《卡特教练》又名《铁血教练 》、《放牛班的严冬》,根据高中篮球队教练肯·卡特的真实故事改编而成。
里士满高中篮球队原本从未在任何比赛中获胜过,是一支屡败屡战的队伍,这一切在卡特教练(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)执教之后发生了变化。他相信这支队伍在他的带领下可以成为最优秀的篮球队,所以他要求队员和他签订一个协议,约定如果队伍不团结或是成绩不佳就不再继续参加任何比赛。在他的带领下,这支队伍开始走上了上坡路,最后成为无人能敌的长胜王。但是在1999年举行的国家锦标赛上,队员们的表现却十分不尽人意,这让卡特教练沮丧不已,他真的关闭了训练馆,禁止队伍继续参加任何比赛。此举引起了极大的反响,他一时成了大众议论的焦点,有人赞赏他视篮球为生命的品格,但更多的人对他的举动表示不解,甚至是批评。
Fleeing from their violent father, siblings Lucía and Adrián take refuge in a remote mansion. With the help of a hidden micro-camera on a cat, Lucía uncovers a terrifying secret: their neighbors are part of a criminal network that kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films, and they intend to get rid of the siblings. As Lucía fights to protect her brother, she must face a dark family curse that follows them into their newfound sanctuary.
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.