Annoying...

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2008)

Although I appreciated the cinematography and characterization of my home state, I found very little to appreciate in the story itself. Let's see...protagonist is born to well-off parents, protagonist discovers he was born a bastard (but not raised a bastard), protagonist gets a good education without having to worry about student loans. Because protagonist decides his parents are monsters and the cause of his so-very-hard life, he chucks his education and family away in favor of communing with nature in Alaska. With so many people having been raised by parents who molest them or beat the crap out of them or grow up in abject poverty or all of the above, I find that I have no sympathy for protagonist and his "problems." There were a lot of people in the world who would have gladly traded parents with protagonist and appreciated what they got instead of whining about the little they didn't get.