Analysis: According to ALEX's life background and age, the motivation is nothing more than the following. ALEX was born in a wealthy family but his parents were separated. As a child of a wealthy family with extremely worry-free food and clothing, they all have something missing in their hearts. What hides is the desire to explore and experience real life (from his In terms of his performance at the graduation ceremony, he is more unique and adventurous than his peers), plus ALEX is smart and has A in all his homework, which makes him tired of this unchallenging study life, long-term boring His school book education has left him disenchanted, and it seems that his intelligence is not fully utilized. Plus, he reads a lot, and he admires Jack. London and Rousseau et al. Jack London is also an adventurous person, known as "the sailor on horseback", perhaps in Jack London's books about his own wandering around in his early years, ALEX was fascinated by the fragments of experiencing various hard life, and Thoreau's "Walden". "The Lake" is a record of Thoreau's 2 years of farewell to the hustle and bustle of life in the countryside. It can be said that it is all the harm of books. They triggered ALEX's belief in walking into the wilderness and exploring life, because he thinks it is cool, so that he can be with him. He resents the division and segregation of society, or he intends to write a biography of his experience. Furthermore, due to the estrangement between ALEX's parents, the frequent quarrels, and the emotional neglect of his children, ALEX's heart is even more distressed, and his departure may also be a pique, a quarrel with his parents, and a kind of childish revenge. Maybe there are other motives. Maybe ALEX has a flawed personality, has hidden illness, or because of lovelorn, or because he is about to step into society, and he feels that he is not ready in his heart, so he left for a while to escape the society. method. Taken together, all the motivations add up to drive ALEX into the wilderness to survive alone. But as the great man said, if ALEX wants to run away, he should not take his "self" to run away, but should keep his "self" at home, but his soul and body can never be separated, his self-consciousness will always follow him, and all the problems Of course, it will always bother him, no matter where others are, he can't escape anything, because those things are in his "brain", not in some "big city". If he wants to explore the meaning of real life, does it mean that there is no meaning in life to explore in urban life? And can only explore in the wilderness?
In fact, they are very open to foreigners. I read in a book that many foreign young people are not in a hurry to find a job after graduating from college. If they feel that their hearts are not ready, they simply spend a year or a half. They take the time to travel around, experience life, and then go to work, which they call "taking the gap year", so that they can become more mature, have a broader perspective, and look at life more openly. In fact, I think this is still very good. Isn't it the same as the ancient Chinese saying "read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles", unlike our Chinese children, who don't know anything after graduation, and then go After work, I have no chance to travel thousands of miles. In this way, I don't think ALEX's behavior is wrong. I'd like to believe that ALEX's original intention is not to leave permanently, but to spend 1-3 years to experience life, find himself, and wait until he can't stand loneliness. Finally, he finally stopped arguing with his parents and understood them, so he went home and worked obediently. But unfortunately, maybe just when ALEX made up his mind and said to himself, "Okay, enough, I should go home." Unfortunately, he was poisoned and starved to death.
As a young man who is confused about the future, it should be understandable to do this seemingly "naive" behavior. At least if you ask a peer, he will definitely say "well, understandable". Everyone had some radical ideas when they were young, such as running away from home, wandering around, volunteering in a remote place, falling in love with someone who shouldn’t love, or trying out some kind of performance art. Everyone has that period of chaos. If you don't do certain things, you will feel "unwilling". You can only do it yourself, even if it is wrong, even if it has to pay a big or small price, Even if the old people are always sincere and tell you their experiences tirelessly to avoid detours, the young people still have to do it, because if they don't do it, they can't really grow up. Maybe these "childish mistakes" It is every young man's coming-of-age ceremony. Perhaps ALEX, who was only 21 years old, carried his hope in this way. He wanted to become an "adult", completely get rid of the control of his parents, and set out on a wandering journey with his desire to prove his "sincerity". In the movie, we can see that ALEX's every move is still very naive, and he has the "arrogance" desperate to prove that he is "mature", from when he said to the management staff at the homeless agency "I am ALEX. Super homeless" From what he said to the old man, "Career is only an invention of the 20th century", we can see that he is childish and has not yet fully grown up, and in this way, how can we have the heart to blame a young man who is as green as we were when we were young Is he arrogant? No one growing up had anything like that, but unfortunately, ALEX has yet to celebrate his 25th birthday. We believe that if he hadn't died, he would have returned to his parents and he was still a very nice young man.
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