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You're right, in general, about the relative merits of Denby and

Posted by tinear on October 12, 2007 at 05:01:33:
Lane but way off in your contention that Denby merely takes issue with Penn.
"McCandless (the lead character) rejects not only family and bourgeois life but also sensual life, and he's incapable of sustaining an interest in anyone outside himself."
Denby goes on to say that the young man heavily has been influenced by Tolstoy's writings but that it is superficial: Tolstoy, after all, only "rejected" life after he had lived an extraordinarily full one.
Lastly, Denby doesn't criticize Penn per se, as you imply, but rather his shortcomings as a director IN THIS FILM, in which Penn emphasizes the false saintliness of the young man while ignoring his incredible selfishness, naivete, and self-destructiveness.
Goethe did it best, of course, in "The Sorrows of Young Werther." This led to a wave of suicides in Germany....