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【話題】《Final Finishers》：當鏡頭不再追逐第一名，跑步真正的靈魂才浮現
你看過《F1》電影嗎？我也是因為這部片，才開始回頭看 Netflix 上的紀錄片《Drive to Survive》。這部作品不僅讓一票人迷上方程式賽車，也重新定義了運動紀錄片的敘事方式：不只拍冠軍，更拍他們如何跌倒、掙扎、爬起。從那之後，無論是《環法自由車賽》、《最速人類》到各類職業運動，都開始用這種「幕後追夢」的模式，講述運動員的故事。但這些人，大多仍站在金字塔頂端。直到《Final Finishers》出現，鏡頭才終於轉向那些最容易被忽略的馬拉松最後一名。 在 Instagram 查看這則帖子 TCS New York City Marathon（@nycmarathon）分享的帖子｜聚焦終點最後的光《Final Finishers》是一部關於紐約馬拉松最後一群跑者的紀錄片。當領先者衝線幾小時後，太陽下山、人群散去，主辦單位卻沒有急忙收工，反而分發螢光棒，為那些在黑暗中艱難完成最後一段里程的跑者們指引方向。這部紀錄片不講誰跑最快，而是講那些最擔心「能不能完賽」的人，也就是你、我、我們。它讓我們知道，馬拉松不只屬於 2 小時 05 分的菁英跑者，也是屬於花 10 小時完成的人。 來自德國的 Asha Noppeney 在歷經 13 小時完成了馬拉松。圖｜Via ESPN今年 6 月，《Final Finishers》在紐約翠貝卡影展首映。多位奧運選手如 Meb Keflezighi、Conner Mantz、Clayton Young、Beverly Ramos 也受邀出席觀影。2009 紐約馬、2014 波士頓馬冠軍 Meb 就在觀影後表示：「無論你花幾小時完賽，這都是會改變人生的旅程。」｜Michael Ring 的故事影片中，一位名叫 Michael Ring 的跑者，61 歲。2014年，他被診斷出罕見自體免疫疾病，幾天內癱瘓。從輪椅到拐杖再到手杖，他一步步站起來，最後穿著腳踝支架，在 2017 年跑完紐約馬拉松耗時將近 10 小時。 圖｜NYRR這樣的故事，讓人明白：跑步，從來不只是競速。也正因此，越來越多大型馬拉松賽事（如倫敦馬）主辦單位開始調整節奏：志工會陪最後一名走完、終點線則開放到午夜，確保每位參賽者的努力都能被看見。圖｜Via The New York Times｜不靠明星，仍然動人當這部片開始尋找發行平台時，紐約路跑協會的執行長 Rob Simmelkjaer 提到：「製作公司總會問：『你們有什麼明星？會有 Eliud Kipchoge 嗎？』」他們的答案很清楚：不靠明星，也可以感動人心。Rob Simmelkjaer 說道，「片中登場的跑者對於許多人來說是最具共鳴的，他們不認為自己是所謂的『跑者』，而觀看某人以 2 小時 5 分贏得馬拉松不會讓他們覺得自己也能成為跑者，因為他們知道自己永遠做不到。」 紐約路跑協會的執行長 Rob Simmelkjaer 圖｜Via The New York TimesSlow AF Run Club 創辦人 Martinus Evans 也有出現於本片，他說：「我不想這樣說，但我還是得說：人們對頂尖運動員的故事不再那麼感興趣。人們對那些一生都在跑步、被期待拿第一的人不感興趣。」38 歲的他曾被醫生告知需要減重，當他說想跑馬拉松時，醫生嘲笑他。「我沒有像我想的那樣胖揍那個醫生，而是當天就去買了一雙跑鞋。」Evans 說道。 Slow AF Run Club 創辦人 Martinus Evans 圖｜Via The New York Times這部影片記錄了他如何最終實現目標，無視質疑者，並在終點「哭得像個嬰兒般」。 「更令人興奮、更有趣的是那些意想不到的弱者：你沒想到會出現在賽道上的人。」至今他已經跑完八場、正準備第九場。｜當我們放下秒數，才看見真正的距離《Final Finishers》或許不會告訴你誰是冠軍，但它讓我們重新看見：馬拉松的重量，從來不只在獎牌上，更藏在那些沒被看見的終點時刻。這些故事沒有頭條，卻有力量。不知道跑者們會不會期待這部《Final Finishers》呢？責任編輯：Ian 此文章由「香港運動筆記」最初發表於
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04-07-2025
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The New York City Marathon's real heroes finish after dark
Final Finishers is a new short film about the back of the New York City Marathon pack. Photograph: New York Road Runners (NYRR) Studio and Tribeca Studios Drive To Survive, the seminal Netflix docuseries which introduced a new generation to Formula One, also unleashed a wave of sports shows that swept across virtually every streaming platform. Many follow the same playbook, carefully painting a behind-the-scenes portrait of elite athletes pursuing greatness – from cyclists confronting the steepest climbs of the Tour de France and surfers hunting vast waves to tennis players vying for grand slams and track sprinters for medals. Advertisement 'That's kind of boring,' Michael Ring says of the genre. 'It's just another guy who figured out what he was best at in middle school, and didn't go to high school with normal kids, and maybe went to college, and dropped out and became a millionaire tennis player.' Ring, 61, is among a handful of amateur runners who appear in Final Finishers, a new short film about the back of the New York City Marathon pack. Many hours after the winners cross the line each year, the sun goes down over Central Park, the crowds thin, and race organizers start to hand out glow sticks. Those still out on the course, working their way through the last few grueling miles in the dark, are drawn in by the hum of a party at the finish. Turning away from record breakers and podium chasers, the film celebrates everyday runners: those more likely to dwell on whether, rather than when, they will finish 26.2 miles. Extraordinary stories are not exclusively found at the front of the pack. Advertisement Olympians including Meb Keflezighi, Conner Mantz, Clayton Young and Beverly Ramos were in the audience in June when Final Finishers premiered at the Tribeca Festival. 'Getting to the finish line, no matter how many hours it takes you, is life changing,' Keflezighi, who won the NYC Marathon in 2009 and Boston Marathon in 2014, tells the Guardian. 'Everybody has a story.' Take Ring. In 2014, he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition. 'I went from fine to paralyzed in a couple of days,' he says. Over many months he slowly, but surely, progressed from a wheelchair to crutches, and then walked with a cane. In time he returned to running, too, with the help of ankle braces, and finished the 2017 NYC Marathon – the first of many post-recovery – in just under 10 hours. Increasingly, major marathons have moved to make sure runners who finish with such times are not overlooked. In London, for example, tailwalkers set out after the final starter begins the race, and the finish line stays open until midnight. Still, for those following such races, and the wider sport, much of the coverage remains pinned around those in the lead pack. The makers of Final Finishers are betting viewers will find runners far behind just as, if not more, inspiring. Advertisement Runners featured in the film 'are the most relatable to so many people out there, who don't see themselves as a quote unquote runner,' said Rob Simmelkjaer, CEO of New York Road Runners, the organization behind the New York City Marathon. 'They can start to see themselves as runners in a way that watching someone win the marathon in two hours and five minutes is not going to make them feel they can be a runner. Because they know they can never do that.' Distribution plans for Final Finishers have yet to be announced. With another short film in the works, New York Road Runners recently launched East 89th St Productions, a production studio. It hopes to produce a docuseries, too. Will a streaming platform, or broadcaster, bite? The wave of professional-focused sport docuseries appears to have crested. The new series of Tour de France: Unchained on Netflix will be the last. Six Nations: Full Contact, also on Netflix, and Make or Break, an Apple series following World Surf League stars, have been canceled. But as it draws up its plans for films and series, New York Road Runners is not rushing to put more elite athletes on screen. This has, at least at first, caused a little confusion. Advertisement 'As we went out and talked to a lot of production companies out there, there was a lot of that that came back to us. It was, 'Oh, well, you know, who are the stars?' and 'are you going to get [Eliud] Kipchoge?',' says Simmelkjaer. 'And we don't necessarily subscribe to that idea, that it has to be the stars.' 'We're definitely starting to see the tide changing,' claimed Martinus Evans, founder of Slow AF Run Club. 'I don't want to say it like this, but I'm gonna say it like this: people are not necessarily excited about elite athletes' stories. People are not excited about people who spent their life running, and they're expected to get first place.' A doctor who told Evans, 38, that he needed to lose weight laughed when said he wanted to run a marathon. 'Instead of punching the doctor like I wanted to, I bought running shoes that day,' he says in the film, which documents how he ultimately realized his goal, despite the doubters, and 'cried like a fucking baby' at the finish. 'What's more exciting, and what's a lot more interesting, is the underdog: somebody you did not expect to be out there,' Evans tells the Guardian. 'Somebody that you looked at and was like, 'Oh no, he's not going to run a marathon' – like me. But I ran eight of them. And I'm training for number nine.'
