just a kid who made bad choices in life

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2009)

If you look into the real story of Chris McCandless you will see that he was a kid, with some mental probs, that made some very bad choices in life. The movie by sean penn glamorizes his useless death in he Hollywood way. I guess I should not put all the blame on penn though, he did not write the book. The book which had many inaccuracies, one of which is that Chris was poisoned by seeds. No toxins were found in the food in Chris's bus. He simply starved to death because he was did not know how to survive in the wild. He was only a days hike away from one of the busies roads in Alaska. Since the movie has come out many, many people have made this hike with no problems. Chris was simply a kid with some mental health issues that were not treated. The movie glamorizes an idea that Hollywood types like penn like in theory. Down with commercialization, the money spun world of greed, money money money. You know its all bad mentality. Of course I don't see penn giving away all his money to charity like Chris did. WOnder why??