Into The Wild= awsome flick

[AD]

He was desperate, deranged and terribly unprepared, so I doubt he was in the right frame of mind to find an anecdote.

all he needed was wikipedia!

[Davey Boy 2.0]

... or an antedote

[Davey Boy 2.0]

dang you AD, i knew i was going to have to be fast...

[Jaimoe]

McCandless was a funny man.

[Hal Johnson]

Maybe all he really needed was a good anecdote. Afer all, as Readers Digest likes to point out when doing a number two, Laughter is the best Medicine.

[M.O.B.E]

Im sure sitting around in a bus in the middle of nowhere laughing is just what he needed it might have saved his life.

[FunkyBeats]

As I expected the movie glamourized the main character, unlike the book, but the real question is why did they leave out the fact that if he had went the other direction (~1 km) at the river he would have found a wire that you could cross the river in a bucket. That drives home the reality of survival in the wild. Luck is your friend.

FunkyBeats.

Edited March 18, 2008 by Guest

[allison]

I still don't understand the ending. He ate the plants that poisoned him yet he could still get up and move around to find food. Why didnt he try to find an antedote? Everything in nature has an antedote and its usually found pretty close-by where the offending plant was. I guess he didnt get that far into his book.

The theory in the book is that McCandless ate the seeds of the wild potato plant as the season wore on and he became hungrier.The particular enzyme /toxin or whatever in the seeds has no antidote really...the effects can only be borne out and survived by being in fairly good shape to begin with and /or consuming alot of sugars and proteins to clean it out of your system.

Otherwise...it blocks you absorbing energy from your food.On a full stomach you still starve.

As to the rope line 1km away...well there were also cabins near by too.Luck may have a part in surviving in the wild...but bringing a map would have helped a great deal to.

[Demsky]

Dimafleck is a pretty selfish guy himself. He just doesn't realize it

[andru.]

Dima, stop saying the same shit over and over. I must have heard you talk about how selfish that guy is three times. Get some new material and come outside.

[boiler]

Alex/Chris did very well in the Alaska and he probably would have made it if not for the potatoe seeds. They think it was a mould that grew on the seeds that basically starved him, even if he ate all day.

This goes without saying but the book explains things a lot better, especially the dual life Chris' father led, with two families and the type of pressure his family put on Alex. So selfish, maybe, but not without reason.

I don't think people worshiped the ground he walked on. The people he met had a lot of respect for him. He was obviously very intelligent, personable and had wisdom perhaps beyond his years.