Just saw it for the first time over the weekend. I thought it was a pretty solid movie. I don't think it will be changing my life or anything like that. I might need to watch it again to fully appreciate it...
Anyway, like I've said before, I now know of two cases in my immediate area where young men have suddenly left home for no apparent reason never to be heard from again...and what they leave behind, ain't pretty. And if you want to leave like that to teach your family a lesson about the real you and "I'll show them!", then your quest isn't true. That would be very passive-aggressive and wouldn't be about the adventure at all. It would be purely about pissing off your family, and that's what Chris McCandless seemed to do. He did it for the wrong and very misguided reasons...at least, that how I see it from what I've seen and what I've read.
That is the one thing that really bothered me about the story... Leaving his family like he did was so utterly selfish, that he basically became part of what he despised about them.
My whole life
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
That is the one thing that really bothered me about the story... Leaving his family like he did was so underly selfish, that he basically became part of what he despised about them.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I sat in the theater for 30 mins. after it was over, and left changed. People don't understand when I tell them that this movie seriously can alter the way you look at things. It has brought me closer to my family, and I hang around a different crowd now.
It is the most influential movie I have seen thus far in my life.
really?? 30 mins??? did the ushers have to kick you out or what?........weirdo....
That is the one thing that really bothered me about the story... Leaving his family like he did was so utterly selfish, that he basically became part of what he despised about them.
maybe he intended to return........taking back what he learned and experienced and incorporating that into his life.......
I actually have not seen it in like 2 months so i may go ahead and put it in while i'm in bed trying to fall asleep................
i left the theater feeling bad for his family. his parents loved him, even if they didnt totally understand him. i am so completely different from most of the people in my family...doesnt mean i want to disappear and cut them out of my life.
and he seemed somewhat close to his sister. it broke my heart to see her suffer. she didnt deserve that.
he was very selfish and immature.
GREAT cinematography though. and hal holbrook made the whole thing acting-wise.
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That is the one thing that really bothered me about the story... Leaving his family like he did was so utterly selfish, that he basically became part of what he despised about them.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
good point. Very selfish.
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really?? 30 mins??? did the ushers have to kick you out or what?........weirdo....
maybe he intended to return........taking back what he learned and experienced and incorporating that into his life.......
I actually have not seen it in like 2 months so i may go ahead and put it in while i'm in bed trying to fall asleep................
and he seemed somewhat close to his sister. it broke my heart to see her suffer. she didnt deserve that.
he was very selfish and immature.
GREAT cinematography though. and hal holbrook made the whole thing acting-wise.