根据Howard Buten的(法国版)小说When I Was Five I Killed Myself(该书中文版
http://book.douban.com/subject/6759296/
)改编的法国电视电影。背景为上个世纪50年代的法国,故事主要发生在一家儿童精神病院。
电影忠于原著,采用小男孩吉尔的口吻讲述了一个不为大人理解的故事。
"我喜欢的女孩,杰西卡,因为父亲去世而伤心哭了。我想安慰她,但是她说,她不想再当小孩,所以我们做了那件事。因为这样,他们说我伤害杰西卡,害她住进医院,就把我送进托管中心关起来。
在禁闭室里,没有窗,没有床,没有玩具,只有四面白色的墙壁。我只能用这枝偷偷捡来的笔,在墙上写下我的故事:五岁时,我杀我了自己……"
原著小说是作家霍华德.布登营销世界30年的畅销之作。他藉由男孩波登,描绘出一个不被理解的孤独心灵,是如何在一个与他格格不入的世界中生存。这其中,波登的单纯与大人世界的复杂形成强烈的对比,他无力摆脱身边那些讨厌的大人的处境,很容易让人联想到法国经典名著《小王子》;而波登被视为超越常规、不被理解的困顿,以及对成人世界的不知所措,亦常被引比为《麦田守望者》的霍尔顿。
这部小说在法国出版时,立即引起惊人的回响,除了被法国读者拿来与《小王子》相提并论,更推崇它是法语版的《麦田守望者》。30年来,它吸引了各个年龄层的读者,甚至拥有"每十个法国人,就有一人读过"的美誉,这一轰动现象,是法语书籍中少有能及。
有评论说,这本书能有既畅销又长销的成绩,是波登这个男孩太让人心疼难忘,作者的说故事手法太特别。但我们或许可以说,这是因为波登让人想起了那个仍旧躲藏在童年里、曾经不被理解和接纳的自己,也发现我们想要的,其实只是在这世界里,找到一个属于自己的地方。
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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.