Adapted from a true biography "The Death of Alaska" tells the true story of an American college graduate who turned his back on civilized society, gave up everything, walked into the wild Alaska, lived a primitive life, and finally died there, more than any novel or story. Be real, shocking, reflective, and awakened.
From the 13th to the 21st, I watched the film more than 5 times. Yes, I watched this film for almost a week. This thrilling but extremely real film, no matter how brilliant a writer or a master screenwriter, can’t make it. Such a perfect story, because it is true and truly scary. I was completely shocked by this story. Although some people say that the original is better than the movie, I have not seen the original, but through the medium of the movie, I can reach the reality that the protagonist feels. This week, it seems like a world away. I am immersed in this story. In the truth, it is more shocking than many words that I have been touched, because it is true. I am willing to spend this week to pay homage to it and to the hero Christopher. I am willing to share his insights and awakening with him. I am willing to share this resonance with the biographer of the "Death of Alaska". I prefer to use this 6,000-word essay with all those who have seen movies or books. Friends share this kind of happiness, this is almost crazy happiness, yes, as Christopher wrote before his death: "The true happiness is being shared." . .
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hand-stripped skin goes civilization
do not want to say this film adaptation of the true story, in the end tell us how much of the truth of life, truth and love, and so the truth, the truth is better to put it more personal experience a deeper sentiment came
as the cynical alex, social revolt inspired by the wisdom of his admired Rousseau and so thinking elite nurtured human civilization, alone, into the unknown wilderness. but he're looking for a The truth is the truth of a life. If there is a spiritual pursuit, most people will try to search for it like him, but he has devoted his entire life, the entire life to the search for this truth.
He can take off the hide of the hypocritical civilized dogma-academic uniform, he can throw away the great product of industrial civilization that can only crawl in man-made places-the car, he can even burn the most authoritative thing in modern society. --Banknotes. In order to return to nature and regain the wild, he has to do too much. In short, he has to peel off layer by layer from his cognition, no, from the beginning of his becoming the fertilized egg of human civilization, this The so-called "civilized skin" which is superimposed by the huge civilization machine. It is
peeled off carefully, but it is the layer of hypocrisy. The biggest irony of human society lies in this "hypocrisy based on nature." "Sex". Is there anything more hypocritical to cover up nature and build civilization?
People gather by evading the threats of nature, accumulate civilization layer by layer, and finally naturally become an endangered and difficult to survive "species". Humanity Make every effort to conquer nature and drive nature to the corners of the edge. People living in high-density cities and skyscrapers have long forgotten nature, the nature that regresses step by step with the expansion of human civilization. That was once comfortable. The nature of
human beings. Is man really happy if he overcomes nature? Human beings are just reconstructing another cruel nature, colder nature-society! Steel and cement jungles, industrially polluted rivers, crowded and small cities In the gorge, people are more greedy and more animalistic under the cover of the skin of civilization. The animal nature of the beast is limited to the belly of the beast, while the animal nature of man has no limit. In addition to the belly of the fruit, there is too much to do. But then again, when did humans overcome nature?
Abandoned buses in the wilderness or the remnant green spaces in the industrial city, which is more beautiful, it is really difficult to answer.
Share, the last diary written by Alex before his death, share It is the real happiness. Sharing the happiness with family? Sharing the happiness with the crowd? Sharing the happiness with society? Sharing the happiness with nature? Sharing...
The escape of Alex is a natural return of modern society. Call, this is undoubtedly a fashion trend that poor people are talking about right now. But this person who returns to nature by himself, in 1992, the person who ended his self in the abandoned bus in the wilderness, is much greater. , Undoubtedly, his sentiment is unparalleled truth.
True phase
billion real hero of
this film is the last paragraph in Las Vegas alex's completely out of his previous life of the community and social life interspersed up period after graduation day wandering around, I think it is a real break with the social alex In the process, I gradually moved away from the city, away from my hometown, came to the farm, came to the salt-alkali land of Salt Lake City, and came to the gathering place of nomadic hippies. The fringe between the cities still has a human atmosphere, but it tends to be more primitive and free. He is trying to get rid of the "civilized skin" in this excessive way of life, including in the pasture and people inquiring about the knowledge of survival in the wild, how to deal with bacon, etc. The only thing in his mind is "into the wild" Even on this journey, the touching girl could not provoke his desire with her body and stopped him, and the old man in Salt Lake City, who influenced him with the love of his father, failed to make him his grandson and renewed. Returning to the family structure of people. As at the beginning, Alex’s sister stated that “he has always been a man who is very strict with his own morals”. He was indeed a rebellious Puritan by birth. His ending is inevitable. It
can be said that he His family is not the same as the indelible injuries that have been caused to him since childhood, but he is different from more children who have suffered the same family. On the contrary, his school grades are excellent, and most of the thesis topics are Concerned about African issues and other humanistic caring spirits. He has no bad habits. Apart from disdain for the hypocritical school culture and family culture, he has not done any bad things. He must have been conspiring for a long time. He has no bad habits. To escape, he must escape this hypocritical civilized society. At the beginning of the film, he just arrived in Alaska. When he was ecstatic when he found an abandoned empty bus and found that someone had lived here, he Climbing on the roof of the car, shouting "is everybody here?" to the surrounding forest and wild, and then answering "Guess not" by himself. I believe that this moment of his life is the freest moment in his life, and he finally believes that he is completely free Civilization. After learning how to call the wolf, he began to try to summon his wildness, the truth in nature, the truth hidden by civilization.
He writes a diary. He engraved his name and anniversary on the board. He may be out of excitement, or he may also want to leave a message for those who have been far away, leaving behind a hero who has faded from the "skin of civilization" and dare to share civilized society awakening final struggle heroes.
〇 vehicles - symbols of industrial civilization,
this house has a very important piece of props - automotive, industrial civilization of the symbols of both the previous alex small yellow bike broken car , Or a hippie’s RV, or a wheat harvester in a ranch, or even the abandoned bus in his last days, all cars. Cars extend industrial civilization, like flu or viruses, spread everywhere. Cars, Let civilization develop, make civilization complex, and make civilization crazy. The culture of vehicles (machines) is a concentrated expression of industrial civilization. Even in Alaska’s no man’s land, there is actually an abandoned bus, like a perpetual necrotic life in nature The scars of rust are like the remains of unknown ancient civilizations abandoned in the wasteland. This bus is a harbinger that modern industrial civilization will become another wreck. The most ironic thing is that when the university graduation ceremony is over, Alex actually lets My sister drove her car to see her parents, and had a dispute with her father when his father offered to reward him with a new car. Undoubtedly, his father's behavior made him feel extremely ridiculous and extremely angry, and he had already got rid of it. The impulse of civilization, sooner or later he will throw away the car, even the license plate. The car is not only meaningless to him, but also a civilized insult. So after a mudslide passed, he can finally throw it away and sink into the mud The car, threw away the license plate, and burned the banknotes. This paragraph is really enjoyable. He doesn't need a car, he just walks, and he doesn't want anything from his father. He has already begun to plan to break with this family and break with this society. .Just as he is not afraid to hurt his only sister he can trust, just as her sister’s monologue says that he knows her too well, borrowing his sister’s mouth, he said "he finds back the reality of self-existence" as the motive for fleeing. What people worry about most when they leave is nothing more than a love letter. A break like alex is so simple, ruining the logo, ruining the identity, ruining the trail, ruining all the traces of civilization. This is his greatness. Where!!!
〇Challenge the extreme
super Ronin Alexander, born in July 1990
When he wrote this word on a mirror with lipstick from a trash can in a bathroom in Arizona, he believed that he had been born again. He gave him the right to be born again.
"The only gift of the sea is its ruthlessness. waves
it will bring strong feelings of opportunity
Although I know little about the sea,
but I know that's the way it exists
also know the importance of its life
may not really strong, but to feel strong
at least once to measure yourself
at least in the oldest human environment to find a self
alone with numbness stones
using only their hands and brains to save self "
in the surf in California, he once again strengthened the true meaning of self-existence he pursued, he You need to measure yourself once in this life, even if it is enough. Of course, the waves on the beach were not dangerous enough, so he chose to drift. Rafting in the Grand Canyon of Colorado. The staff at the lucrative kayak management office told him that he had to wait 12 years to apply for a rafting qualification without a permit, or he would pay $2,000. He finally got rid of civilized society but wanted to go rafting. Rowing a boat here, there is such a ridiculous deal, to his deal, to his rules, to his helmet, he actually floated for a long time without any helmet and no drifting experience. Indeed, there must be someone who is not afraid of death. Only the spirit can survive the wild nature. I think he is cultivating again and again, no, it is regaining a kind of ability to adapt to nature, the ability of civilized mankind that has long been degraded. So he took the small canoe and kept drifting south. , And even entered the Mexican
original "Death of Alaska" through the spillway of the Morelos Dam . There is a passage that Chris wrote to the 80-year-old man who met during the trip.
"So many people live unhappy, but do not take the initiative to change this situation, because they are restricted by the life of safety, obedience, and conservatism... In fact, a safe future hurts the souls who are adventurous in people's hearts the most. Of the human souls, the most The basic core is his passion for adventure."
Whether it is the ultimate challenge to the body, or to limit the spirit of challenge, if people give up this most precious talents, and become numb hardship, it would be the biggest regret in life
billion civilization phobia
when alex pull the night train, When he came to a strange city the next day, when he got out of the railway station wall, he knew that he had returned to civilization, surrounded by a modernist city scene of steel and glass. He looked blank, all the pleasure of traveling was gone, as if he had entered a nightmare instead of waking up from it. Of course we can think that he has been "sleepwalking", living completely in the blank of escaping the illusion of civilization, but what about us? Aren't they also sleepwalkers, wandering around in the illusion of civilization. Who is lost, who is looking for. Alex seems to be suffering from civilization phobia, and this fear comes from civilization itself. He is afraid of civilization, he hates society, he is dizzy in the crowd, but we are accustomed to living in civilization, living indifferently, what civilization gives us, we accept whatever, and we have never made reflections and choices. This is the so-called civilization, the absolute advantage of the difference and the animal, after we have lost our natural wild and instinctive nature. Civilization nurtured us, or did we nurture civilization? Is nature far away from us, or are we far away from nature? In short, we humans have completely escaped from that natural nature, and have been civilized with self-satisfaction.
As the song Eddie Vedder sang "Society, you are a hotbed of madness, I hope you will not be alone without me". What Alex did was to find the truth hidden by civilization, the truth about human existence. Who can live such a philosophy, reveal the essence of human beings in a practical way. Philosophers cannot get rid of society and civilization, even if they are doing a kind of reflection, it is not thorough. It seems that only alex and the practitioners who live in seclusion are facing nature in the most sincere way, looking for the essence of long-lost people. It doesn't matter whether Alex is a Puritan or an ascetic monk. The important thing is that he is using his own way to realize with all his heart, whether he sees the end of the road or not, at least he dares to do it, even if he "measures himself once". Even at the shelter, he asked if he could apply for an ID card, but in the chaotic streets and restaurants at night, he immediately gave up the bed in the shelter and went to pull another train. While at the police station, he happened to see Bush’s statement on TV, "The world will not wait for you", and he realized again that he could not slack off, and could not give up this only opportunity, although he would be dragged by the villain-like police that night. Getting off the train, he was battered, and he headed toward the great Alaska without hesitation.
〇 Instinctively absent from the
"big game, very big game", when Alex shot and killed the biggest prey in his life-a reindeer in the wilderness of Alaska, he quickly ran back to the bus and wrote in his diary excitedly This sentence, that is a kind of original excitement. It is conceivable that the original barbarians would have such excitement when they captured a big prey. This excitement instinct is caused by the excitement of starvation and instinct. Excitement, this is more real than the excitement of winning the first prize in a lottery or picking up a diamond ring.
When he used a dagger to cut through the throat of that behemoth, split its chest, and held out the big and hot heart of a human head, he was truly restored to nature at this moment. Holding the heart, he walked into the wilderness, as if praying, more like offering sacrifices, offering sacrifices to civilization and offering sacrifices to nature. He laboriously held the huge deer head and the dismembered torso to the river, trying to dry the prey by the method of making bacon taught by the farm uncle. It must be storing food for the future. In this wild Alaska, alex, who has just got rid of civilization and regained its wildness, must be very difficult to live, just as difficult as other creatures. Here, he even lost the advantages of human beings. Those civilized advantages are worthless in nature. Although humans’ IQ is higher than that of all animals, a person facing nature alone, a society’s person loses precisely in adaptation. Natural instinct.
In the end, he failed to dispose of the meat fast enough, and let the flies lay eggs on it. After a while, the bacon was corrupted and covered with maggots. He frantically peeled away the covering moss and pulled out the rotten bacon. Maybe he shouldn’t run back to the bus to jot down the sentence after shooting the prey, maybe he shouldn’t hold his heart to sacrifice, maybe he shouldn’t go to the river to clean his blood-stained body before finishing the prey, maybe he It should be like a real beast, biting it straight up, eating raw meat, and then dragging the rest back to the den. Unfortunately, he is a human being. This is the price of civilization. People can no longer live alone in nature without the civilization and society on which they depend. He can only leave the meat to the hungry wolves and eagles, and watch them have a full meal. It is impossible for a man to be a savage animal anyway. He could only disperse after the wild beasts feasted, sitting in front of the prey's grave, and mourning alone in front of a cross he erected with a wooden stick. As he later wrote in his diary: "I feel the power of nature, which is not biased towards protecting humans. This place is barbaric and uncivilized. Those who are closer to the wilderness and animals than me are suitable for survival."
〇Despair
"I have experienced so many things. Now, I seem to understand what happiness is, living in a quiet retreat in the country, and doing simple and useful good deeds to people as much as possible, even though those people are not used to me doing this for them. Do a really useful job, finally rest, enjoy nature, read books, listen to music, love everyone around you. This is my interpretation of happiness. On top of these, with you as company, and perhaps ours Child, what else can a man desire?"
-Leo Tolstoy "Family Happiness"
After reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", he seems to have suddenly realized what he knows, no matter what it is The feeling must be so deep that he had the idea of going home for the first time in the months when he was wandering for more than a year until Alaska, so he packed up his clothes. The snow has melted, and the trees have become more luxuriant. The owls are still squatting quietly on the books, but the dry riverbed when they came, but now the waves are rough and become torrents. Looking at the mark he made when he came on the other side of the tree branch, the woolen hat knitted for him by the hippie aunt is still hanging there, but there is no way to come. He was at a loss. He thought about crossing the river. He stumbled and fell into the water and was almost washed away by the rapids. The river was too fast, and it must be impossible to swim. He has no retreat, he can only go back to the Wonder Bus. It was so heavy that day, and when the bus was dark, he put down his burden and finally wrote "Rained in-lonely, scared" in his diary. The encounter on this day I think is his second despair, even greater despair after the despair after the rotting reindeer-there is no way back. . .
〇Awakening
"When you forgive, you love.
And when you love, God's light shines on you.."
When bidding farewell to the 80-year-old man on the sand dunes, the old man said, "When you forgive, you will love, and when you love, the light of God will illuminate you." After that, Alex He used a sentence of "holy shit" to ridicule, perhaps to cover up the sadness of parting, he must have been immersed in the crazy dream of Alaska at that time. He can't forgive his parents, he can't forgive his past, he can't forgive more, he needs to return to nature and escape the evil civilized society. He can even refuse to love, yes, he left his only dear sister, he missed the beautiful tracy, he rejected the 80-year-old man who wanted to adopt him, he has gone too far, he missed loving him The person, he missed love, he missed happiness, this thing he has been looking for.
"Where are the fucking animals now? I'm hungry! I'm fucking hungry! I'm fucking hungry!......" The
shortage of food is so maddening, there is nothing to eat, he can only pass The limited book on wild plants went to find the roots of some plants, but he ate poisonous wild peas by accident. This fatal mistake made him eventually die. This kind of ending is for a person who lacks wild survival experience and enters Alaska without a map. For young people, it seems destined. When his body suddenly became unwell, as the symptoms described in that book: general paralysis, the diffusion of toxins caused nausea and vomiting. . . If you don't receive treatment, you will die from anorexia. The death is so absurd, so worthless, because it misjudged the texture of wild peas. "On the 100th day, I did it, but life is the weakest state...". At this time, he was skinny and pale, like a suffering Jesus. When I was unconscious, I went to hit the last bucket of water, and even the big brown bear I encountered mistakenly thought that he was not alive.
At this time, he was already weak to the extreme, and the time had come. He staggeredly picked up the pen, put on his eyes, and wrote in the middle of a book: "Happiness only real when shared", then he wept, he wiped his body, he put on his clothes, he got into his mother with her own hands With the sewn sleeping bag, he exhausted his last bit of strength to prepare for death. He looked out the window and looked directly at the sun. Numerous near-death cases revealed that when a person died, everything before his death would be quickly skipped in front of his eyes like a movie. The movie also inserted him into the arms of his parents at this time. After seeing the light from the pain of death, a tear of happiness slid from the corner of his eye, and he stopped breathing.
He left the last "sign" in the bus, which read
"I have had a happy life, thank the Lord.
Goodbye, and may the Lord bless you!"-Christopher Johnson McKendos " "
I have have the I HAD a Happy Life and Thank at the Lord.
Goodbye and May God Bless all! "- Christopher Johnson McCandless
I think he is not to blame for all the narrow sense God, but he really came to realize that mysterious and full of The truth of wisdom and love. He has exhausted all the costs and finally understands, "True happiness lies in sharing", the truth that we have heard numb, just as we have heard other similar and boring truths, What we ignore is often the truth, but it takes a big turn to understand. Shouldn’t civilization reflect on itself? Does civilization have a problem with the education of its people? People accept civilization, but people stay away from the truth and escape the truth. No matter how you will spend your life, if you awaken as early as possible, happiness will not be so hard to find.
Until 2.21.2008 in Paris
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The favorite sentence of society in the original soundtrack of the movie
Society, you're A Crazy Breed, the I Hope you're not the without Me Lonely .......
Society offer full lyrics
It's A Mystery to Me
WE have have A Greed
with Which WE have have Agreed
by You of Think you have have to want
More than you need
until you have it all you won't be free
society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
When you want more than you have
you think you need
and when you think more than you want
your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place'cos
when you have more than you think
you need more space
society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy indeed
I hope you're not lonely without me
there's those thinking more or less, less is more
but if less is more, then how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make, your level drops
kinda like its starting from the top
you can't do that...
society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy indeed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, have mercy on me
I hope you're not angry if I disagree
society, crazy indeed
I hope you're not lonely without me
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