As many European comedies, it starts with a silly idea. Like telling a girl you'd climb the Everest for her. You can guess that anyone who actually tries without proper training is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
The people who accept him nonetheless on his crazy journey change him. Very feel-good movie in that respect. His grumpy guide who teaches him the basics for a payday despite seeing right through his BS, his lovely sherpa who likes to learn french, wonderfully interpreted. The mountain itself changes him. The sublime of it is not well-rendered on screen but it is humbling, and he needs that to become a better man.
Just like the man in the terrible romance novel given by his mother that his sherpa asks him to read to him, he gets better. He sees those men, going back and forth, doing the hard work when he's barely able not to pee his pants and give up...it gets him thinking and us laughing.
Inspired by, not altogether the true story.
The people who accept him nonetheless on his crazy journey change him. Very feel-good movie in that respect. His grumpy guide who teaches him the basics for a payday despite seeing right through his BS, his lovely sherpa who likes to learn french, wonderfully interpreted. The mountain itself changes him. The sublime of it is not well-rendered on screen but it is humbling, and he needs that to become a better man.
Just like the man in the terrible romance novel given by his mother that his sherpa asks him to read to him, he gets better. He sees those men, going back and forth, doing the hard work when he's barely able not to pee his pants and give up...it gets him thinking and us laughing.
Inspired by, not altogether the true story.