《众神与将军》(Gods and Generals)名为《葛底士堡》的续集,其实是一部前传,算是赶了当今前传续拍的潮流。本片几乎完全由《葛底士堡》原班人马演出,只不过扮演传奇李将军的,已由马丁·辛改为另一奥斯卡级的老演员罗伯特杜瓦尔担任,而导演、摄影等幕后人员则基本不变,因而可以推断是和《葛底士堡》同一风格的。
既然是前传,讲述的自然是发生在葛底士堡战役前的南北战争的故事。按照导演兼编剧罗纳德·麦克斯韦尔一贯的风格,少不了对这开始两年的著名战役作一番详尽描述。因此,为了更好地了解剧情,我们也有必要对这些战役作一些勾勒。
美国内战的第一场主要战斗发生在弗吉尼亚的曼萨斯,因而这场战斗经常被历史学家们称为"曼萨斯第一之战"。从整个内战的尺度来衡量,这第一场主要战斗都比较小儿科,双方似乎是在试探对方的实力,因此没有投入很多兵力。当时北...
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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.