His temperament is very similar to the spiritual world of Burt Munro, the hero in the film. As the top and oldest driver in the history of motorcycle racing in New Zealand, Burt Munro was 68 years old when he broke the world record. The superposition of these two awards magnifies the almost legendary highlight moment in his life.
Love for motorcycles, persistence in extreme speed, and unremitting pursuit of dreams ... Old Bert explained the will quality of "flower of life must try its best to bloom before dying" with his own actions, and wrote the "Legend of the old gun" of "holding the sword well and bravely standing in the Jianghu".
Bert was 68 years old when he made up his mind to travel halfway around the world from Inver cargill, New Zealand to Bonneville, Utah, USA. For peers all over the world, most of them may be enjoying their old age, but Bert is still fighting for a sport that makes adrenal hormones soar.
The direct cause of Bert's doing this is the heart attack from time to time and the prostate that has troubled him for a long time. These old parts of the body protest from time to time, which means that Bert is inevitably getting old. Realizing that life was coming to an end, Bert obviously didn't want to be so lonely.
"I just want to reach the limit and die." For an old man, maintaining this strong attitude towards life can be described as "extremely tough". Although he is an old man, Bert has a more competitive heart than young people. When competing with those cyclists, he didn't show cowardice, but he was extremely confident in himself and his "old buddy". This is the most important psychological quality to engage in competitive events and pursue extreme results.
Bert chose to devote his life to the speed race because of his love for motorcycles. In his view, it is enough for a person to achieve the ultimate in hobbies all his life.
Tracing back to the source, his behavior originated from a misfortune in his life. Bert's twin brother Ernie, a young man with bright mind, excellent academic performance and promising future, died in an accident. This blow forced him to rethink the meaning of life and form his own profound understanding different from ordinary people.
For him, there is no such thing as "everything is ready" on the road to his dream. He knows that life is always full of uncertainty, and accidents often follow. The only thing you can control in life is to make yourself stronger to cope with the difficulties that may arise at any time.
Old Bertie won the respect of young people with his love for motorcycles and his pursuit of extreme speed. When he left town to pursue his dream in the United States, the young people who had "humiliated" him brought him money and a heroic farewell ceremony.
His little neighbor Thomas, this may be a role design instead of the audience. He is a fan and brother of Bert, and also a believer and follower of Bert's spiritual will. The existence of Thomas made Bert inherit his precious qualities. Everything the little boy felt was subtly conveyed to the audience through the plot.
Being old is not terrible, but being old is really terrible!
American investment guru Charles Munger once said, "In the eyes of people with hammers, the world is like a nail." In the film, Bert sees himself as a hammer. When encountering problems, he doesn't complain or back down, tries to pull out the "nail" of the problem, and then moves forward step by step in the direction he believes.
At first, it was money that restricted Bert from taking the first step. If you want to take part in competitions all over the world, you must have enough activity funds. At that time, all his property was only 1000 dollars, which was all his savings after many years of retirement.
As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for." I believe that many people will not rashly choose to travel abroad without money, but Bert's behavior pattern does not stop there. If you have no money to buy a boat ticket, you will work and cook on the boat to offset the fare; If you can't afford a hotel, take charge of the car. Learn to bargain and get the maximum profit with the minimum cost; I will also make good friends and use a wide range of contacts to gather sand into a tower.
Speaking of affinity, being kind to others in a strange foreign country has become an important support for Bert's firm dream. He will not look at Tina's sexual orientation with strange eyes, but give her enough respect; He will help Fernando repair the car and win the latter's respectful thanks; He will talk to Jack about men's hidden diseases, and he will also go with Ada to pay homage to his dead husband. When picking up noncommissioned officers hitchhiking, they will share their views on war and life with each other. ......
Bert always treats everyone who appears in his life with kindness, and at the same time wins others' goodwill and respect for him. Without Moffat's lobbying for the organizers, Burt would hardly have participated in the competition. But it was Bert's polite conversation when they first met that quickly established their appreciation for each other.
It can be said that Burt met many outstanding people who helped him along the way. Even when everyone was celebrating his record-breaking, he indirectly alleviated his lack of funds by raising funds. In a sense, Bert constantly expands and develops his professional team by showing his personal charm. Besides, the operation was quite successful.
Of course, behind all this, it still stems from his enthusiasm and detached strength for forza motorsport. When the organizers reluctantly agreed to unregistered Bert to take part in the competition, according to their expectations, what effect could the old man achieve by pushing such an outdated thing? But Bert proved with facts that "an old gun will shake the automobile world three times."
So it is not accurate to say that opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. People who can really seize the opportunity and turn it into excellent results are all people with transcendental power. For them, luck is inevitable.
Bert has always been extremely firm in his efforts to achieve his goals in life. He knows very well that if he wants it, he must give it up and make himself simple and pure. In fact, Bert has been doing subtraction on the road of pursuing the ultimate speed.
When Fernando realized that Bert was an old mechanical genius, he wanted to keep Bert working in his trading market with a high salary. However, Bert refused Fernand's proposal, although their relationship was already familiar.
For a person with a firm goal, rejecting all kinds of temptations is a compulsory course to cultivate more vigorously in life. Before an unreachable dream in the ordinary sense is fulfilled, he must go on without extra time to look around and stop.
There is another passage that can explain this mode of thinking, that is, Bert's motorcycle was seriously damaged during the consignment because of the shipper. Fortunately, the locomotive itself was not damaged. The customs that accepted the goods advised Bert to sue the forwarder, but Bert said he didn't have the leisure time at all.
Burt only stayed in America for half a year. He knows that if he wants to achieve his goal, he can only race against time. To this end, he must abandon the unimportant baggage and go into battle lightly. Because of this, everything that takes time and energy, but has nothing to do with achieving the goal, is out of his concern.
Also abandoned is "beauty". Whether Fran or Ada, although Bert had intimate behavior with them, it was more like a happy moment when passion came. He knew that he wouldn't be immersed in "gentle happiness", and he had to give up being immersed in love with children in order to go to Wan Li without any obstacles. Although, it seems particularly cold.
There is only so much energy in life, so Bert tries to reduce meaningless energy consumption and focus on the most important goals. As Laozi said, "People are not here, and there is more than enough." Who can serve the world? It's just Tao. "In a sense, Bert is a man of great wisdom.
Bert's wisdom also lies in never giving up and sticking to his dreams. In order to make a standard piston, he experienced hundreds of experiments. On the open road, the towed locomotive fell to the side of the road because the left wheel slipped. If you are a fragile person, any difficulty may make you give up.
It is always easier to give up than to persist for a long time. However, once giving up becomes a habit, people will get deeper and deeper in the mire of mediocrity. So Bert, the "old gun", will become a strange old man in the eyes of others.
To paraphrase Nietzsche's famous saying, "A higher-level philosopher is lonely not because he wants to be lonely, but because he can't find his peers around him." In fact, those extraordinary people, which one is not? ?