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The Last Bus and Harold Fry
Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris three weeks through ice and rain because he had heard that his mentor, Lottie Eisner, was ill. Jim Brawbent's Harold Fry is the same way: as long as he walks, he says, I will not die or she will not die. He repeats this to himself as a kind of mantra - shoes are falling apart. And then when you finally, the moment of walking past the Angel of the North, every time I see it on the screen in Britain, one part of me cries.
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