What a slow pointless movie

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2011)

Definitely a Sean Penn directed movie. Moody and with a few nice shots.
The story is poor though. Posh, well educated boy drops out and becomes a self acclaimed 'Supertramp'. He selfishly doesn't let his parents or sister know where he is and then dies a pointless death. I'm not sure what the lesson is in the film. Particularly irking is the short time he spends in a hostel where we see the 'real' homeless people wandering around zombie like. Oh no that's not for our Supertramp he's much better than that! I grew to despise his character the longer the film went on and was actually laughing when he realised he had eaten the poisonous plant, oh dear what a shame, never mind. I was reminded of the words of Jarvis Cocker 'You can call your Dad and stop it all'.
Don't bother watching