Real art is not a form, it creates its own form

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2007)

I have never seen a movie like this before. Just to be clear, this is a unique amazing movie, but mostly it is the story and the man that makes the movie. One can wonder about the reality of this movie and this man, but something amazing happened in this guy's life in his short 24 years on planet Earth.
Go see the movie before you read the rest of this or any of the mostly idiotic posts always present on IMDb, this movie demands it, and you certainly deserve it. Even if it rubs you the wrong way, it is a very human movie, and a very human experience to watch it.
Christopher McCandless was a puzzle, obviously, at least to us the viewers of this presentation of his life. He has a pull towards confronting nature and reality in the form of nature. Probably his philosophical side, and probably his disappointment in people, the people closest to him, his family, the people who gave him their reality.
Christopher apparently wanted to make his own reality, and this is where I can relate to him as a human being. He got caught. It was too much for him ... just so barely though it looks like. What would he be like today if he had lived? Does the myth and the meaning to the rest of us only have power because he died? He died so alone, and yet he knew love and life and had the courage to live like few people.
Very great movie, all the great contributions from everywhere came together to create a really powerful movie. This kid gets in your head and you share his life with him, he becomes part of all of us ...the part we do not have the guts to live, and the part that led to his demise too, or might have led elsewhere.
The picture of Christopher at the end shows what must have been a really great human being. Thanks for existing, and thanks to all who brought this man to life for the rest of us.