Comments on: Into The Wild, and story of Christopher McCandless https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/03/review-into-wild/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: James Murray-White https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/03/review-into-wild/#comment-412 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:59:20 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/2008/03/04/review-into-wild/#comment-412 Farley Mowat is a hero of mine – a great guy & great writer. Even though he had all these adventures, there is a blending of imagination too. And K if you think the guy in ‘Into The Wild’ was a selfish, spoiled brat, then you should watch Herzog’s documentary (reviewed here) ‘Grizzly Man’ …..

http://greenprophet.com/2008/01/05/63/review-of-grizzly-man/

interesting anthropological/anthropocentric dilemma really – do we do it for ourselves, or do we do it for the earth? (or as Lennon once wisely said, “why don’t we [just] do it in the road?” ….

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/03/review-into-wild/#comment-410 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:12 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/2008/03/04/review-into-wild/#comment-410 Two Against the North, a Farley Mowet book scared the hejeebers out of me. It’s about what happens when you’re in a canoe and accidently go down the wrong pike. It’s real (in the fiction sense), not something the characters set up to suffer on purpose.

For some reason it seems like men today create these scenarios artificially. They like dancing with death. Into The Wild was about a guy who was a selfish spoiled brat. I was just thinking of this poor guy’s family the whole time, thinking: how can he run away and do that to them?

]]> By: James Murray-White https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/03/review-into-wild/#comment-411 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:21:52 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/2008/03/04/review-into-wild/#comment-411 many thanks for all your comments, Michelle. See you on the streets of the holy city sometime soon, I’m sure…..

]]> By: michelle4jerusalem https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/03/review-into-wild/#comment-413 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:12:38 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/2008/03/04/review-into-wild/#comment-413 Do I not know you, James? Anyway, interesting thesis about how it’s always men in these situations. I couldn’t finish the book OR the film. Read 3/4 or more of the book and was totally traumatized. That is scarier that Stephen King. It is hard to imagine a woman who would go to such extremes. The people I know hibernating alone on pieces of land in Arizona and Oregon are all men. Women are more likely to need others around them enough to come back to town. But I would be interested to hear if there were women like this. Just now I’m thinking of Two Old Women, another Alaska story, with two women surviving alone in the middle of nowhere. This one is inspiring though. Check it out.

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