i know the guy had a message about being free and whatnot but seriously? he went to alaska and basically committed suicide because he had no clue what he was doing and thought he was just going to be the arctic tarzan?
i know we are all too dependent on material possessions but i think he could have found a better way...
it was so sad when he was eating the plants he thought were edible and then realized he poisoned himself..
and extremely gross when he killed the moose but couldn't butcher it in time and the maggots started coming out everywhere.
anyway, this movie makes me even more into civilization and material items, and definitely not ever into traveling into the wild.
so pretty much, you can watch this movie and be depressed afterwards, but it is really good, and the main actor is hot, until he goes insane and starves to death, but you could just stop watching and disregard that part if you wanted.
i hope there are hundreds of hot men in aruba, and not the kind that will try to abduct me, only the kind who want to buy me things and give me drinks from a coconut that they have not put drugs into.
I loved that movie! But I agree- a little extreme, but it puts things into perspective and really makes you think about how reliant we are on so many things that we really don't need...
and eddie vedder did the soundtrack, which is amazing :)
ok, first of all i don't really like sean penn either. thanx (e:joshua). and i have seen the grizzly man, and i stick to my point that both men were crazy, the grizzly man more so.
Apparently "Happiness is an altered state of dreaming" or some such thing. I saw that on the wall of the AKA gallery,
I loved this movie; found it very moving and in many ways I am envious of Chris (played by hottie Emile Hirsch, for those interested). His death and expression of what he learned up to that point is poignant- happiness is not meant to be experienced alone. I dig that.
Oh dear, I think I will never understand these morbid traits. :/
Oh, and Tim Treadwell liked to video record everything - it turned out that he managed to record his own death, but only the audio portion. For some reason the video portion got ruined.
Fuck Sean Penn. Anyway there is another story similar to this, and equally true, involving a guy named Timothy Treadwell. Werner Herzog created a documentary about him called Grizzly Man - essentially for many summers he went and lived among the grizzlies in remote Alaska. His last summer he AND his girlfriend were killed and eaten by bears.
I love that movie the girl next door I should really re-watch it soon.
The effective antidote might be "The Girl Next Door" :::link:::
I think Tim Olyphant's character makes it completely worth seeing. Hahaha
I haven't seen the movie, but I so find Emile Hirsch a VERY attractive man.
Sean Penn is often associated with the most disturbing movies...
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Thoreau
You know, I really like Thoreau's Walden (partly because it wasn't required reading and I read it when I was supposed to be reading other required stuff). This movie now sounds like Thoreau-gone-awry to me.
Hmm...Felly and I watched this movie and I think that in a way, it is meant to make you feel bad. I think that this guy, I forget his name, was on to something and had really good ideals. I think where he went wrong was that he not only secluded himself from civilization and material things, but from all people. I don't think human beings can survive without human beings. That and he was, admittedly, a well-off kid who might have been a little pompous and naive about his abilities to survive in the wild.
I am so glad you decided to post an honest review of the movie here. This was on my to-watch list but I don't think I like the storyline at all. I think I want to live and die in the midst of people, not in some crazy wilderness after finding "peace".