Into the Wild, 2007

[GeraldParticipant 3620]

Just finished “Into the Wild” from 2007.

Awesome movie. The main character goes his own way in life and lives by his own rules… living an epic adventure outside the norm.

Fully recommend it… check it out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/?ref_=nv_sr_1

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[TaxGuyParticipant]

I read the book. It was pretty damned good as well.

Order the good wine

[CombatRollParticipant 2594]

Absolutely. Great book. Movie was good, as well.

What a spoiled little rich boy – but he had b~~~~ and what a sense of adventure!

[chirParticipant]

I’m sorry, the mythos that has built up around him starving to death is something that should not be encouraged. He was completely unprepared for the environment he ran off to.

An Alaskan native and park ranger had this to comment:
I did not start this essay to trash poor Chris McCandless. Not intentionally. It is sad that the boy had to die. The tragedy is that McCandless more than likely was suffering from mental illness and didn’t have to end his life the way he did. The fact that he chose Alaska’s wildlands to do it in speaks more to the fact that it makes a good story than to the fact that McCandless was heroic or somehow extraordinary. In the end, he was sadly ordinary in his disrespect for the land, the animals, the history, and the self sufficiency ethos of Alaska, the Last Frontier.

Yes, he went his own way. I agree on that. However he did not put any thought into the realities of living off-grid. The mountain men who did that in the past were HIGHLY skilled and often worked together to increase chances of survival. Very harsh existence. Made Hard Men.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[GeraldParticipant 3620]

chir wrote:

I’m sorry, the mythos that has built up around him starving to death is something that should not be encouraged. He was completely unprepared for the environment he ran off to.

An Alaskan native and park ranger had this to comment:
I did not start this essay to trash poor Chris McCandless. Not intentionally. It is sad that the boy had to die. The tragedy is that McCandless more than likely was suffering from mental illness and didn’t have to end his life the way he did. The fact that he chose Alaska’s wildlands to do it in speaks more to the fact that it makes a good story than to the fact that McCandless was heroic or somehow extraordinary. In the end, he was sadly ordinary in his disrespect for the land, the animals, the history, and the self sufficiency ethos of Alaska, the Last Frontier.

Yes, he went his own way. I agree on that. However he did not put any thought into the realities of living off-grid. The mountain men who did that in the past were HIGHLY skilled and often worked together to increase chances of survival. Very harsh existence. Made Hard Men.

I get where you are at with that, but up until the last few weeks of the magic bus, he had an amazing adventure

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[Anonymous 14]

One of my favorite movies/stories. I couldn’t help but feel bad for him at the end even though it was his own f~~~-ups that got him there.
Cool guy, I would have liked to of met him.

He realized just how sick society was early on in life and attempted to break away from it, including his overbearing/insane parents.

The quote below should tell you I can relate to Christopher.

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