From Alienation to Nature-Watching Notes on "Survival in the Wilderness"

Lessie 2022-03-22 09:01:05

"In to the wild" (In to the wild book)
Author: Jon Krakauer January 20, 1997 Published in the United States, July 2008 Published in China

"In to the wild" (In to the wild movie)
Director: Sean Penn September 21, 2007 American release
starring: Emile Hirsch (Emile Hirsch 1985.3.13-), Kristen Stewart (playing Tracy Tatro)
Award: 2008 80th Oscar Best Supporting Actor Hal Holbrook (playing Ron Franz), Best Editing 2 Nominations; Golden Globe Award for Best Song "Guaranteed"; Gotham Award for Best Picture; American Film Institute's Top Ten Films of the Year; National Critics Association's Top Ten and Best Breakthrough Actor Emile Hirsch


The movie "Survival in the Wilderness" is adapted from real life. The protagonist is based on Christopher Johnson McCandless (Christopher Johnson McCandless 1968.2.12—1992.8.18). He was born in an American family with superior family background. He is a famous private school in Atlanta. The top student in the school graduated from university in 1990 and is about to enter Harvard for further studies. However, after the parents became financially prosperous, their marriage relationship was tense. It was also reported that the father had concealed his early marriage and children but refused to admit it. This resulted in the Christopher brothers and sisters becoming illegitimate children and the mother reduced to the status of mistress. This dealt a fatal blow to him, and he lost faith in his parents, marriage, wealth, career, and future. So he resolutely donated all his deposits, burned cash, destroyed his identity documents, calling himself Alexander Supertramp (Alexander Supertramp), put his tent on his back, walked into the wilderness, and wandered west. He drifted across the river, smuggled into Mexico, picked up trains, did odd jobs, read the works of Jack London, Thoreau, Tolstoy and Paulis all the way, and met the hippie couple Jan and Rainey, who were like his parents, who were in love with his eldest brother. The farm employer Wayne, the innocent country folk singer Tracy, the tanner Ron Franze, the acquaintance of his forgotten year, was like his grandfather... Finally he headed north alone and entered the desperate state of Alaska in 1992. Under extreme scarcity, he finally realized the relationship between life and life. The true meaning of happiness, I found my true self, but died of food poisoning and hunger. He was only 24 years old.


Later, the famous American journalist Jon Krakauer followed his footsteps to visit people who had crossed his journey, read his mysterious diary, photos, books and letters, and wrote "Survival in the Wilderness" in 1997. After the book was published It has been on the best-selling list of The New York Times for two years, and then related works such as Jack London's Call of the Wild, Thoreau's "Walden" and other crazes have been set off in various countries. With the full support of the original author and Christopher's family, the famous American filmmaker Sean Penn, who has been dedicated to editing and directing for 10 years, brought it to the screen in September 2007.


It has been two or three years since the movie "Survival in the Wilderness" was released and the Chinese version of the book was published. As I expected, after the film was released, there were mixed praises and criticisms: conservative audiences thought the protagonist was a lunatic, naive, headstrong, rebellious, extreme, anti-social, self-righteous, and self-righteous; on the contrary, radical extremists and angry youths, However, he felt that he did not carry out the escape and rebellion against the hypocritical and degenerate society to the end. At his deathbed, he suddenly collapsed and did not die proudly and heroically, which made people despise... However, most of the relatives and friends of the original author of the book and the prototype of the story The film was given a high evaluation. The director's control over the characters, plot, pictures and music is rich, serious and delicate, and has a unique sense of art and inspiration. I think such comments are more pertinent. Most of the critics from the first two schools did not empathize with the experience and mood of the person concerned, or did not understand his reading and thinking, so they would criticize him as labelling.


The thoughts and consciousness shown by the protagonist in the movie are not simple Christian doctrines, naturalism, environmentalism, liberalism, or deconstruction. He is just an ordinary person, a young man, and a child, facing him. In the society and family, he used the most authentic perception and the simplest consciousness to judge, and felt absurd-money did not bring happiness, but brought selfishness, deceit, betrayal and depravity; the father who should be the ruler of life And political leaders are telling lies; the police and administrative officials are bureaucratic and ruthless; career and employment relationships are full of mischief and plunder; social relationships are full of ugliness, and all of this promotes him in the world that has not been alienated by human society. In nature, looking for the most primitive, simplest, and truest beauty... And his return to social relations at the end of the film is also a result of continuous experience and gradual experience in the natural interaction and communication between him and the people he meets along the way. The change in thinking and the difficulty of survival in desperate situations have achieved his karma practice with a rare reduction to absurdity.


In addition to his own personal experience and experience, Christopher also through a lot of reading, from sensibility and spontaneous determination to society, to rational and conscious towards nature: the experience of the writer Jack London is very similar to him, he was also poor but extremely strong in his early years. The middle-aged was rich but extremely empty, and finally committed suicide. His work "The Call of the Wild" appropriately expressed their sympathy, and his "Love of Life" was Lenin's pillow book before his death. As the representative of the American proletarian writers and the mentor of the Soviet proletarian revolution, they shared the spearhead. It points to the alienation of wealth to people. The writer Thoreau’s "Walden Lake" and the concept of civil disobedience naturally inherited Jack London and proposed a more specific method of returning to nature. Thoreau’s pure pursuit of truth, like a battle horn, inspires this The youth set foot on the journey step by step. The writer Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Family Happiness" subtly provided Christopher with constructive argumentation and inspiration, that is, beyond rationality, there are more possibilities in life: there are also desires for restraint. There is also sharing, simple and warm friendship, as well as tolerance and forgiveness... The author Paulis’s "Doctor Zhivago" finally allowed the dying Christopher to find the meaning of life, that is, to find his true self, neither the self alienated by society, nor the self extinct in loneliness. It is to restore the natural human-human relationship in an alienated society through the natural self. The so-called big hidden in the city, the so-called good sees the good, and the Buddha's heart sees the Buddha, all have the same principle. This kind of return to nature abandons negative evasion, and brings nature back to society in a high-spirited posture. Although Christopher died unfortunately, his mental journey and thinking and enlightenment have become a precious spiritual inspiration for each of us.



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Film classic lines and quotes:


There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is socity, where none intrudes,
At The Deep Sea By, and Music in the ITS Roar:
the I Love man at The not less, But Nature More ...
no surprise how many of shore
between the River shore cliff drum Tao for fun
unmanned stop for Taoyuan
my love even natural world之
——byron (George Gordon Byron 1788.1.22-1824.4.19)



Two years he walks the earth, No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager, whose home is the road. So now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. For
two years, he has walked in this world
without phones, swimming pools, pets, and no smoke. The
ultimate free
extremist, the wanderer of aestheticism
takes the road as his home. After
two years of wandering, he ushered in a great final. A battle
Eliminate hypocrisy, the revolution that wins souls will
no longer be poisoned by civilized society and
escape, walking on the ground and being
submerged in the wilderness
——Alexander Supertramp (1992.5)

I'm going nowhere!


Why do you want to give it? I buy a new car? Is it considering what others think of my old car? I don’t need a new car. You always think about things, things, things, and I don’t need anything.

(20'10'')



Chapter 1 My Own Birth My Own Birth

(21'37'') Jan and Rainey


He spent four years performing absurd and boring university studies, and now he has gone from that illusion, fragility, parental discipline, The materialistic world was liberated, away from the things that hindered him from experiencing the real existence.

(26'54'')


-Why did you burn all your money?

——I don't need money, it makes people
cautious.

——You can't live by those books.

——I'm enough to wonder depend on much more than that
I have other more important things to consider.

——Where are your parents?

——Live in their lie somewhere.
Live in their lie somewhere .



Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me the truth.
No love, no money, no faith, no reputation, no justice, just truth.
- Thoreau's "Walden" (29'58 '')



Some people think they do not deserve love
. Some people feel like they do not deserve love
them quietly into empty spaces in the world
They walk away quietly into empty spaces ,
trying to cut off all ties and past
trying to use Close to the GAPS at the past at the.

(33'34 '')


only gift is the surging waves of the sea
"the sea's only gifts are harsh blows,
and sometimes make you feel strong
" and , occasionally, the chance to feel strong .
now I know little about the sea
"now, I do not know much about the sea,
but I know this is the way it exists
" but I do know that that's the way it is here.
I also know how important this strong feeling is in life
"
You do not have to be strong but to feel strong
"not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong,
even if only once to go to prove themselves
" to measure yourself at least once,
even if only once in the most ancient of human self to discover
" to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions,
alone in the face of silent rock
"facing the blind, deaf stone alone
rely on your hands and brains
" with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head."
——Primo Levi "Bear Meat"
(35'01'')




Chapter 2 Adolescence Youth

(38'13'') Wayne and Kevin Baly South Dakota


I actually try not to be found. I'm gonna be all the way out there, all the way fucking out there.Just on my own.
You know, about getting out of this sick society.

I can get out of the sick society. I don't understand why people are so bad to each other, so often. It doesn't make sense to me, judgment, control, all that statue. Parents, hypocrite, politicians, preaks .
you how this young man has been so energetic!
You're a young guy! Can not be juggling blood and fire all the time!
You know, this is the most authentic
by You know, the this IS Nature.


The If Admit Human Life WE CAN BE ruled by reason, at The Possibilities of Life Would destroy
If we admit that human life is ruled by reason, the possibility of life will be destroyed
-Tolstoy's "War and Peace"

(57'47'')


I decided to live like this forever
i've decided i'm going to live this life for some time to come.
This
freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up...

(1h3'00'')




Capital 3 Manhood Adult

(1h10'42'') The Colorado River goes south to the Grand Canyon, Mexico’s Cofer Bay.



Some people will ask why they
act now, why not wait? Some may ask, "why act now? why not wait?" The
answer is clear, the world will not wait for you
. at The answer iS the Clear world could at The longer the wait NO.
- Bush
(1h4'15 '')



"Society" episode
it's a mystery to me
it is a mystery to me
we have a greed With which we have agreed
that we always be greedy
you think you have to want more than you need
your desire is always more need
Until you have it all you will not be freed
day fetters for their desire
Society, you're a crazy breed
mediocre earthly, bizarre
I hope you're not lonely without me
without me, I hope you will not be lonely
when you want more than you have you think you need
when you need more than desire
And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed
when you desire more than you need to start thinking bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
I need to find a larger space
'Cause when you have more than You think
because when your desires are more than you need , you
need more space. You need more space
to put
Society, you're a crazy breed
.
I hope you're not lonely without me. I hope you're not lonely without me
. I hope you will not be lonely
society, crazy indeed
society, you are crazy hotbed
I hope you're not lonely without me
without me, I hope you will not be lonely

(1h13'12 '')



where you can clearly feel a human Unfriendly forces exist. This is a sacred place for pagans. It nurtures a group of people who live with the mountains and beasts all day long
-Thoreau's "Maine Forest"

(1h26'15'')





Capital 4 Family

(1h26') 43'') Rainey and Tracy Slate City Salvation Mountain


I have experienced the world
"i have lived through much,
and now finally to find where happiness
" and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness.
Hermitage garden
"a quiet secluded life in the country ,
as far as possible for people to do good things simple and useful
"with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good,
even though those people are not accustomed to these I do for them
" and who are not accustomed to have it done to them.
aid can help people, OK Good deeds
" and work which one hopes may be of some use.
Self-cultivation and self-cultivation, enjoy the landscape, boating and book the sea, singing and traveling the world
"then rest, nature, books, music, the
neighborhood, its music and pottery
" love for one's neighbor.
This is my ideal happiness.
" such is my idea of ​​happiness.
Then, most importantly, if you are with you, or
if you have children , what can your husband ask for?
-Tolstoy "Family Happiness"

(1h42'56'')





Final chapter Getting of Wisdom

(1h48'15'') Ron Franze


career is an invention of the 20th century, I don't want it. I am not destitute, I choose to live this life myself.
(1h50'20 '')



children running away from what you ah
Son, what the hell are you running from?
This question I can ask you
You know, I can ask you the same question!
But I already know the answer
Except I already know the answer!
you know?
by you do, do you?
I know Mr. Franz you have to go back out in the world
I do, mr. franz! you got to get back out in the world!
from you that lonely house inside out, that little workshop
Get out of that lonely house, that little workshop of yours.
really!
Get back out on the road! really !
you're going to live a long time
you're going to live a long time, ron!
You should completely change your lifestyle
You should make a radical change in your lifestyle!
I mean, a new human soul comes from new experiences
I mean, the core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.
Look at your stubborn old man, sitting the fixed
And there you are, stubborn Old man, sitting oN your Butt.
- sit still? - for
- sitting on my butt -?. yeah
I'll show you what is sedentary
I'll show you sitting on my butt!
stubborn old guy
"old stubborn man."
(1h57'00 '')



you are of think Wrong IF you that at the joy of life Comes principally from human Relationships.

If you think a happy life and mainly from people You are wrong about the relationship between people.

god placed it all around us.it's in everything. people just need to change the way they look at those things.

God put happiness in the middle of everything around us, and we will feel happiness in everything we can experience! What people have to do is to think in another way.
(1h58'00'')

But, there is some kind of bigger thing we all appreciate, and sounds like you don't mind call it God. But…
From the moment you mentioned, your family, your parents, you I also have doubts about Christianity, but there is always a supreme existence that we are grateful for. You don't mind calling it "God."
When you forgive, You love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.
But when you forgive, you will love! When you love, the light of God will illuminate you!
(1h59'50'') In an



instant, the meaning of survival was revealed to him again. She realized that he lived in the world to uncover the extraordinary beauty of the earth and to name all things correctly.
——Pas Ternak "Doctor Zhivago"
(2h00'51'')

happiness only real when shared!
(2h13'35'')



I have had a happy life and thank the lord. goodbye and may god bless all! ——Christopher
Johnson McCandless
(2h14'51'')


to call each thing by its right name.
Use the correct name to address it.
by its right name.
Use the right name .
(2h14'51 '')


the What IF i were Smiling,
if I can smile,
and running INTO your Arms,
pour into your arms,
Would you See the then,
whether you will see,
the What i See now?
I am at the moment of the See?
(2h17'20'')



I love you, love enough to tolerate your disappearance.


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Film Quotation Bibliography:


George Gordon Byron (George Gordon Byron 1788.1.22-1824.4.19) "Don Juan" (Tang Huang), "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"


Led Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy 1828.9.9-1910.11.20) "war and peace" ) "The death of Ivan Ilych", "Family Happiness" (Family Happiness)


Jack London (Jack London 1876.1.12~1916.11.22) "the call of the wild" ) "White fang" (white teeth) "Love of life" (love life)


Henry David Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau 1817.7.12-1862) "Walden and Civil Disobedience" (Walden Lake and Civil Disobedience)


Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol 1809.3 .20~1852) "Taras Bulba" (Beacon King), "Dead Souls" (Dead Souls)


Wallace Stegner (2, 18, 1909 – 4, 13, 1993) "The Spectator Bird" (1976 National Book Award) "Angle of Repose" (1972 Pulitzer Prize) "the American west as living place"


Boris Pasternak (Boris Leonidovich Pasternak 1890 – 1960) "Doktor Zhivago" (Doctor Zhivago 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature)


Sharon olds "The Gold cell" Graduation Poem "I go back to may 1937"
(20'41'')


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Film soundtrack Track list:

Emory and old St. Andrews March the Atlanta Pipe Band
Guaranteed Eddie Vedder
Long nights Eddie Vedder
Hard Sun Eddie Vedder & Corin Tucker Gordon Peterson
Coming up the Country Canned Heat
The Water Ran This Way Back And Forth Pedro
Rise Eddie Vedder
I thought I was you Kelly Peterson
U can't touch this MC Hammer
Fork and File the Crooked Jades
Dakota Themes Peter Ostroushko
King of the road Rodger Miller
Society Eddie Vedder & Jerry Hannan
The Wolf Eddie Vedder
Kaa Claude Chalhoub
Slab Song Everett Smith
Tracy’s Song Kristen Stewart
Angel from Montgomery Kristen Stewart & Emile Hirsch
Picking Berries Gustavo Santaolalla
No Ceiling Eddie Vedder
Best Unsaid / Timekeeper / Carte Npir / Flood Michael Brook Port
Clearwater Clearwater Revival
Doing the Wrong thing / Frame Kaki King
I saw it Michael Brook,




lead singer of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder's first soundtrack album track list:

1. Setting Forth
2. No Ceiling
3. Far Behind
4. Rise
5. Long Nights
6. Tuolumne
7. Hard Sun
8. The Wolf
9. End of the Road
10. Society
11. Guaranteed The


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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!