Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild”, based on Jon Krakauer’s book about the life of Christopher McCandless, begins with this poem. The words echo throughout the two hour long visually stunning journey of Chris from College graduate to lonely nomad, huddled inside an old Fairbanks City bus. It describes the pleasure found in nature, away from human intrusions and structures, away from capitalist habits and responsibility and taxes.
The film’s cinematography communicates these pleasures and evokes empathy from audiences seeking escape from societal power structures, namely capitalism and neocolonialism.
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A Short Interlude (that wasn’t very short)
I understand it has been just a little over 2 1/2 years since I last wrote anything on this blog which isn’t necessarily something I planned but more or less just happened. No real reason for it. Just life. Life gets in the way a lot these days, or at least I’ve thought so, since we emerged blearily into the daylight after the pandemic. Life seemed to hit the fast forward button and things went into overdrive and it seems all the ideas of slowing down our lives went out the window. So I would say it is fair to assume that we’ve all been coping with that for a while now. At least I certainly have.
For Wanderers and Wonderers 