"Into the Wild"

I always depend on instinct at most of my daily encounters.  When I saw the cover of this young man sitting on top of the bus, I had that instinct that the story in itself is what I’ve long been wanting to see… there’s something beyond that look… so I grabbed it. 
I got hooked at the first few scenes of it… This movie must have something relevant to tell that I haven’t seen in any of the previous movies I’ve seen… What is he looking at?  That was the question lingering into my mind…
Thanks to Lakwatserong Ticsay for watching it first…

Into the Wild is the true story of Chris McCandless, a good kid from a prosperous but unhappy family, who left home, burned his money, changed his name to Alexander Supertramp and in 1992 walked off into the Alaskan wilderness. He died there of starvation 16 weeks after he arrived. What was he looking for?  

What was it about what McCandless did that got to you?

PENN: I really think that we shouldn’t just accept rites-of-passage opportunities as they come, because what we’ll find is that they don’t come in our world anymore. And we shouldn’t look at them as a kind of luxury or romantic dream but as something vital to being alive. McCandless quotes somebody else in the movie: “If just once you put yourself in the most ancient of circumstances …” This is where nature comes into it–and I think that Eddie and I share this feeling–that every sober-minded person of any belief would probably agree that the biggest issue is quality of life. You’ve gotta feel your own life to have a quality of life, and our own inauthenticity, our corruptions, get in the way of that. The wilderness is relentlessly authentic.
- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1661699,00.html

Nature-lovers will definitely love it but I’ve loved the story and the journey and the touching message at the end of it…  “Society” alienates people… and silence and experience will bring you back to your own life.
ABSOLUTE FREEDOM…. I’m into that.. hoping I would have that journey very very soon… 

The soundtrack is cool!!!