Into the Wild
This weekend, I got Into the Wild
Now, I'm no fan of Sean Penn. I think he's a self-righteous left-wing moonbat. I'm also not one to sympathize with hippies of any generation. What I can say, though, is that Penn did an amazing job telling this story. I ended up caring about the main character despite what I truly thought or felt about his motives or his approach to life and society.
I think Amazon.com nailed it when they included in their review:
It'd be easy to either idealize McCandless as a genuinely free spirit, unencumbered by the societal strictures that tie the rest of us down, or else dismiss him as a hopelessly callow naïf, a fool whose disdain for practical realities ultimately doomed him. Into the Wild does neither, for the most part telling the tale with an admirable lack of cheap sentiment and leaving us to decide for ourselves.
The only issue that bugged me at all was that on a couple occasions, and especially the first of the two, the main character acknowledged the presence of the camera, which should not happen in a movie such as this.
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