To the limits and far beyond

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2015)

Just saw the video yesterday night. I preferred that from a Friday night stroll and was right. It is surely a movie that one can hardly forget. Reading other reviews, it's also highly controversial. It's a story that brings human nature to its extremes, human nature face to Nature. This is what I think it is mostly about. The human challenges the Nature in so many ways. Usually he challenges it by abusing and destroying. Chris challenges it by trying to impose his presence in an environment where Nature, not humans prevail. No matter how good are the purposes of one, he should not exceed his limits. Many commented that on Chris being a brat having a senseless, useless end. Many people on this planet have really senseless deaths. Children dying from bombardments or famine have definitely a senseless death. This death was not senseless. It was the pay for one's struggle to the limits and far beyond. This story also challenges the American society. This is why Americans love it so much or despise it. It describes its dead-ends, its predominant materialism. At the time of illustrating a sick society, it is a formidable testimony of what a GORGEOUS place the territory called United States is. I really fell now the need to visit it more than ever. I had seen Hachi one month ago and now this and I can tell 'reality is far more magic than imagination'