Glory Days Gently Give Way to the Present in Kayaking Documentary ‘The River Runner’
A documentary about a man who arrogantly strides into some of the most dangerous areas nature has to offer would begin with a Hemingway quote. In this case it’s from his classic war novel A Farewell to Arms, and it goes thusly: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
As per usual when a sentence from a complex, nuanced story gets dropped into another with no context, there’s always more. You don’t need to read the book or know the exact chapter to sense that Hemingway’s novel is darker than this one sentence would have us believe; anyone who’s passingly familiar with one particular romcom starring two people who stand out for their attractiveness in a genre full of the absurdly beautiful and lovelorn will have had the ending ruined for them by now.
