re: Into The Wild

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I appreciated his sense of individualism but his hubris at believing he was in any way prepared for this undertaking was foolhardy.

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sums up my feelings after watching this film. Well said.

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I think that was part of the lure.

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I think the thought of being alone in the outdoors just hooked him.

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got stuck by the river

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Only thing is that if he'd had a map, he could have easily found his way to the foot bridge less than a mile down river.

He without a doubt took the idea to an unhealthy level. But I think he found his answer and really died an unhappy man. When he wrote that only true happiness is shared or whatever he realized that he took it overboard, but none the less, he did it his way and no one can dispute that.

I just watched the trailer and it is similar to a book I read not too long ago. The Man Who Quit Money

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Read Into Thin Air,

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Great book

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I didn't do it anything like him. I'm not a true adventurer like a lot of people I met. I stayed for a long time in in mexico, nicaragua, peru. Then I went to italy, stayed there for probably 6 weeks and then started country jumping a bit more on my last month. I studied alot, met a lot of people but also spent a lot of time all by myself. It's empowering.

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How do people do this?
How do you have the money to do this? How do you leave your job, or get a new one? Did you not live somewhere before? What did you do with your stuff? Does it not get old being away from normal life that long, or from family?

But seriously, how did you get the financial security to do this?

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great soundtrack

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Eddie Vedder did an amazing job.

I've never understood the hate people have for the lead in this movie. Was it dumb as frick to just waltz into Alaska and think you could hangout for a winter? Absolutely, beyond idiotic.

However, that foolhearty, self-confident adventurer spirit is what Americans have clung to for generations. The kid was beyond ill-prepared and overly confident in his abilities, but he had an idea that he committed to and he carried it out. He didn't let the naysayers and the risks and the perceptions and all the hundreds of other things that keep everyone from truly going out and changing their lives (obviously not on the level of moving to Alaska like he did).

If there's anything I hated about this movie it was how he treated his sister. I can see the animosity towards his parents. He's still a kid and is bitter towards his parents. Do I think that means they deserve to be completely cutout of his life for having a sucky marriage? No, but atleast I can see why he'd feel this way. I know plenty of kids who came from broken/bitter marriages who weren't able to forgive and accept their parents until they grew older.

The way he treated his sister, however, was completely uncalled for. He knew she idolized him and knew she was always scared of losing him. He completely threw her under the bus for his own selfish reasons.

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I believe the uncomfortableness of facing one's own sense of Romanticism is why the movie is at all intriguing. Otherwise, frankly, it was a little boring. I would imagine the only people who had any sort of enjoyment out of the movie are those with a strong sense of doing or desire to do something "more" with their lives, people who have an inflated sense of self (like me) who want to either make a mark on the world or who want to disengage from it entirely. Basically, people who are Romantics. And this movie tells the tale of an extreme Romantic who paid dearly for his pride and for his outlook on the world.

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Exactly. There are times when I love being a romatic, and there are times when it makes my daily monotony beyond depressing.

I personally love the movie (if you couldn't tell). I loved the soundtrack, loved the visuals (looks incredible in BluRay), and loved the casting. I also loved that he didn't survive in the end, and it made me angry that he was so dumb but also happy that they didn't Hollywood it and make him survive.