Good scenes but a way too religiously subjective plot.

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 2008)

I thought the plot was empty. The main character feels he needs to travel the world and leave his home because he is a 'bastard' child along with his sister who has parents who he finds out are not married and always fight. His whole life is based off his parents not being married and fighting with not much other motivation for what he does in the movie. He comes across to me as a weak character, and the plot fails to bring him out of this description for me. There were hundreds of symbols to God throughout the movie; sun beaming down on him in key moments, the 'mountain of salvation' scene, the end of the movie where he dies appearing to look like Jesus himself because he is starved, suffering, grows a beard, sun beaming down on him yet again... to name a few out of the many dozens. The abnormal amount of religious and Christian references was too much to handle for a plot. The movie succeeded and will probably appeal to Christians because the movie can be considered teetering on the edge of 'bad' because they say "fuck" throughout the movie and there is nudity that an average religious person can giggle at. There are cool scenes too where he brutally chops up a large moose to eat but it ends up being swarmed by flys who lay maggots on it (why he didn't prepare for such a kill is beyond me). Kayaking scene and lots of wildlife scenes are cool too. At 2.5 hours long I can only recommend this for religious types.