在美国职业棒球大联盟MLB中,比利(布拉德•皮特 Brad Pitt 饰)所属的奥克兰运动家队败给了财大气粗的纽约扬基队,这让他深受打击。雪上加霜的是三名主力纷纷被重金挖走,未来的赛季前途渺茫。在管理层会议上,大家一头雾水,只有他暗下决心改造球队。一次偶然的机会,他认识了耶鲁大学经济学硕士彼得(乔纳•希尔 Jonah Hill 饰),两者对于球队运营的理念不谋而合。凭借直觉和经验,他仿佛找到了破解金元棒球的钥匙。他聘请彼得作为自己的顾问,一起研究如何打造最高胜率的球队。他们用数学建模的方式,逐渐开始挖掘上垒率的潜在明星,并通过软磨硬泡将他们招致麾下。他们不在乎高层的冷嘲热讽,只是专心地为球队寻找信心和实力的根源,终于新的赛季开始了……
影片改编自迈克尔•刘易斯的《魔球—逆境中致胜的智慧》(Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game)。
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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.