samedi 14 décembre 2013

I NOW WALK... INTO THE WILD

These words on the screen are the words Christopher McCandless wrote in his diary when he reached the area in Alaska where he would die four months later. The camera shows Chris from above walking on the snow and then goes like a bird flying from the sky coming down to the ground, showing images of the landscape: mountains, meadows, and forests full of snow; an eagle flying, wild animals running, Chris hunting… and nothing else: isolation, emptiness, purity, loneliness are words that come to mind, perfectly complemented by the music of Eddie Vedder: the sound of wind from the movie is substituted by the arpeggios of an electric guitar backing Vedder’s voice: the stripped-down arrangements of the song match the images as well as the words to the lyrics: words on a new life alone, a life in which one’s best friend is his own soul: a life in a time and place where the most important thing is to feel oneself and understand what is really life about.

lundi 9 décembre 2013

INTO THE WILD: THE MYTH OF FREEDOM AND THE GOOD SAVAGE OR THE ANTI-HERO




The movie tells the story of a man who decided to break free from society and his own life. The notions of Progress and Myth are seen in a different way than in other movies. The main character is against progress and chooses to come back to a natural state and have a better life; this is his idea of progress, opposite to what most people think. The protagonist is like the "Good Savage" from the myth, trying to live and survive in the wilderness, surrounded only by nature, an anti-hero compared to the stereotypes of glory and success. If there is a clear notion in this film is about freedom.
It seems the main character is an idealistic young man who, probably by chance, decides to get lost when on holiday and live the dream of a free life. It seems his car gets broken in a flood and so he starts hiking and meets some people on his way to Alaska who think he must be crazy and ask him if he really knows what he is doing or not, because he says he wants to  to live in the open air.