>I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
What does Sup Forums think of Into the Wild? Do you respect or deride Christopher McCandless's adventurous spirit and grand ideals?
not really he gone done fucked up
He's a retard that should not be glorified.
He wasn't prepared but at least he had no regrets
living pampered for 20 years then diving in head first thinking education means intelligence, if he didnt know his limits by then he never was gonna
No. He was a faggot and Sean Penn is an even bigger faggot for making a movie about this cuck. Movie is good for a laugh when you're drunk or bored though.
Pedophile.
>at least he had no regrets
>Someone has autism.
why dont you make me
That doesn't imply regret in the slightest
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>Being this new
Yeah, I'm sure he didn't regret being a novice outdoorsman while dying of starvation.
What I got out of it was that, Yeah, you can run away from it all, live out bush and be care free, but at the end of the day, Family is what it is all about, being around the ones you care about, despite how fucked the world is, the whole work to live cycle, media bullshit and the government control crap... family is our one last piece of humanity they cannot take from us ever...
This movie is really good and inspiring... if you're 16.
What I got was this was whiny pampered kid who thought his predetermined life of upper middle class success was shitty and decided that dying in a bus in alaska due to his arrogance at thinking he could survive was a better alternative to that cushy lifestyle. The sad thing is anyone who has watched a few episodes of Man Vs. Wild and remembers what was in the show would be better equipped to handle the wilderness and would probably have survived.
this
*doffs trilby*
No, I think his journey is important and it really showed that he, even thinking of himself as antisocial and outside the normal rules of communities, can actually fit in any group and at any point he could just say "hey I guess I want to live this life", he kept thinking of a dream that he idealized and was actually sorry for being wrong.
In the end, as Dr. Zhivago reads, happines can only be true when shared, something he realized when he was completely alone.
He's an idiot, who died out of his own spite.
this film was surprisingly even handed.
it portrayed him as a likeable but flawed kid who fucked up and kept running away from meaningful relationships. it showed the positives and downfalls of his actions, the fun times he had and meaningful bonds he forged and the ultimate emptiness of constantly trying to escape from society, ending in a lonely pointless death
This.
I had never even heard of this guy and within 10 minutes of the film I concluded he was mentally ill, schizophrenia my guess was.
I didn't even know it was a true story.