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.
Was this bus abandoned by some hippies? How did the bus get there, and how did he find it? Those old school buses were cheap to buy.
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.
>>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.
his father sounds like a piece of crap himself....