What an idiot

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2008)

I was really looking forward to this film for months, but was ultimately left disappointed. Not only was it full of youthful, naive, bad poetry, which bordered on pretentious and annoying at times, I just didn't feel any empathy for the main character. Ultimately, I was left thinking "what an idiot" at the end and not particularly moved by his death. What did he expect crossing a river in winter and then expecting to be able to re-cross it in spring? To me, it seemed like an overly long telling of a Darwin Award story. And why do people who choose to 'give up on the modern world' still not mind using cars/petrol/tarmac/railways/canned food etc. etc. The story of the death of a naive, hypocritical student!