Looking back at the previous review of "into the wild", it has been two years, and the first time I watched the film was seven years ago! Time, fate, such things are really mysterious when you think about them carefully. If there is any change in these seven years, maybe the movie itself has already given me the answer.
I have always believed that a person's childhood determines the trajectory and direction of a person's life, and all the possibilities that will be encountered in the future have been screened out in childhood. In "wild", the heroine Cheryl is exhausted on the road and looking forward to a ride. Although a reporter who stopped by indifferently and impolitely determined that she must be a homeless, he also used his mouth to tell the various Most of the people wandering in the wilderness have experienced family or career hardships. Including the hippie couple Cheryl met while hitchhiking, who also lost their 8-year-old son. In this way, it also answers why it is so similar to the Alex situation of "into the wild". They were just two ordinary people out of so many lost hearts. The completely different endings may also divide these people into two categories, successful self-salvation or complete exile.
Alex has an excellent family background, and he is also extremely good and intelligent. The children from this middle-class elite family should have followed the established path and become a so-called successful person, but because of the disharmony of their parents, he is sensitive and vulnerable in his heart. Go into the wilderness, trying to get away from the adult world full of lies and hypocrisy. It is very popular now to say that "the main problem is too little reading and too much thinking". Alex has read a lot of books under the background of high-quality education in the past, but he has also fallen into the typical entanglement of Wenqing. No one answered his doubts, and it seemed that the answer could only be found in the vast sea of books and the unfathomable nature.
In contrast, Cheryl did not have a good material growth environment. She suffered from an alcoholic father and a childhood full of violence and fear, but fortunately, her mother is a very optimistic and strong woman, who gave her the greatest support and dependence, and even After middle age, Yu went to her daughter's school to study again, where she was full of singing and laughter. And her mother is also the bond between Cheryl and her younger brother. Where there is her, the affection is overflowing. Because of this irreplaceable role, after her mother died of cancer, she fell into a situation where she couldn't extricate herself. It's just that every child is the same, always afraid of mom and dad knowing when they do bad things, so Cheryl sees mom every time she pampers herself. Perhaps subconsciously, she was proving that she was still alive through depravity. After her husband couldn't bear it any longer, she divorced, and she also aborted her unknown child, and was finally alone. Leaving the wilderness, starting alone without much experience, even men find it difficult. This kind of ascetic walking is just to find the lost part of oneself, in the wilderness, in the vastness. Like Alex, they're both "wild" except that Alex walks in and never comes out. And Cheryl finally reached the bridge of God, not so much to be redeemed, but to finally reconcile with herself.
They all have incomplete and frightened childhoods, and they also choose to walk into the real nature and isolate themselves from the world. Why is there such a big difference in the ending? I've often wondered, in the end, if he hadn't died in an accident, would Alex have found the answer he was looking for? Can you complete this difficult self-rescue? Shouldn't be. The warmth of friendship, family and love that he encountered on the road before failed to impress him, and even the discussion of religion and philosophy on the top of the mountain failed to help him see the sun. But Cheryl couldn't help crying because of a song sung for her by a little boy she met in the depths of the forest. She finally let go of her arms and let go of her defenses. She finally admitted her mother's departure and began to walk out of the shadows of the past. Alex burned cars and money at the beginning of his journey, and desperately wanted to cut off all contact with the material world of the past, but Cheryl kept in touch with her ex-husband, friends and younger brother along the way because of her worries. What might save her is her involvement with the secular world. The extreme paranoia made Alex unable to see the damage to his family after he left. The desperate search and crying and prayers of his elderly parents were actually his last straw, but he was ruthlessly blocked.
We face not only books and nature, but a worldly life that is worth learning from, even if it may make us feel dirty and hypocritical a lot of the time. But blocking any of them may close a door out of the labyrinth and eventually become a trapped beast. The way of great concealment is to be in the middle without worrying about the noise. This may be what each of us mortals need to practice for a lifetime. If you don't give the world a chance, don't give yourself a chance, the life-saving elixir you once thought will become a life-threatening poison.
Begin to learn to forgive, so I am also redeemed.
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