>>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.
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.