I can’t stop thinking about the movie Into The Wild and it’s sort of driving me crazy. I tell everyone about it...look, you really need to see this movie. He had dreams and ideas that didn’t conform to those of the people around him. He wanted a life that some people live, but not usually by choice. Furthermore, most of us could never be selfless enough to live that life. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m one of those types, I can’t imagine saving, oh say, $24,500.63, just to give it all away to charity. I don’t foresee being in that situation though.
Anyways, I’m going off track. As far as I’m concerned, the movie was very well made, and, as an added bonus, features a complete soundtrack by Eddie Vedder. That’s enough in itself to qualify as a good movie. As we all know (from many long hours locked in a depressing classroom), the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra! The little extra for this movie is the lessons learned and the mystery of this man, Christopher McCandless, whose story has made so many people stop and think. I think that his fatal flaw was his drastic underestimation of nature. Maybe he was looking too much at the beauty of nature and not thinking about how violent it really is. People in Alaska think it’s ridiculous that somebody could die of starvation in the middle of summer 20 miles away from the highway. (I read that somewhere, and I’m almost certain i’ve paraphrased it all wrong, but you get the idea) Nobody really knows what happened to him or what he was thinking, but we are a society that loves to speculate.
The bottom line: he went for it. He lived his life the way that he wanted and that’s very respectable. I think it’s very important for people to live without worry of how people would judge. Dream big and go for it; even if it kills you, you will, at the very least, have died living your dream.
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