Posted on 06/19/2020 12:55:55 PM PDT by libstripper
I saw the movie in a free preview and hadn’t read the book. Had the same feeling as you. The movie sets it up as some kid disillusioned with society and one can see he’d be a hero to the Hollywood left. So the whole point is this was his rejection and rebellion of how awful things are. Living in the wild was pure and all that crap the left feeds young people. Reality however doesn’t conform to the worldview of the left.
Interesting story. Classic survival tragedy. Wondering what they’ll do with the bus.
Main takeaway from all the survival studies I’ve done: don’t expect to eat; great if you do, know what you can, but expect starvation.
Having discussed this with several Alaskans, all felt sorry for the lad and all agreed that he was no hero, only a poorly prepared rookie.
Stay Strong/BeGood
RossB
lol, yeah, won’t it make it worse? With nothing to find they will really get lost.
Waste of a life because his parents let him grow up liberal.
It really was. He was young and an idiot, and didn’t have time to grow up and mature.
Agnes Varda directed an even more brutal (though different) story about a wandering young woman who would heed no one, VAGABOND.
Guess the bus wasn’t a good safe space.
So many Darwin Award candidates, it’s almost like a death cult
Agreed, he has written some really good books.
>>Didn’t see the movie, but read the book. All through I just wanted to slap the crap out of the stupid kid for what he put his parents through. He would have been good Antifa fodder.
I saw that movie at a friend’s once (a girl he knew brought it over).
That was my recall on it (beyond long, slow, and pretentious music from Eddie Vedder) is that he was some kind of starstruck Clinton fan who took his college money and spent it on his trip and spouted leftist gripes against America.
But I only ever saw it once and that was a decade ago.
You feel sorry for his parents? You must not be aware of of the double life his father led, and his complete lack of remorse about it.
The one that I feel sorry for is his sister; she was the one family member that he kept in touch with until he died in Alaska.
What they call a “greenhorn”. My sibling lived in Alaska for a couple of decades.
When closure is not an option.
Even the Donner Party brought extra rations, after a fashion.
Looks like Henry Blake’s desk.
I would love to deport leftists to middle of Kodiak Island.
The really sad thing is that he was only 2 miles or so from a Forest Service Station or some such, where he could have gotten help.
A metaphor for the “No Malarkey Tour”.
Krakauer’s book portrayed him as an idealist, but I don’t think he was a leftist. The commie Sean Penn made him seem that way, but from what I remember of the book, McCandless gave his college money to Oxfam and then set off to find himself, not unlike many young men his age.
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