公元前73年,来自古罗马利比亚省的奴隶斯巴达克斯(柯克•道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰)在加普亚格斗学校中爱上了女奴瓦瑞妮娅(琼•西蒙斯 Jean Simmons 饰)。同年,格斗学校的奴隶在斯巴达克斯带领下发动起义,获得自由,随后斯巴达克斯与瓦瑞妮娅团聚,结为夫妇。起义震惊了罗马的统治集团,激化了元老院中贵族派和平民派的矛盾。贵族将领克拉苏(劳伦斯•奥利维尔 Laurence Olivier 饰)乘机击败平民派首领格拉古(查尔斯•劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰),篡夺了首席执政官的权力,实行独裁。格拉古为了打击克拉苏,打算私下放走奴隶大军;克拉苏却重金收买了海盗,并召回在国外作战的两支大军。斯巴达克斯起义军三面受敌,寡不抵众,数万奴隶战死,他与妻子和六千幸存战友均被克拉苏所俘。在最后的关头,由于格拉古的帮助,情况又发生了变化。
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In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk. But compelled, he was. He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked an...
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In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk.
But compelled, he was.
He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked any meaningful cartilage, a blister the sight of which would make a grown man weep, and shin-soreness that felt like his lower limb had been split with a mountain axe wielded by a demented troll.
Arriving at the end of the Camino, the majestic cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, he expected an epiphany – an answer to the question he’d been asking himself every day: Why am I doing this?
But no answer came.
So when he got home he wrote a book, hoping the answer would reveal itself in his scribblings. The result was The Way, My Way, a humourous and self-deprecating book that many consider the best memoir ever written on walking the Camino.
The book has now been made into a film, and it’s an extraordinary account of a man at a pivotal point in his life, searching for meaning and finding himself undergoing a fundamental transformation so profound that he now divides his life into “Before the Camino” and “After the Camino.”
It’s a story particular to one man, yet of appeal to anyone seeking a greater meaning from life.