious questions.
"Maybe it's because women can't get out of their life circle. They have to take care of their children and their parents." Cheryl replied to the reporter.
On the 49th day of the trip, a woman later brought news. It turned out that Greg, who persuaded Cheryl to give up hiking, gave up the hike first, "He can't handle the snow mountain, and he plans to come back next year."
"Greg gave up, but I'm still here." Cheryl sighed.
The hardships in the wild, the harassment of strangers, and the long journey, Cheryl did not give up halfway. She didn't listen to the evaluation of the outside world, she just wanted to work hard to overcome herself, heal herself, and redeem herself. She didn't feel that she was better than men, nor did she feel inferior to men, she just embarked on a journey according to her own ideas.
Confront your inner predicament
Can walking achieve self-salvation? Many will question the connection.
Cheryl, who is hiking every day, began to recall her interests in life on the fifth day, "like sitting on the toilet, like cooking, like talking to people". If it weren't for her travels, she would never have realized that she had such a hobby.
Most importantly, in the process of walking alone, she began to reflect on her life and relationships, and face her inner self.
Before setting foot on the trail, Cheryl had a happy marriage and was very affectionate with her husband. The two planned to finish graduate courses together.
During the walk, Cheryl recalled the good times with her husband, who still cared and helped her when she was falling, while she was cold; recalling the scene of their divorce and getting tattoos together to say goodbye.
Cheryl also recalls her dead mother, a tragic but independent and strong woman. At that time, Cheryl's father was alcoholic, domestic violence her mother, and even beat the child, it was the mother who led her and her brother to escape. In the days to come, despite her poverty, her mother was still optimistic. When Cheryl was an undergraduate, she also attended the same school as her daughter.
Cheryl recalled that she and her mother studied together, met her at school, and she snubbed her; her mother shared a writer she admired, but she looked down on that writer; her mother sang while doing housework, she angrily condemned her mother, and she married obviously An alcoholic, heavily in debt, has nothing to be happy about.
"The only thing I can teach you is how to find a better version of yourself, and when you find it, how to hold on to it desperately." "There are worse things than today, you can let 'them' kill you, but , I want to live, I want to live." In the past, Cheryl would only mock her mother, but now she thinks of her mother's advice to her. She finally understood her mother and found her greatness. It is also the mother's words, supporting her to continue to go down.
On every beach she passed, she wrote her husband's name in sand, thanking, missing and forgetting him. She began to read her mother's favorite books, remembering how optimistic and loving her mother was.
Maybe everyone has such a time when they don't have the opportunity to see themselves clearly and discover their truest feelings. Whether it is the contest with life, the understanding of intimacy, or the ideal of self-life, there is confusion.
Cheryl saw her past self clearly, saw her inner self clearly, and understood her own problems during this trip that was only her own. She didn't blame her past self too much, she just faced, understood, and let go.
out of the wilderness of life
On the 80th day of the trip, it was raining and Cheryl met a little friend and his grandma on a path in the forest. Talking to the child, she naturally said "I have some problems with my father" and the reality of "my mother died of a serious illness". "Problems will always be solved, they will become something else," she told the child.
"There is no way of knowing why things happened or didn't happen, what caused what, what destroyed what, what caused what to thrive, or die, or choose another path."
After hiking for three months and 94 days, Cheryl walked out of the wilderness and came to the "Bridge of the Gods". No longer indulging in the grief of her mother's death, and no longer indulging in her own life, at this moment, she shook hands with the past and made peace, and she could finally start a new life.
"I believe I don't need to catch all of this with my bare hands anymore. It's enough to see the fish swimming down and down the water because that's all, this is my life. Like all life, mysterious, sacred and precious . This is my life, so close to me, so real, and so exclusive to me. Maybe it's the craziest thing to do."
On a solo trip, Cheryl really moves inward. Growing up, she found that she had avoided herself for too long and was always relying on the fragile outside world to support herself. This time, she woke up inside and began to let herself face her life.
Maybe in the future, we will still be ordinary, but we will live well with our true selves.
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