Chris, a college graduate is over his life at present, he needs a new experience, so he decides to go into the wild. Along this journey he meets alsorts of people. We hear his thoughts and struggles- Chris' jouney is about escaping, and finding, searching for truth, simplicity and freedom. He finds it in many places- After working on a farm for a while, Chris leaves, and finds a town, with a river running through it. He drops into the rangers office and asks wehre he can launch onto the river, the converstaion leads to the fact that Chris actually needs a permit to kayak down the river, and he asks how do i get one... he has to apply:
Ranger Steve Koehler: Next available is May 17, 2003.
Christopher McCandless: 12 years? Twelve years - to paddle down a river?
CHris soon skips that hurdle and just paddles down the river anyway. Chris finally arrives in Alaska- his final destination. After this journey, he is finally alone, and can soak up the wild. This is it.
The last written line in the movie is this:
Happiness only real when shared
After this journey, now finally alone with his thoughts, Chris concludes that happieness is only real when its shared. Previous comments that:
No, man. Alaska, Alaska. I'm gonna be all the way out there, all the way
out there. Just on my own. You know, no watch, no map, no axe,
no nothing. No nothing. Just be out there. Just be out there in it. You know,
big mountains, rivers, sky, game. Just be out there in it, you know? In the
wild.
It is in this place, his search for truth comes to an end. In all the beauty, and wild, still happiness is incomplete. Chris comments to a friend during his travels :You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. But Perhaps what Chris found, was that we need it all, we were made for it all. For the Wild, for each other and for happiness.
Watch it! (and its based on a true story...)
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