Life is Not......Like This

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2012)

This movie is based on a true story. I thought it would be full of Philosophical truths and some old hippy "wisdom". Its not. The story is actually ..a little ridiculous. Clever college graduate has a less than perfect up--bringing (parents quarreling etc.), and he is SO upset, he goes on the road---to seek truth. His dream is to go to "freezing Alaska", to see if he can tame that barren wilderness, while searching for the truth. He cant---he freezes to death. This is a --flashback movie--and thats O.K. The use of music here is very annoying. A song is sung (with lyrics that suit the scene the audience is watching) ...just in case the viewers are dumb. Our hero Alex, goes through many adventures and meets amazingly "nice hippy type people". The only violence in the movie is when Alex gets kicked around after a railway hard nut chucks him off a freight train. In the end Alex finds the "Truth". Happiness only really happens...when it is shared. (How original .!!) This is a heavily sanitized version of "The Truth", and simply not satisfactory.