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The reason why I watched it so late is because some friends who have seen it harshly commented: The snow mountain war wolf’s Everest unrequited love makes people sleepy in the cinema.
But after I watched it, I realized that watching a movie is like falling in love. Only after watching it, I know if it suits me.
Now, if I were to recommend a movie that is most suitable for watching at the end of the November holiday, then I would choose this "Climber". There is no other reason for
, just because it captures the greatness of ordinary people and gives you the motivation to welcome the end of the holiday and walk out of your comfort zone.
In the face of fate, we are all dust
Someone once asked me, if a great cause requires you to sacrifice yourself, friends, lover, family, and even everything, would you make a choice without hesitation?
I did not answer him, because I have never thought about such serious questions. Like most people, I believe that I have a high probability of being ordinary in my life, which has nothing to do with magnificent words like "great" and "sacrifice".
But in the lives of ordinary people, there are actually so many decisive moments, so great art has similar themes.
In the famous game "The Last of Us", known as the pinnacle of the ninth art, the virus is raging and humans are on the verge of extinction. The hero Joel escorts the only girl with antibodies, Allie, to an experimental institution thousands of miles away. Find a cure for humans. On the way to
, the two formed a bond similar to the love of father and daughter. At the end of the story, when he learned that saving mankind needs to sacrifice Allie, Joel did not hesitate to shoot all the "scientists" who could save mankind. Take Ellie away from home.
For Joel, how to choose is self-evident. If you lose your love, what is the meaning of a great career?
Shakespeare said that the difference in fate is entirely in the choice.
The moment of decision always makes me feel the impermanence of fate, and "The Climber" really makes me feel the weight of fate.
I’m very thankful that this movie does not only focus on the greatness of the summit of Mount Everest, but uses more pen and ink to describe the fate and choices of the characters. Therefore, I want to talk to you without spoiling the key plot. Talk about the people inside.
1960, the Chinese climbed Mount Everest for the first time. On the way to the summit of
, the climbing team encountered an avalanche. At the moment of the decision, Wu Jing chose to save the photographer Zhang Yi instead of protecting the photographic equipment.
did not have a camera and could not shoot, so the Chinese lost the opportunity to show the evidence of our ascent to Mount Everest to the international community.
Failure and suffering are the greatest sorrows in life, but there is nothing more sorrowful than that, than I have completed the great cause, but no one believes it; I have clearly endured the heavy suffering, but no one can do it I record.
was unable to prove himself. The team of first-generation climbers disbanded on the spot. The people who were supposed to be called heroes became insignificant people in the world. Wu Jing became a boiler worker, and Zhang Yi went back to the training camp at the foot of Mount Everest to do some trivial things. work.
Wu Jing works in a factory and does not forget to practice climbing skills between work, but he has long been forgotten. Even though he is a top-notch climber, in reality he is just a boiler-burning worker.
Zhang Yi records the weather data of Mount Everest day after day, but the next climb is nowhere in sight. His data is nothing but a piece of paper to comfort him. It is just a dream of Lu Sheng and a green light for Gatsby.
Fifteen years is a moment in the movie, but in reality it is a long time.
I cannot imagine how unwilling and guilty Zhang Yi sees Mount Everest every day. I can’t even imagine how Wu Jing’s dream of climbing would torture him when he burned the boiler in the factory day after day. All the pain of
stems from Wu Jing's decision.
has a hundred years of life, and I know how warm and cold I am, but one sentence, do you regret it?
"We are struggling to move forward, the boats are up against the current, and are constantly being pushed back to the past by the waves."
This is fate, and Fitzgerald is not deceived by me.
But fate will sometimes make jokes, and sometimes it will give you a second chance.
Fifteen years later, the country restarted the mountaineering plan. When the news was released, worker Wu Jing was eating noodles in the cafeteria.
is no different from the past. He has just added coal to the boiler. If nothing happens, he will rest for a while after eating and drink some tea.Continue to start that endless life.
But this time, he cried as he ate, and the tears couldn't stop flowing out. The
country has not forgotten the hero. Fate gave him a second chance.
Wu Jing seems to be using his three-pointer acting skills to tell the audience that this is a man's tears, which flow for fate, please accept it.
Wu Jing was in tears, but Zhang Yi didn't have any extra reaction. He waited for Wu Jing's arrival at Everest Base Camp with a look of disgust. After a long absence from
, the brothers met, and there was no joy of reunion after a long absence, but more regret for the past.
Zhang Yi is still worried about why Wu Jing chose to save him back then. The two even fought.
"If you don't save me, there won't be today's things. I should have let me die at that time!"
was speechless for a long time.
Wu Jing asked: "If it were you at the time, would you kill me?"
Zhang Yi's answer is yes. Unlike Wu Jing, he is not an indecisive person. At the moment of making a decision, he must choose a great cause rather than his own children. situation. The values of the two of
are divided here, and their personal destiny is intertwined with the times, which has become the thrilling dark thread of the movie, which can not be calmed for a long time.
This reminds me of a famous quote by Wang Xiaobo, is it worthwhile for a young man to be caught in a torrent to save a telephone pole? To praise this sacrifice, is it a hypocritical sublime?
Time cannot tolerate thinking, ideas are embedded in actions.
1975, the Chinese hit Mount Everest for the second time.
The contradiction between Wu Jing and Zhang Yi finally broke out on the eve of the storm, and the conflict of values came hand-to-hand on the screen, and its excitement was no less than that of a mountain collapse and snow splash.
What is their choice this time?
Who will die, who will stand at the pinnacle, will the great cause be recorded, will the glory of the past be brought up again? If
do it again, "Will you kill me?"
will all be revealed in the cinema.
But I know that in front of cruel fate, individuals are all dust.
scattered and flew, struggling desperately.
Glory belongs to the loser
But in fact, compared to the movie's protagonists Zhang Yi and Wu Jing, the one who impressed me most was the supporting role Hu Ge.
He is not the protagonist, and he has no special skills, but he is the most convincing character.
Hu Ge plays Yang Guang who wants to climb Mount Everest. Even if the doctor has repeatedly warned him that he has a family genetic disease and may die on the road in the middle of the mountain, he is not afraid. When training with
, he was the hardest one, and he was the most determined one when everyone was swaying about whether to climb the mountain.
Why is he so persistent?
because he knows that his family has a genetic disease, but he wants to prove that his body is intact.
Princelin has a lyric called "Do you know how a man who loses his legs dances?"
That is the theme song of the movie "Wrestling King", it tells a wrestler who is dead and still bravely faces life and finally died The story on the wrestling ring.
Movies that express the fate of ordinary people are always in common. Dance without legs. That's what Hu Ge did in The Climber.
If the fate of Wu Jing and Zhang Yi is to choose, then Hu Ge's fate has to be done.
is like Sisyphus pushing the stone day after day, but he is happy. For example, Prometheus endured the pain of a goshawk pecking his liver, but he was glorious. Will
Hu Ge succeed? It doesn't matter, he has succeeded.
Glory belongs to losers because they never give up.
once watched Hu Ge on Weibo and said that when he was invited by the crew, he had only left the machine for half a month, so he resolutely turned down other jobs and took the play. There is no reason for
, just because he was a climber.
It was on the Qizi Snow Peak of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. At an altitude of 4900, Hu Ge saw a stone tablet with the words "Keep walking". It was the last words of the unfortunate victims in the process of descending the mountain. People in order to commemorate the victims. , They carved their words on the stone. The last words of
the loser made Hu Ge sigh, and he also put his life experience into character shaping.
is only three words, keep going.
Yang Guang played by Hu Ge actually has a prototype-Mr. Xia Boyu. He lost his legs when he climbed Mount Everest in 1975. For more than 40 years, he has challenged Mount Everest and finally became the first disabled person to climb Mount Everest in 2018.
I can’t help thinking of the Nobel Prize’s award speech to Camus: "Here, the most important thing is not to ask whether life is worth living, but how to live, which contains the meaning of suffering from life. What about absent?" Can ordinary people challenge their fate? I don’t think so.
Maybe this is the most suitable movie to watch now.
Recalling the harsh evaluation of my friends at the beginning, I think "The Climber" may be the most underrated movie this holiday season.
As Wu Jing said, no real climbing film has appeared in Chinese film genres.
has no experience, and moves forward resolutely, knowing that it cannot be done, this is also a kind of success.
When the holidays are over, as ordinary people, we will devote ourselves to ordinary life, day after day, just like Wu Jing in the factory, like Zhang Yi who has been waiting for 15 years in the Everest base camp.
is probably the best time to watch this movie. This is a story for ordinary people. It tells us that facing life, we need the mentality of climbers.
crawls on the ground, licking the bitterness of life, like an ice axe, plunges deeply into the iceberg of life.
one day, we will reach the top.
