Wandering Wild

Laura 2022-03-22 09:01:05

I don't know how many people have had dreams about beautiful wandering lives, but I think there are many. Perhaps this is precisely because of human instinct, or that this has developed to a highly civilized and highly pathological social life background, suppressing and inspiring a kind of human yearning for freedom and barbaric instinct, know why Do many people like roller coasters? Hmph, I remember that in high school, the Chinese teacher asked everyone to write down their own definition of happiness. My answer without hesitation was freedom. For Christopher Johnson Mccandless, he originally thought that happiness was just like that.

Indeed, what I want to say is the movie "Survival in the Wilderness". The well-known Sean Penn and the well-known Into The Wild, although I have heard of it for a long time, I watched this movie for the first time yesterday, and then immediately regretted not seeing the original first. This is a film based on real people. In the reportage, 22-year-old Chris has just graduated from a prestigious university with all A grades. His savings and grades have allowed him to go to Harvard Law School to continue his studies. After graduation, he will be in the upper class society is just around the corner, but he decided to donate all his property. Abandoned his parents and sister, abandoned the city and society, and walked on the wandering journey alone, his goal is the uninhabited wilderness of Alaska, where he wants to pursue his dreams and return to nature.

I have expressed my disgusting and naturalistic emotions here more than once, but I have never had the courage to do so. This is the greatness of Chris. He used his own experience to realize everyone’s wandering dreams and tell people his own What you want. The reason why this movie shocked me so much is because I feel like Chris. Chris’s aversion to society comes from his childhood, from "lie, this is the first thing he learned from family life." . "If a person can't even believe his parents, who can he believe? Can he still be called a person?" Whenever I talk about my family life, I always use this sentence To sum up myself, such a "person" is indeed unable to survive in society happily, but can gallop in the free and simple wild world. I think this might be why Chris chose to leave. After wandering for a year, Chris took a train from Mexico to a city. He wanted to live in a relief home. He saw the flashy urban life on the street. He saw men in suits and suits under the feasting and chatting with the ladies and laughing. , A hypocritical mask immediately reflected his own appearance, he frantically picked up his suitcase and ran away from this civilization full of lies and control.

Then I think, there is still the question, whether it is escape or pursuit. Thoreau, Jack London, Tolstoy, the free will of these thinkers deeply influences Chris, leading him to pursue those great dreams. When he talks about Alaska, he always has a bright and charming look. Yiyi: "No fucking watch, no map, no ax, no nothing! Just be out there, just be out there in it! Just into the wild!" At this time, his face is filled with happiness in the purest heart Interpretation. "Some people think that they are destined not to be loved, and they quietly walk towards the unsentimental future and try to cut off all contact with the past." Chris met various people during his journey, and Jane gave his mother's love. Wayne gave his friend’s love, Tracy gave him the girl’s love, Franz gave his father’s love, but all this love and exhortation failed to prevent Chris from pursuing his wild dream in his heart, between stubbornness and paranoia. Wandering, he thought he had seen through the love of this world, but when he was about to die, he seemed to realize the true meaning of happiness and love.

"Happiness only real when shared." Lying alone in the magic bus, Chris wrote this sentence. He is lonely at this moment. Humans may yearn to return to nature, but it does not mean that they are not afraid of loneliness, wolves, and deer. , Even flies, nature has its own social structure. There is no real sense of being alone. "I feel the power of nature. It is not biased towards protecting humans. This place is barbaric and uncivilized. Those who are closer to me The talents of the wilderness and animals are suitable for survival here." Tolstoy: "I have experienced a lot, and now, I seem to understand what happiness is, living in a quiet retreat in the country, and doing as simple and useful as possible for people Good deeds, even though those people are not used to me doing this for them, do a really useful job, and finally rest, enjoy nature, read, listen to music, and love everyone around me. This is my interpretation of happiness , And on top of these, if you are company, and maybe our children, what else can a man desire?" After reading this chapter, Chris seemed to understand something. He packed up his bags as if thinking He wanted to go back, but the river surged and the rushing river blocked the way he came. After the poisonous accident, Chris was upset and angry. There was no way to return. He didn't want to die. What was his life expecting?

"When you forgive, You love. And when you love, God's light shines on you." At the last moment, Chris saw the light among the clouds shed on his dead body. He has learned to forgive and understand love In his mind, he saw his reunion with his family, "If I return to your embrace with a smile, can you see what I see now?"

What are we living for? Why do we blindly chase fame and interests every day? These are all fabricated by ourselves. Every day we live in the world, we should cherish the beauty around us. "The beauty of freedom and simplicity is always too beautiful and passes quickly." "God puts happiness in the middle of everything around us. We can learn from the experience Anything can be happy. All people have to do is to change their view of things." Maybe this is just the most simple truth, but I think these are still my two favorite sentences.

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Into the Wild quotes

  • Carine McCandless: Chris was writing his story, and it had to be Chris who would tell it.

  • Walt McCandless: Don't you walk away from me, woman! Woman!

    Billie McCandless: Kids! Look what your dad is doing to me!

    Walt McCandless: For God's sake, look what your mother is making me do!

    Billie McCandless: Fuck you! I hate you!

    Walt McCandless: There ain't gonna be no party. I'm gonna cancel Christmas this year.

    Billie McCandless: Cancel Christmas? Who do you think you are? God?

    Walt McCandless: That's right! I'm God!