Directed by: Sean Penn
Country: United States
Distributed by: Paramount Vantage
Based on: Into the Wild, the 1996 non-fiction book, written by Jon Krakauer.
Movie Releases in: September 21, 2007.
Initially, what calls my attention is that the whole story is based from the Krakauer filter of what was Christopher intentions and decisions. It's an outsider non-relate to the real person, however, calling the work as non-fiction. In fact, the story came to Krakauer because of his profession and when Christopher was already dead. We see what Jon wanted us to see.
Focusing on the plot, we can see an ordinary young boy, who based on his readings, decide to live in the wilderness. It seems like a guy who can see the problems in modern society, especially because it is closely related to his life, his parents are sons of this time, perfect replicas of the futile world. Some knowledge and rebelliousness led him to fight against his reality, this future of becoming a lawyer and builting the way on money. However, even he trying to fight and find his own way, for me is a young guy who bought other people thinking that were against what he hated. And he hated because he suffered.
Christopher's intentions guided him to go live, in the way he believed living meant. The experiences he lived were truly extraordinaries, although it was the ordinary, in his view it looked awesome. The way he dealt with people was humane, closed, involved. He was willing to the others experiences. This path causes his self improvement.
The only problem I see is that few moments he has to deal with people like his parents, all people portrayted seems good and treat him very well. There are just two exceptions, the guard and the train worker, but were moments of people in their duties. It seems hard to believe that most people are open to a stranger like that.
Finally, his sad end. I didn't read the book, but if it is like the movie, come on! He looks in the book, turns a few pages, and there is a good plant, poison plant. It's like he didn't check other pages to see about the specie that he eats! Then, the end, game over. It's a really silly death. And it's ironically how he aims to go to Canada, to be alone and isolated, and ends thinking how important is to have somebody. It's death laughing at him, that poor child lost his life pursuing something and left behind what was really important.
Yeah, Christopher, you left quite a history...
That his last words be mine:
I see your point in the last paragraph, but I have to say that I don't agree when you said that he had a silly death. He could die being hit by a car in front of his parents house. In regard to family, it is important but being important to us doesn't necessary mean that i is important to everybody else. In the end of the movie what I saw was him looking for meaning in life and you letting things be the way they are. As he said in the beginning: "How important is this in life; to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in a most tension in a human being condition...".
ReplyDeleteI think I did not understand what you meant, Michelle, but the quote you presented was just the "conclusion" of the "conclusion". In my opinion he was a selfish guy who enjoyed a "good life" with money and studying in a university and then... POOF! He decided to travel around the world alone because he was smarter than anybody else and only he knew the meaning of life. But in the end he ends as if was wrong all the time and he discovers that "Happiness is only real when shared", which means that for a person to be happy, to have a good life, he or she needs to share both mundane and spiritual things. He could only understand life when he was about to die.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I also think that the movie shows Supertramp as a hero. And, let's be honest, he was only an idiot, because he did not understand that life is too complex to be discussed or comprehended. People tend to think they know everything, but the only thing we can be sure in this life is that NOTHING is right. Everything changes.
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