Synopsis
Competition is everywhere we look. Popular sport is a pretext for universal communion. In individual behaviour we find collective behaviour. In the way we behave, we take on others. We head for somewhere. The marathon strangely resembles what we go through life: moments of faillure, weakness, encouragements, willpower, self-transformation. For those who practice this sport, long distance running is like praying. Experts say that it is “internal exploration and a meeting of body and spirit”. The runner pushes his organism to its limits of physical resistance and, if he manages to get through the “black hole” of failure, he will enter into an altered state of consciousness in which his being is in contact with everything around him.