| Posted by: nick at March 15, 2008, 2:03 pm | | Topic: INTO THE WILD Forum: groupsrv | | On Mar 15, 3:16�pm, william wrote: Quote:On Mar 15, 3:03 pm, Alric Knebel wrote: �For another, there's a thin line between adamantine idealism and mental illness; so there's that. What spiritual discovery? To me, this was the flip side of Agnes Varda's Vagabond. Vagabond was the depressive down to Into The Wild's manic up. Into The Wild should have been shot as a film noir. How anybody finds Into The Wild valuable beyond its obvious cautionary tale quality escapes me. Williamwww.williamahearn.com I think the *manic up* might be illusory, whether Penn intended that or not--a surface level hippie Jesus freak retro-love generation flick masking cautionary noir subtexts. It's telling that in the Iconoclasts episode on The Sundance Channel devoted to Christopher McCandles and Into the Wild, Penn and Krakauer concede the possibility that McCandless' larger goal may have been celebrity and a book deal. He sure didn't plan on spending the rest of his years in the wild. And Krakauer says Alaskans think McCandles was a fucking idiot. Into the Wild is a excellent film that sends out mixed messages, which isn't a bad thing. |
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