Will not be sensational like a German, but can also shoot such a tragic story

Godfrey 2022-01-19 08:01:07

The German lens is realistic and crisp, without too many facial close-ups and details. Piton can't bear the weight of three people, and slashes the rope without even saying goodbye to friends. For a kid who grew up in a country where food film documentaries are sensational, this kind of neatness is a bit embarrassing.

Then there is irony. The climbers were sleeping at the foot of the mountain and eating simple cereals to prepare for the next day of climbing. The trophy wife of the boss is the most funny, wearing a fur belt and a top hat all day long and saying: Ah, I'm so excited. The mountaineering team froze on the mountainside for a night, and the nobles below continued to climb the ladder to celebrate. The trophy wife cuts the mountain-shaped cake, and did not forget to have a model climber on the cake, the mud horse, this is the fruit-eating people who don’t spit bones! In the end, the mountaineering team returned in distress.

It's a different outdoor film, the plot is not so monotonous, human nature, political and historical background, friendship, love, a lot of very busy and lively.

Details determine success or failure, and life and death are all on two ropes.

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Extended Reading
  • Wade 2022-03-20 09:02:38

    On the importance of staying behind. . . . . .

  • Ruthie 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    Full of blood and hope, but frozen to death, there is no chance to conquer

North Face quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in German, quoting English subtitles]

    Luise Fellner: [voiceover] When you're at the bottom - Toni once told me - at the foot of the wall, and you look up, you ask yourself: How can anyone climb that? Why would anyone even want to? But hours later when you're at the top looking down, you've forgotten everything. Except the one person you promised you would come back to.

  • [last lines]

    [in German, quoting English subtitles]

    Luise Fellner: [voiceover] All I know is that death spared me, and that Toni went away forever that day. One has lived if one has loved. There are times when I find this infinitely hard to believe. Most days I feel that I am alive. And that love is the reason for that.