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Thought provoking, inspiring, disturbing - I cannot recommend this film highly enough.
Directed by Sean Penn, the true story of Christopher McCandless who graduated from Emory University, gave away all his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska.
As great a film as Atonement was shite in fact.
In fact Patrick, buy the DVD to wash the taste of Atonement from your mouth - it'll refresh your appetite no end.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
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A paean to modern self indulgence (involvement) and the inability to find meaning from the inside.
I can see why kids dig it. No need for taking the time to figure it out for yourself, just go walkabout.
That guy is worse than Benjamin Braddock.
The movie was too long for being about a character I thought was selfish and stupid. I eventually lost interest and shut it off.
A picture this long should have an intermission and a chariot race, a old time Hollywood director would'a popped this out as 90 minutes.
I liked the book though.
Quite a few trailers on that film, a small problem is I don´t like Penn...
But with such a generous recomendation, I will of course, see it.
I even saw on German TV the live of that guy.
But I will rent it when possible...So quite a few months...And then eventulally ..buy it...
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I know! But when I do not really like an actor / person I am prejudiced. The closet I came to like him was in Sweet & Lowdown, must have been the music...
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Great flick, all around.
+ a much darker character
But... he played it well
Grins
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"I even saw on German TV the live of that guy."
I knew nothing of the guy so perhaps the film may have had a greater impact on me than it will with you, and I also didn't know who the director was until the closing credits.
"But I will rent it when possible...So quite a few months...And then eventulally ..buy it..."
I rented the film at Blockbusters Patrick so I'd imagine there's a copy waiting for you on a shelf at the German equivalent right now.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
Could have been a "Frontline" show. Might even have been that German one renarrated ion English. IIRC, it involved some family members. The way it portrayed him wasn't particularly sympathetic.
Every day brings more evidence that we're circling the drain
No Chris this picture is just playing in the theater house so it will be a while...
I can of course buy it from Amazon U.K...
Amitées,
Patrick
...with gorgeous cinematography. Very well done.
It has a lot of emotional impact because it's a true story and a tragedy.
My 17 year old daughter says it's the best film she's seen. She and her friends cried at the end.
My take on it is it's this generation's 'coming of age' film - like Easy Rider' was for those teens in the late 1960s.
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