Bill Bennett — Playwright (5)

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The Way, My Way (2024)
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other title: 我的朝圣之路 / Mein Weg - 780 km zu mir …
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.

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极度战栗 (2001)
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Bill Bennett actor: 马特丹 / 弗兰西丝·奥康纳
other title: Kiss or Kill
尼克(弗兰西丝·奥康纳 Frances O'Connor 饰)和艾尔(Matt Day 饰)表面看来只是一对恩爱有加的平凡情侣,可实际上,他们是行走在江湖之中的雌雄大盗,两人天衣无缝的配合着犯下了屡屡罪案,始终未曾落入过恢恢的法网。 一场意外中,两人在行窃的过程中失手杀了人,这可惹出了大麻烦。这起劫杀案很快就吸引了警方的注意,尼克和艾尔成为了众矢之的,无奈只得双双踏上逃亡的旅途。两人一路向西,来到了一间小旅馆投宿,可隔天早晨却发现旅馆老板被人杀害。之后,他们又来到了另一间破旧的旅店,结果悲剧重演,他们的手上又多了两条人命。屡屡发生的怪事让尼克和艾尔之间的信任逐渐分崩离析。

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In a Savage Land (1999)
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other title: 在一块蛮荒的土地上 / En una tierra salvaje …
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.

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Uninhabited (2010)
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other title: 无人 / 无人荒岛 …
Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. It was small and totally deserted or so they thought. But when things go missing from their camp site and they discover someone else's footprints in the sand this quickly becomes disturbing as they realize the island has a ghost! Inspired by actual events.