八十年代的恐怖电影《处刑在午夜》(10 to Midnight)中,外表不佳却颇具性格气概的老电影人查尔斯·布朗森在片中饰演一个警探,逮捕到一位专门辣手摧花的杀人犯,苦于没有证据,老查不得已设法编造证据,想送他进大牢,不料被穿帮,凶手放出来后,决定对老查的女儿下手以实行报复。为什么老查根本找不到凶手的罪证呢,原来凶手每次行凶前必把自己的衣服脱光,你想找到任何沾有血迹的衣服、裤子、鞋子,都难如登天。于是,反一号男主角吉恩·戴维斯在片中有一半的戏份都要光着身子。《处刑在午夜》在裸露尺度的把握上,真正做到了“男女平等”,你脱我也脱,像吉恩·戴维斯这种可以走偶像路线的男星,接拍《处刑在午夜》实在得不偿失,别说必须时不时的衣不蔽体,角色形象也负面到极点,从片子的票房来看,他也真是白忙了一场。可能从一开始,吸引他的只是赫赫有名的曾导过黑白原版《恐怖角》(Cape Fear)与《纳瓦隆大炮》(The Guns of Navarone)的大导演J·李·汤普森吧,可惜人有失手马有失蹄,这一回他可是脱得很没价值呐!
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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.