Another boring pretentious counter culture movie

Rating: 4/10 (6 March 2008)

The great Writers, Photographers, Painters, Poets have toiled and struggled for centuries to understand life. Their joy and pain and happiness and suffering is all there for us to study. Instead what do some people do, they hero worship a fool like McCandless.
It irritates me that Sean Penn needs to idealize Christopher McCandless and his little adventure. I don't doubt Penn's skills as a filmmaker but I think his ideas are somewhat pretentious. Penn does not make an attempt to truly understand the psychology of what appears to be a very disturbed young man, instead he tries to suggest that 'Supertramp' is some sort of messianic character.
Nature, like life, does not suffer fools well and making heroes of people like Christopher McCandless just distracts us from the journey that centuries of civilization has been partaking in-- Life. - PCL