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The DVD player and the computer could not read the DVD either. We could not watch the movie. There was not any scratch on the surface, probably we got an empty DVD.
Not that any one will notice. Alex is alive in every tree, rock and river,he is also in every virtuous nature loving soul whose read Krakauers book or seen his movie. Unfortunately he died, but in his short life he lived more than most of us. Here is a true story about an individual who doesnt live by society, who doesnt need material posesions, a true poet with a passion for nature and life. This is the best movie ever. This is the best book into movie ever. If you are like me and are constantly searching for that great divine spirit to show through in a person then let Christopher "alex" McCandless be your guide. Critics who made fun of his death need to be careful what they say for they don't know how their end will come.
really intriguing, well written. outstanding, just as the film. also the diversion about various outcasts is appropriate in my opinion
This movie is beautiful, deep, true, adventurous, sad, occasionally funny, real, at times very touching. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life. And Sean Penn has captured those two years for all to see in this movie. Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Chris McCandless lived a whole, remarkable, life.
When you do see it that way, you can't help but sympathize with the parents--and particularly with the sister who seemed very close to him.In the opening sequence, we see Nemo (I call the main character "Nemo" because he saw himself as a reality in search of an identity)graduate from college & offered a place at Harvard. I don't know how many other viewers saw the hero (anti-hero hero really) as much mentally ill as a rebel. He makes up wild names for himself. This is a metaphor of alchemy & magick ritual--it is also found in the New Testament teachings of Josahua ben Joseph (Jesus). Nemo has also cut off the emotional attachment to his sister, his last long term relationship. So I knew the ending & this movie provided the history.
Another sign of borderline personality disorder. However, his quest for perfect freedom in Alaska is on a par with any one who is inspired by a goal, vision of a painting, etc. Nemo logically plans his quest over an extended period of time, demonstrating that if he IS mentally ill, at least he's very high functioning. The fact that he graduated with honors does not necessarily rule out mental illness. A major symptom of schizophrenia.
hallucination. He has overcome his father & mother and in doing so, has become his OWN father & mother. This is more than a kid running from a bickering upper middle class mother & father. He does not have sex--even when offered by a beautiful girl.
It's accomplishment will free him from the lower forms of reality & raise him into unified, perfected/pure consciouness, a transcendental unity with One. There was a great deal of good in him that went unrealized & unfulfilledThe music in the film is really good & very appropriate to the scene they illuminate.At the films' conclusion, a photographic self-portrait of the man seems to indicate a man more troubled than at peace. A totem image. His failure to assess the element of water in his calculations/metaphisical formula was, in the end, tragic.
From what I read, I assumed that the subject of the news article had been suffering from some form of mental illness. He states as much in the course of the movie. This causes him to engage in very few relationships, and those he does form are on his own terms & with his right to terminate at any time. Finding the bus in the middle of a gorgeous nowhere was like a gift from a spirit, an offering literally out of the blue.When in extremis, he encounters a bear who snifs him, then passes casually on. Such is the fate of many of attempt "The Work" on totally on their own.It is tragic, not just pathetic as some reviwers claim.Maybe, unlike most of us who don't take risks for the sake of comfort & security, Nemo could have found his inner Self, his true Godhood. Maybe he could have really healed, but didn't.That's a tragedy for any broken soul.PS NOTES: Hal Holbrook is excellent as the bitter, sad old man who lost his family--and he regenerated via his relationship with Nemo. The bus was as much a gift as it was as a warning he failed to read correctly. Sean Penn's film presents us a young man who is not mentally disturbed, but a person who is clearly "troubled," a person seeking a Self unstiffled by the realities of modern, materialistic society.
His parents are ectsatic, but he's not interested. I see Nemo's Alaska goal as being a form of "The Great Work" for him. He eats strange plants & roots--yep, yet another stage. As matter of fact, the persons he managed to connect with, all benefited from the relationship. I remember reading the actual account this film was based on & I felt sad. Schizophrenia, for example, often doesn't manifest until young adulthood.Nemo carries on full conversations with himself, acting out the parental anger & dysfunction. Celibacy, another stage of The Work.
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