After seeing Into the Wild will anyone pull a Chris Mccandless?

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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    catefrances wrote:
    no. im sure dying out in the boonies wasn't his intention. but it was a risk he was obviously prepared to take. he just waited too long.

    people die all the time.
    i think the mccandless story is a unique portrayal for this day and age in that maccandless went to such lengths to define himself beyond the binds of the status quo.
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  • catefrances
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    gue_barium wrote:
    people die all the time.
    i think the mccandless story is a unique portrayal for this day and age in that maccandless went to such lengths to define himself beyond the binds of the status quo.

    and here's me thinking they are all just being abducted by aliens. :p:D
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  • prism
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    catefrances wrote:
    no. im sure dying out in the boonies wasn't his intention. but it was a risk he was obviously prepared to take. he just waited too long.

    but I can still see how people would view starving to death alone stuck in the boonies as tragic. plus had he foresaw all the risk he would've been better prepared. I kinda think that he was over-confident to the point that he never considered not being able to get out and that he could be poisioned by eating seeds that would lead to him starving to death
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  • catefrances
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    prism wrote:
    but I can still see how people would view starving to death alone stuck in the boonies as tragic. plus had he foresaw all the risk he would've been better prepared. I kinda think that he was over-confident to the point that he never considered not being able to get out and that he could be poisioned by eating seeds that would lead to him starving to death

    foresight wasn't in his plan i imagine. would kinda have take the edge off what he was doing. was he naive? probably. but the fact that he did what he did is what i'm in praise of. people die crossing the road on their way to their 9 to 5 ratcage job and never even see a bear in the wild or smell the pine trees. you look at an adventure like that and think well how difficult could it be? the indigenous peoples have managed it for thousands of years. well i guess he found out how difficult it was. :( and he didn't die wondering.
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  • catefrances
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    so... i saw into the wild today. never in my life have i been so emotionally affected by a film. what a celebration of life i found it. so many thoughts rose in my head that it was difficult for me to see straight. these thoughts have always been in my head, but today watching the movie they all just became clearer. i realised fully how much i hate the way i am living my life, and how i seriously need to take charge of it before it kills what little spiirit i have left. i was in total awe of the decision mccandless made to walk away from the life he had and didnt want to be a part of. dont think im romanticising what he did cause i know better than that. im sure im not the only person on this board that has trememndous trouble dealing with society. and for mccandless to do what he did took tremendous conviction. i was thinking how can i be responsible for my children when i cant even take responsibility for my own life. if i cant be true to myself, how can i be true to them and expect the same in return. i dont know what im going to do to resolve what has been awakened inside me but something will be done.
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  • gue_barium
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    catefrances wrote:
    so... i saw into the wild today. never in my life have i been so emotionally affected by a film. what a celebration of life i found it. so many thoughts rose in my head that it was difficult for me to see straight. these thoughts have always been in my head, but today watching the movie they all just became clearer. i realised fully how much i hate the way i am living my life, and how i seriously need to take charge of it before it kills what little spiirit i have left. i was in total awe of the decision mccandless made to walk away from the life he had and didnt want to be a part of. dont think im romanticising what he did cause i know better than that. im sure im not the only person on this board that has trememndous trouble dealing with society. and for mccandless to do what he did took tremendous conviction. i was thinking how can i be responsible for my children when i cant even take responsibility for my own life. if i cant be true to myself, how can i be true to them and expect the same in return. i dont know what im going to do to resolve what has been awakened inside me but something will be done.

    I saw it last week, finally. I think it was better than I expected, and does justice to the the Krakauer account. Maybe even better in some respects.

    I was the first one to leave the theater. I think everyone else had to sit for awhile to dry their tears.

    Eddie on the soundtrack made me feel at home, at first, as if I hadn't left my seat at the computer posting on the message pit. Lol.
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  • catefrances
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    gue_barium wrote:
    I saw it last week, finally. I think it was better than I expected, and does justice to the the Krakauer account. Maybe even better in some respects.

    I was the first one to leave the theater. I think everyone else had to sit for awhile to dry their tears.

    Eddie on the soundtrack made me feel at home, at first, as if I hadn't left my seat at the computer posting on the message pit. Lol.

    i left the cinema a little ways into the credits and had to retreat to the ladies to regain my composure. on the way home i listened to the soundtrack and just coasted home almost on auto pilot.

    at the end when his father was in the street and showed that he wasnt wearing any sox, i broke down completely. i dont think there is anything worse than the silence of not knowing.
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  • gue_barium
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    catefrances wrote:
    i left the cinema a little ways into the credits and had to retreat to the ladies to regain my composure. on the way home i listened to the soundtrack and just coasted home almost on auto pilot.

    at the end when his father was in the street and showed that he wasnt wearing any sox, i broke down completely. i dont think there is anything worse than the silence of not knowing.

    I did that once.
    I disappeared for 2-3 months in Arizona without anyone knowing where I was. I had used a soup kitchen address prior to that, in Tucson, and when I finally got back there, there was a letter from my Mom saying she had looked all over for me and didn't know where else to write. My Grandma had died.
    I haven't done that again.

    I will tell you though, when you come from a family that has gone through a shitload of conflict, it is extremely liberating, at least for a little while to suddenly be free of any association with them. To be anonymous that way.
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  • catefrances
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    gue_barium wrote:
    I did that once.
    I disappeared for 2-3 months in Arizona without anyone knowing where I was. I had used a soup kitchen address prior to that, in Tucson, and when I finally got back there, there was a letter from my Mom saying she had looked all over for me and didn't know where else to write. My Grandma had died.
    I haven't done that again.

    I will tell you though, when you come from a family that has gone through a shitload of conflict, it is extremely liberating, at least for a little while to suddenly be free of any association with them. To be anonymous that way.

    i think when i do go, i couldn't allow my family to not know i was okay. i guess im fortunate that in my case all the conflict i feel is from within me. and tis very difficult to walk away from oneself. but i think its time for a major shakeup.
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  • gue_barium
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    Oh!
    I hadn't studied the previews all that much and was pleasantly surprised to find that Catherine Keener was in this movie. She has got to be one of the loveliest, talented actors in the business today, imho.
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  • gue_barium
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    catefrances wrote:
    i think when i do go, i couldn't allow my family to not know i was okay. i guess im fortunate that in my case all the conflict i feel is from within me. and tis very difficult to walk away from oneself. but i think its time for a major shakeup.

    The outback? Or rubber tramping?
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  • catefrances
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    gue_barium wrote:
    The outback? Or rubber tramping?

    canada. or an equivalent cool(in temperature) place. or mexico. :)
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  • catefrances
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    the scene where tracy and alex sang angel from montgomery i swear i wept. tis one of my fave songs.
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  • gue_barium
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    catefrances wrote:
    the scene where tracy and alex sang angel from montgomery i swear i wept. tis one of my fave songs.

    That was pretty cool. If you think of that whole scene, leading up to that performance they had together, as sweet as it was, I think this is where I certainly would have made a different choice than Mr. Supertramp earlier on.

    If you know what I mean. ;)
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  • catefrances
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    gue_barium wrote:
    That was pretty cool. If you think of that whole scene, leading up to that performance they had together, as sweet as it was, I think this is where I certainly would have made a different choice than Mr. Supertramp earlier on.

    If you know what I mean. ;)

    yeah i know what you mean. :)

    but i get the feeling to do that wouldve brought on a whole mass of complicated feelings for alex. the last thing he wanted was encumberences.


    someone suggested to me that vancouver island might be the place to go.
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  • gue_barium
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    catefrances wrote:
    yeah i know what you mean. :)

    but i get the feeling to do that wouldve brought on a whole mass of complicated feelings for alex. the last thing he wanted was encumberences.


    someone suggested to me that vancouver island might be the place to go.

    Maybe that was his problem.
    Love shouldn't be an encumbrance.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    PureandEasy wrote:
    No, but I am going to the Sierra Mountains next week. But we will have a house and there will be a group of us. I’m looking forward to seeing the wilderness in all its beauty but we will be fully prepared.

    What Chris did was foolish. A very sad story indeed.


    If you want to kick it up a notch ...don't bring food.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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  • gue_barium
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    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    If you want to kick it up a notch ...don't bring food.

    No kidding.

    I can't stand these fucks talking about what a fool this young, intelligent man was.

    Pussies. All of them.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    rather nice website http://www.intothewild.com/
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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    (\__/)
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  • dontloseyourheat
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    gue_barium wrote:
    That was pretty cool. If you think of that whole scene, leading up to that performance they had together, as sweet as it was, I think this is where I certainly would have made a different choice than Mr. Supertramp earlier on.

    If you know what I mean. ;)


    I was thinking the same thing when I saw the movie. I was just looking at Kristen Stewart's (Tracy) IMDB page and found out she was born in 1990!

    I hate it when people younger than me are much more successful and richer than I will ever become.
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