The film is adapted from Jon Krakauer's bestselling novel of the same name published in 1998, based on real events that took place in 1992. A 24-year-old idealistic young man, Christopher McCandless, abandoned the life of modern civilization and resolutely went to the primitive wilderness to challenge the ultimate adventure in Alaska, even if he sacrificed his life.
The young Chris in "Wild Survival" is the incarnation of McCandless. He graduated from college and is in the prime of his youth. Like many literary and artistic youths of that era, he loved Tolstoy, Jack London and Thoreau. He was tired of the absurd and numb mainstream world, excess material, and powerful and overwhelming family affection. , he was terrified of all these routines, because they drowned out the meaning of his existence. So when he completed his university obligations, he resolutely went to Alaska to go deep into nature and explore the wild and lonely wilderness.
When I tried to find meaning for everything he did, I knew that I had been wandering outside the door of idealism for eternity. That kind of life attitude of single-mindedness, reckless pursuit of ultimate freedom, and the meaning of my title were confused by the meaning of my title. Unrecognizable and tasteless.
On Chris's road to freedom, savage power lurks in the vastness of nature, and survival becomes something to strive for, whereas before that it was nothing more than a 24-hour step-by-step proposition, or under the shelter of a family. Flowers in the greenhouse. And in this wild wilderness, life truly shows its heavy texture. Fighting with the natural weather, fighting with wild animals, rock climbing, falling into the water, working in a fast food restaurant, meeting hippie men and women, and meeting love, it was also at those moments that he must have touched the clear and flowing veins of life, and must feel that he is more real than ever. It is perhaps the most seductive power that this exile has possessed.
Chris didn't get out of Alaska in the end, he didn't get back into a well-ordered society, he died of food poisoning, in a waste car in the wilderness, of youth, of life's thickest moments, of freedom, of death ideal.
Luc Besson's "Blue Sea and Blue Sky" said: You have to give up the desire to survive to be received by the mermaid.
Maybe we need to abandon the material, stay away from the dazed and insecure world, stay away from the source of anxiety, and forget the so-called meaning attached to everything in order to reach the core of the event itself.
Chris's life is sealed in the ideal age, like amber sleeping for thousands of years. For thousands of years, all idealistic young people are still trapped in the dual choice between freedom and institutions. In the world we live in today, the buoyant passions within us have become quieter, like a bear that has been dormant for years.
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