Thanks a lot my brand new friend Sean.
Thanks Eddie for make my mistakes turn into gold.
And thanks Mr. Supertramp for giving me the truth!!!!!
M�xico City.

If you take the time to read through all these comments you'll realise that most of you are spoilt whingeing Americans who have no idea how lucky you are. Society isn't perfect in the Western world but consider if you had been born into poverty like the majority of people in the world. Sure Chris's story is tragic and i was moved when i read the book, but he was also blessed and in many ways selfish, somethign i think maybe he realised towards the end. May he rest in peace.

I absolutely love the story. It has opened up new things in me. It is beautiful. But, I do have a problem with it. This story is about a man who left everything behind. He wanted the true wild. The beauty of just life in itself. Nothing fake, nothing but the glory and sheer weightlessness of life itslef that you can't get anywhere but nature. He never stayed long, he just wanted himself. Though I love the story, I don't think that this man, Chris McCandless, would have wanted his adventures published and made into a film for the masses whom he tried to avoid in the first place. I just think that his story, his life should have stayed in the Alaskan airs that he last breathed. The airs that he searched his entire life to find.

I still lovve this story, don't get me wrong!! I will never forget it, but that's my oppinion.

Even if he wanted his story told to the masses, I think that he may have wanted to tell it his way. He seemed like that to me. For example, in chapter 5 this comment is made about Jack London, "He [McCandless] was so enthralled by these tales, however, that he seemed to forget they were works of fiction, constructions of the imagination that had more to do with London's romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in the subarctic wilderness. McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the Noerth and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty, a fateous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print."
Yes, the speaker is try to put through the fact that McCandless did not REALLY know everything that he was getting into as a fact, but that was not right to say. This is an insult, in my oppinion, McCandless. He based the majority of his life on the adventures and beauties expressed in these Jack London tales. He searched for the beaty of life expressed into these stories. Bringing up this fact of Jack London is almost a slap in the face to Chris McCandless. No one is perfect... everyone knows that. McCandless wanted to find a world like the ones formulated by Jack London. Where all of the sad things and miscomings of the world could be shed. And at last, there could be solitude.


Okay... thanks for listening.

I want the things that Chris McCandless gained through his adventures. Maybe I can just relate to him a little too much...

This has to be one of the best, if not the best movie i have ever seen... Being a 21 year old 'anti-working class hero ', a revolutionary in my own mind - Chris's story and outlook on life reminds me all too much of myself, I was in complete awe throughout watching the movie. The absolute brilliance of this movie, the beauty, the simple truth of human existence... If all the people in the world could be more like some of those great minds including John Lennon, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Oprah and Chris who all share a thing in common- the knowledge, or rather richness of their souls because they strive for utter freedom, peace and beauty on earth. Praise God, praise the magnificent beauty and wonder in everything around us !!!

There have been much debate about this film recently on the Web. But most of the people I have talked with simply love the story for its social criticism, beautiful pictures and lovely soundtrack. We does not only feel a special care about the main figure, but it just makes you wana run off, they say. The pieces just fall in. However, locals in Alaska and some journalist and academical experts have not been so friendly. And more and more critic is appearing on Internet, saying that the first book "Into the Wild" by the author Jon Krakauer and the later movie (with the same name), directed by Sean Penn, has romanticized the story. For example, there are today new evidences that proves that Chris had 300$, a regional map and a social security (new documentary on Chris McCandless) card with him in his last journey, and that he was not killed by eating wild potato's. Instead he was killed by slow starvation. They are even evidences saying that he broke his right arm or ankle weeks before his death, hindering him from swimming over the river and escape. Other go further, as Craig Medred writes in his intresting article (available at http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/10/13/media-watch/into-the-wild-the-false-being-within/), the young traveler was not searching for himself, he has loosing himself. The author also asks "did Alexander Supertramp cover Chris McCandless with a hallucinatory veil under which he succumbed to death by starvation?" From the begining to the end, it was all a self-destructing voyage, where one personality (Alexander Supertramp) took over the other personality (Chris McCandless). In other words, the author means that Chris was killed by a deamon inside himself.
These facts, hypothetical questions and conclusions about how he died and about mental illness, schizophrenia and daemons can be discussed. They are important and gives us more openings to our quest in understand the events and this figure. But after all, I wonder, why we are in such a hurry in demystifying this lovely journey and person that gives meaning to so many other? Is the story and Chris such a dangerous treat to our society? A treat to our existing values? To our comfort? To the false being withing? It may be so...and maybe that is the meaning of it all. Everyone can take a look at the smiling pictures from Chris wilderness trip in Alaska (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDRy6fmcSzA&feature=related). Most of us must admit, in a concluding sens, and with some jealousy in our hearths; this person was not sick or disorientated. Instead, what we really see in these pictures is an empowered young man, with courage and joy, who knew perfectly what he was doing. Chris McCandless or Alexander Supertramp, whatever, they lived together in all circumstances, fighting against a spiritual empty world, creating their own myth. And maybe that is what we all have to do. Because the phenomenon of myth making is essential in gaining mental health, particularly in our age of materialism and anxiety. As the existential psychologist Rollo May says "myths give significance to our existence". Hence, it was NOT Chris McCandless who was suffering from schizophrenia, it was the Society he was living in. And when societies fails in giving us a clear picture of "what we are and what we ought to be," as Matthew Arnold puts it, we are thrown back on the search for ourselves. This is what happened to Chris McCandless, he transformed himself to the myth of Alexander Supertramp. Unfortunately, the myth ends in tragedy. But what is more important? The road we are running or the end itself? The answer is quite simple. Nobody, except Chris himself, have the right to answer that question. But blaming his own death on his own subjectivness and myth (Alexander Supertramp) may be more dangerous than letting this individual write his own lifestory and destiny.

First off, Thank you Jon Krakauer & Sean Penn for this story & movie. It hit's home on several levels. I too spent time in the wild as you person, living in Baja for almost a year on my own. Not as harsh as Alaska bush, but nevertheless fending for myself. That journey shaped me into who I am today.
Now I find myself on the other side of the fence as a parent. The movie helped open my eyes towards my own son, and the "expectations" we have for our children. Nothing extreme, but expections none the less. I have to be careful with that. I think I need to be there more for guidance in whatever path my son takes, not push him in a direction. I will work hard on that. Ironic I'm writing this on Father's Day. I finally watched the movie last night after reading the book about 2 years ago. I loved it then, and what a great job of putting the story in the movie. Kudos Sean Penn! I have the trailer music from the DVD playing in the background as I type. It's a great loop! I think I'm buying the soundtrack today, as a Father's Day gift to me. Thanks Me!

Wow. This story is amazing. It really hits home.

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A part of me have always wanted to dis-engage from the spiritually blind, one-eyed, crass material civilization and head to some remote isolated place in the mountains.

However, I wonder to what extent can we abandon the modern civilization. How ironic is the fact that in the end it was a Bus and a Gun, (both products of modern technology) that proved to support Chris most in his days in the wild.....

True, modern civilization is for the most part a sick and morally dead civilization but I think we should still not be ungrateful and appreciate whatever good it has to offer. Especially there are many people who care for us and accept us for what we are. If we cannot give them happiness, perhaps we should not give them sorrow either.... God Bless You All.

Sometimes I'm lost about how I can get the perfection of the happiness meaning. It's my way for affording a ridiculous side to see the life without an easier conclusion about some obvious mistake. How is my big deal for understanding that the life occurs at the same time of my crave for building an ilusion inside of a fake perception. Live without love is live without life.

Trust, surely, is something more important when it is starting inside of your thinkings and inside of your own person. Today I was very deeply in my self reflexion. I took a ride in my thinkings, in my fucking reality for figuring out all my days, my sad days, that I've had with no love. So, I'm now a poor human being that has left the whole direction to the destiny.

Feel hurt is not a solution for my problems, may be a repeated way for write again the paradigm of stucking at the time. An advice: Keep people around of you, but just the true people and make something quickly for your friendly ilusions. How do happy I have been when I thought that everything was going fine, was perfect? I LEARNT today, once again I learnt, that the freedom is something hardly to reach. So, let's being prepared for that adventure of being alive.