So i have recently watched this film, and it brought up some points for me that i thought i would share as i saw of alot of my own individual programming and personality in the main character.
So this film is a true story of a a man called Christopher McCandless who was an excellent student and athlete and got University Masters degrees. Then one day he decides to give his entire life savings of $24,000 to a charity, and go and live in the alaskan wilderness without money to support himself.
Christophers character has some cool points, in that he has absolutely no fear of what others think of him, he cannot be influenced by others around him, he seems to be the same Chris around every person. He has absolutely no fear of getting dirty, he seems to enjoy getting dirty and interacting with nature, which is cool. He is adamant that there must be a total restructuring of human existance and interaction in this world to something based on simplicity which is cool (although his story gets more complicated as it goes on). Also he has no fear of letting go of his attatchment to money or items, so he is not greedy for money, but rather other forms of energy.
So immeditaely we have the hero light worker, always attempting to be good and be "free" in a world system that does not allow freedom. Christopher recognizes that this accepted and allowed state of humanity is unacceptable, but his answer to this is to run away from the system. Then he attempts to live a life that is as extreme as possible, unkowingly to him as selfish as possible, and the apparent most "in touch" with nature way of living.
I am mean what comes up clearly for me throughout this film, is the total and utter disregard for whats best for all in the name of self interest. Chris meets alot of people on the way to Alaska, each being attempts to support him to see how crazy what he is doing really is. And then he will support these people for a bit, and everytime it looks like he may settle, he just says fuck off to existance, and to those that have supported him in the name of his selfish pursuit of uneccessary extremes, and the ultimate experience.
So i thought it was interesting to note that this film actually promotes self interest, but is sold as a film "with a heart" and all of that. Then we can see in the world how we as humanity will do things like this, where we will disregard whats best for all in the name of acquiring the most energy possible from a particular activity or experience. This idea that we can run away from the system, that we can hide ourselves from the abuse existant here as ourselves and this world, that we can engulf ourselves in some extreme activities, and just forget about everyone else, and take no accountability for the whole.
Also another point is the points of ego and abuse, because Chris puts himself in situations that he doesn't need to be in. Where he will be starving, living on the street, having no money, all self inflicted by his ego of resisting money, his unwillingness to participate in this world, and this obsession of finding an "enlightened" state of living. I mean he comes from a rich family, so it is an insult to starving people who have not forced themselves to starve from some self interested egotistical mindfuck, but have actually been allowed to starve and die because they have no money given to them. This mindfuck also causes him to directly kill and butcher alot of animals and plants to feed himself
In a scene near the start he burns his remaining money after giving most of it to charity, but its fascinating that as the film goes on, he has to come to the realisation that he does need money and must work to get some. But his ego is constantly resisting this fact, and thus his ego kills him in the end from starvation in the wild.
This film for me also exposes lightworkers, spiritualists and people that are likely to try what Christopher McCandless tried. It really exposes the deception of religious brainwashing, where people fanatically cut themselves off from reality in their mind, and start believing shit like god will protect me, and "aslong as i have the light of god, and live in nature" then nothing else in this world matters, i dont require anything else apparently.
Christopher is religious in the lightworker vein, and he literally super imposes his knowledge, ideas and beliefs onto this one physical reality, and considers it to be real. To Christopher the thoughts in his mind, the emotions and feelings he experiences is just as real as this physical reality. He is an awesome character to expose spiritualists, where he doesnt even know the difference between illusion and reality.
Interms of his knowledge of law/politics and how the money system operates, he is like a child, with no understanding of what actually governs the world now which is exposed in many scenes. He is instead actually convinced that he can resist this system and live out delusion as reality, so its fascinating that the further he loses himself in his minds delusions, then the worse his health and standard of living becomes. because he is more focused on accumilating mental relationships instead of accumilating the physical ones, the ones that matter, in matter.
Also this film like most mainstream films is a story of a persons inability to forgive themselves and let go of hateful thoughts, feelings and emotions in relation to his family. He is like a person on an ultimate vendetta with his parents because they fought all the time in abusive arguments, and also Chris was a bastard son, and so becomes a person harming themselves repeatedly to attempt to spite their parents in a form of long term revenge. I mean his whole inconsiderate hike into the wilderness is fuelled by his hate for his parents, and his desire to escape them and everything they stand for. Its like he seems to be thirsting in desire, and desperate to proove to his parents that he is nothing like them, and he will even slowly kill himself to proove this point just out of spite.
At one point near the end, when he is about to leave another person who would like him to stay. Its an old man who took him in for a bit gives him a talk, where he basically says stop hating your parents, because forgiveness is the key to have real love. When i watched that scene i reacted, and said to myself "thats so fucking cool that he said that, but its just missing the word self before forgiveness" But anyway it is the single greatest verbal support Chris recieves throughout his travels, but due to his ego, and idea that "i am always right" "i know the best way to live" he fails to practically apply much knowledge he is taught by characters along the way.
So he certainly fails to apply self forgivness for the rest of the film, however its fascinating that when he is about ready to die near the very end after he is poisoned. He realizes again that forgiveness is the key, but it is filmed in a way that implies he is going to heaven when he realizes this. And when you look at society its fascinating that this is a commonly held belief in many religions and beliefs allowed by the human, where it is believed that aslong as you get into ideas of forgiveness for abuse when you are about to die, then you will be saved in the afterlife -
Dont apply forgiveness as and when required, just do it all at once in a crescendo of emotion at the end of your life, i mean this programmes people to avoid forgiveness in there day to day living, point by point, here while we are alive. but instead find a way of getting into ideas of forgiveness close to death as a "golden ticket" to heaven lol - fucked up
Alot of points came up for me, but thats all for now in relation to this film.
cheers
So this film is a true story of a a man called Christopher McCandless who was an excellent student and athlete and got University Masters degrees. Then one day he decides to give his entire life savings of $24,000 to a charity, and go and live in the alaskan wilderness without money to support himself.
Christophers character has some cool points, in that he has absolutely no fear of what others think of him, he cannot be influenced by others around him, he seems to be the same Chris around every person. He has absolutely no fear of getting dirty, he seems to enjoy getting dirty and interacting with nature, which is cool. He is adamant that there must be a total restructuring of human existance and interaction in this world to something based on simplicity which is cool (although his story gets more complicated as it goes on). Also he has no fear of letting go of his attatchment to money or items, so he is not greedy for money, but rather other forms of energy.
So immeditaely we have the hero light worker, always attempting to be good and be "free" in a world system that does not allow freedom. Christopher recognizes that this accepted and allowed state of humanity is unacceptable, but his answer to this is to run away from the system. Then he attempts to live a life that is as extreme as possible, unkowingly to him as selfish as possible, and the apparent most "in touch" with nature way of living.
I am mean what comes up clearly for me throughout this film, is the total and utter disregard for whats best for all in the name of self interest. Chris meets alot of people on the way to Alaska, each being attempts to support him to see how crazy what he is doing really is. And then he will support these people for a bit, and everytime it looks like he may settle, he just says fuck off to existance, and to those that have supported him in the name of his selfish pursuit of uneccessary extremes, and the ultimate experience.
So i thought it was interesting to note that this film actually promotes self interest, but is sold as a film "with a heart" and all of that. Then we can see in the world how we as humanity will do things like this, where we will disregard whats best for all in the name of acquiring the most energy possible from a particular activity or experience. This idea that we can run away from the system, that we can hide ourselves from the abuse existant here as ourselves and this world, that we can engulf ourselves in some extreme activities, and just forget about everyone else, and take no accountability for the whole.
Also another point is the points of ego and abuse, because Chris puts himself in situations that he doesn't need to be in. Where he will be starving, living on the street, having no money, all self inflicted by his ego of resisting money, his unwillingness to participate in this world, and this obsession of finding an "enlightened" state of living. I mean he comes from a rich family, so it is an insult to starving people who have not forced themselves to starve from some self interested egotistical mindfuck, but have actually been allowed to starve and die because they have no money given to them. This mindfuck also causes him to directly kill and butcher alot of animals and plants to feed himself
In a scene near the start he burns his remaining money after giving most of it to charity, but its fascinating that as the film goes on, he has to come to the realisation that he does need money and must work to get some. But his ego is constantly resisting this fact, and thus his ego kills him in the end from starvation in the wild.
This film for me also exposes lightworkers, spiritualists and people that are likely to try what Christopher McCandless tried. It really exposes the deception of religious brainwashing, where people fanatically cut themselves off from reality in their mind, and start believing shit like god will protect me, and "aslong as i have the light of god, and live in nature" then nothing else in this world matters, i dont require anything else apparently.
Christopher is religious in the lightworker vein, and he literally super imposes his knowledge, ideas and beliefs onto this one physical reality, and considers it to be real. To Christopher the thoughts in his mind, the emotions and feelings he experiences is just as real as this physical reality. He is an awesome character to expose spiritualists, where he doesnt even know the difference between illusion and reality.
Interms of his knowledge of law/politics and how the money system operates, he is like a child, with no understanding of what actually governs the world now which is exposed in many scenes. He is instead actually convinced that he can resist this system and live out delusion as reality, so its fascinating that the further he loses himself in his minds delusions, then the worse his health and standard of living becomes. because he is more focused on accumilating mental relationships instead of accumilating the physical ones, the ones that matter, in matter.
Also this film like most mainstream films is a story of a persons inability to forgive themselves and let go of hateful thoughts, feelings and emotions in relation to his family. He is like a person on an ultimate vendetta with his parents because they fought all the time in abusive arguments, and also Chris was a bastard son, and so becomes a person harming themselves repeatedly to attempt to spite their parents in a form of long term revenge. I mean his whole inconsiderate hike into the wilderness is fuelled by his hate for his parents, and his desire to escape them and everything they stand for. Its like he seems to be thirsting in desire, and desperate to proove to his parents that he is nothing like them, and he will even slowly kill himself to proove this point just out of spite.
At one point near the end, when he is about to leave another person who would like him to stay. Its an old man who took him in for a bit gives him a talk, where he basically says stop hating your parents, because forgiveness is the key to have real love. When i watched that scene i reacted, and said to myself "thats so fucking cool that he said that, but its just missing the word self before forgiveness" But anyway it is the single greatest verbal support Chris recieves throughout his travels, but due to his ego, and idea that "i am always right" "i know the best way to live" he fails to practically apply much knowledge he is taught by characters along the way.
So he certainly fails to apply self forgivness for the rest of the film, however its fascinating that when he is about ready to die near the very end after he is poisoned. He realizes again that forgiveness is the key, but it is filmed in a way that implies he is going to heaven when he realizes this. And when you look at society its fascinating that this is a commonly held belief in many religions and beliefs allowed by the human, where it is believed that aslong as you get into ideas of forgiveness for abuse when you are about to die, then you will be saved in the afterlife -
Dont apply forgiveness as and when required, just do it all at once in a crescendo of emotion at the end of your life, i mean this programmes people to avoid forgiveness in there day to day living, point by point, here while we are alive. but instead find a way of getting into ideas of forgiveness close to death as a "golden ticket" to heaven lol - fucked up
Alot of points came up for me, but thats all for now in relation to this film.
cheers
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