Unfortunately, I am talking about the movie. We watched Into the Wild, which was directed by Sean Penn, last evening. I have never been so emotionally affected by a movie in a long time. It threw me for a loop and I have trying to recover all day.
The movie is about a young man who went to discover life the way he felt it, along with inspiration from many poets. He left everything and took off on a road trip searching and ended up in the deep wilderness of Alaska by himself. I will not bluntly tell you the ending, but if you want to see the movie maybe don't read on, you probably will be able to read between my lines. My husband believes he found what he was looking for so the ending was o.k. for him. It is not that simple in my mind. What he was looking for changed. I feel so strongly about the relationships he made on his journey! They were quickly made but felt so deep by both parties. I don't feel his time was over, he needed to return to these people. I understand the selfishness that goes along with his quest, but am angered on how selfish he was. (Boy this circular talk really makes sense in my mind, hope you are hangin' in there.) I am so saddened when such an intellectual mind goes to waste. I understand this is was a documentary on the items that were left by him on the "Magic Bus", so not all parts are portrayed accurately. It has been a long day, I have full out cried and come to tears many of times telling the story. . . tomorrow is another day!
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Oh I am so glad you saw the movie because now I have someone to talk about it with other than Sam. He has read the book about 20 times (I haven't read it) and his mom got him the movie for Easter. We watched it together and it really made me mad - I know big surprise. Sam says I am volatile. Anyway, throughout the movie I kept saying that he was unbalanced - I thought he was almost unabomberish. He was extremely selfish and really vengeful when it came to his parents. Sure things may have been bad, but they could ave been worse. I could even see his anger toward them, but what he did to his sister was unforgivable - if it was really so bad, why would he go off and leave her? And that poor old man - the leather worker, break my heart. Plus, his story wouldn't have been a story had it not ended the way it did... See, I never lack an opinion. Hope you recovered from the movie - I am not sure I have yet.
Heather
Heather - it is 5:04 in the morning! My words don't come until about 7:30- I nod and point until then. I watched it again last night, so we'll have to talk again.
n.
Never mind, they must be posting on west coast time. It is actually 10 here - you were scaring me for a moment.
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