Not a life to be proud of...

Rating: 5/10 (6 May 2008)

First of all,my deepest sympathies with the McCandless family. As for the movie, I think we first ought to take in consideration the "extraordinary" life chris led.. I for one, do not relate with him on most grounds. Although I can say that I do have a wanderlust and would like to travel as much as chris did, but my holidays wont be executed in a similar way as chris. I can never understand why chris left his family(essentially his sister)? or why he found it appropriate to form a bond with hippies instead of corresponding with his family even once. I do not have sympathy for a person who goes all alone into Alaska unprepared.I do not have sympathy for a person who longs to live in the wild, but lacks common sense, hunting and cooking skills. Most importantly, we all face problems in life, but I consider it cowardly to run away from them like this. As for Direction and all, I think the movie lost it with the Emile hirsch-staring-into-the-camera tactic.. It was way too long(at least half an hour should have been chopped off) and the sequence shown with Hal holbrook or katherine keener for that matter were not all that impressive. The finest part was the last ten minutes, where Chris realizes his mistake, where all the ppl he had met are shown in a dream sequence, in fact its the ending that forced me to give it a 5 rating.