Beautiful, yet so tragic

Rating: 8/10 (21 March 2008)

This disillusioned young man had so many offers of acceptance along his travels of the US and Mexico, yet he was so damn obsessed with "going to Alaska" that he simply turned them down and moved on. He thought that he could simply "live off the land" during the summer months in Alaska, and then simply move on to another adventure of his life. He enjoyed many beautiful scenes of nature that many of us will never experience, yet he was doomed to perish sooner or later in these new locations. If his Waterloo was not Alaska, it would be some other remote location. This basic difference in people was best shown in Christopher's scene with the old man in the desert: the old man hid in the desert in his tidy home for most of his adult life to deal with the bad hand his life had dealt him, yet Christopher rejected his offer of adoption and moved on aimlessly. Sad.