伯迪(马修·莫迪恩 Matthew Modine 饰)是个从小活在幻想中的孩子,他一直向往鸟的生活,羡慕他们有翅膀可以飞翔,自己也兴致勃勃地动手制作翅膀,幻想有朝一日飞上天空。越战爆发打断少年美梦。战场上残忍的一幕幕让内心脆弱的伯迪受到极大刺激,终于失去理智,成为现实意义中的“精神病人”,被送进医院。在医院里,他从不说话,每天以鸟的姿态蹲着,以鸟的方式吃东西,在牢笼里望着一方小小的蓝天向往飞翔。为了治疗伯迪,医院找来他的儿时好友艾尔(尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰),希望他能引导伯迪重新和人交流。艾尔用大量共同回忆开启伯迪的心智,也认识到对伯迪来说只有飞翔的梦想是永恒的……
本片根据威廉 ·霍顿发表于1978年的小说改编而成,曾获戛纳电影节评委会大奖。
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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.