This film gives hope.

Rating: 10/10 (1 August 2008)

I've never felt compelled to right a review from IMDb until I watched this film. It finished about 15 minutes ago but it will take me a long time to stop feeling what I am now.
It is the true story of a young man who has (had)an overwhelming urge to live a life in complete contrast to the one his college education and parents were preparing him for.
He needed to feel alive, something a career, a mortgage and 2.4 children would not allow him. But most of all he didn't want to live a life that would mould him into his parents image.
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted this mans journey was as profound and as tragic (he discovered he could only be happy if he found someone to share his life with) as anything I have read or seen.
As part of a generation lost to the shallow culture of consumption and celebrity I could not have identified with this film more. It has given me hope that there are people still making material (pardon the pun) like this.