The Tyranny in life.

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2008)

There are several things in our lives that we do not choose and these things therefore have the potential to be experienced as tyrannical elements of our life. Our parents and society could be two suggestions. We do not choose them ourselves but we really don't have other alternative but to accept them and try and get along. Or what? For the young man Christopher McCandless there is an alternative. To quit it all and become a super-tramp with the ultimate goal of "going into the wild". The Wild is in this particular instance Alaska.
For Chris this alternative way of dealing with the tyranny of his life also means that he for some reason does not tell anybody that he will split and live his life as a vagabond. He just leaves without a word to anybody and even takes on a new identity (Alexander Supertramp) in order not to be located (maybe this change in name could also be seen as an attempt to change his identity on a psychological level). I have been thinking much about this and my conclusion is, that he either left without saying because he was afraid that if so his parents would and could persuade him not to leave or else he didn't tell them because he in some way wanted to hurt them. Either way we don't know this as it was not explored in depth and this also means that we really don't know how Chris felt about leaving everybody without saying a single word.
Without focus on this aspect I think that it is very tendentious picture that is drawn of Chris. I think that he was struggling much more with personal issues than was shown to us. How could he bear not to let his sister know that he was well?
I liked in particular those chance meetings Chris had along his way that developed into so much; that is a unique thing about traveling.
If you are in the mood for a slow, "small-stream" and poetic movie then I can recommend this movie without hesitation.
Regards Simon
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