18 Jul, 2009
INTO THE WILD
Yesterday I was watching this on HBO and was stuck with it. It is a great movie for its teaches a lot of things about family, work, friendship, love, happines, generally life itself. Pursuing your goal and finding one’s self, effect of loneliness and how important are the role of your love ones and everybody around you and the whole normal system that we live in to be there existing so that we could share the things we like. And I think this is also the main basic and fundamental reason why we live in this world. A must see movie, exciting and disturbing.
Here is a brief synopsis of the movie: ( from IMDB)
A young man leaves his middle class existence in pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation. Giving up his home, family, all possessions but the few he carried on his back and donating all his savings to charity Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) embarks on a journey throughout America. His eventual aim is to travel into Alaska, into the wild, to spend time with nature, with ‘real’ existence, away from the trappings of the modern world. In the 20 months leading up to his Great Alaskan Adventure his travels lead him on a path of self-discovery, to examine and appreciate the world around him and to reflect on and heal from his troubled childhood and parents’ sordid and abusive relationship. When he reaches Alaska he finds he has been insufficiently prepared for the hardships to come. Despite making it through the winter his plan is ill-judged and prepares to return home in spring, only to find the stream he crossed in the snow has become an impassable raging torrent and that he is trapped. With no means of sustaining himself adequately he takes to eating berries and fauna, that he identifies using a book. Unfortunately, he awakes one morning to find that the berries he consumed the night before were in fact poisonous, and causes him to starve in his so sought after isolation. Throughout his epic journey the people he meets both influence and are influenced by the person he is and bring him to the eventual and tragic realisation that “Happiness is only real when shared”.
