1865年,持续四年的美国内战进入了尾声,亚伯拉罕·林肯总统(丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰)也迎来了他的第二个任期。在生命和任期的最后四个月,林肯一直在致力于一场比内战还艰苦的战役:推动宪法第13修正案在国会的通过。该法案将从法理上永久废除奴隶制在美国的存在。然而修正案提出的时机异常糟糕:废奴思想缺少人民的响应;国会为保守势力把持;支持废奴的激进派也不满林肯的作风。当分裂出去的南部州表达了重回谈判桌和终结内战的意愿后,林肯发现他面临一个两难的痛苦决定:是获得妥协的和平,还是坚守内心的道德?是结束奴隶制,还是结束战争?
“假如奴隶制不是错误,那就没有对的了。”根据历史著作《对手的团队:林肯的政治智慧》改编,由普利策奖得主托尼·库什纳执笔,奥斯卡导演史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格执导,两届影帝丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯主演的传记大片《林肯》引领观众走近林肯一生中最伟大的成就:废除奴隶制。电影中的林肯是充满灵活智慧的政治家,也是运筹帷幄的三军统帅;是痛失爱子的慈父,也是心怀内疚的丈夫。当他的国家处在最迷惘的一刻时,林肯以超人的远见将目光及于战争之外,把全部心血投入到改变一个国家前进方向的伟大博弈中。他想说服美国人民:当不同肤色的人抬头仰望,看到的将是同一片星空。
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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.