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The Camino: Movie Analysis
The message in the movie The Way, I think his son said it best, “you don’t choose a life dad, you live one” (The Way, 2010). Each character in this movie were dealing with different issues in their life and set our looking to find themselves or to find meaning in their life while walking the path of pilgrims. Life circumstances had brought each one there, from a loved one’s death or abortion, being overweight, to writer’s block. On this journey of walking The Camino, each character finds inner peace in whom they are, they find friendship, and they find themselves living life in the moment.
I do agree, that there is freedom and self-discover in “living” life. Society has developed a certain expectation of how to live and when you live outside

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