Into the wild, Sean Penn

Into the wild

1. Présentation du film , résumé

Into the Wild or Into the Unknown in Quebec, is an American movie directed by Sean Penn , released in 2007. It’s an adaptation of Journey  to the end of solitude, written by Jon Krakauer in 1996, and telling the real story of Christopher McCandless.

Christopher McCandless is a brilliant American student , who has just graduated . Rejecting the principals of modern society, after having celebrated his graduation with his parents , he gives up the American dream for an adventurous life in the countryside. He burned identity paper and sent is saving to an association who act against injustice and poverty. He discovers Harizona , the grand canyon, California after Dakota and Colorado Christopher McCandless come in Mexico where finds the idea , go in Alaska.He hitchhiking and manages in Fairbanks where he sees snowy mountains and he takes refuge under a bus abandoned. More than three month of loneliness, of understanding of nature and the human being. After two years to discover spiritual peace and happiness, he decides to go home. But he finds himself obliged to wait until the river descends to be able to across and go home.

Hungry, he bases his botanical guide, Dena'ina Plantflore, which he interprets badly and accidentally poisons himself by eating seeds of Hedysarum mackenzii2, toxic and different from Hedysarum alpinum (a legume resembling tuberous germs) whose swollen root Is consumed under certain conditions by indigenous peoples. Meanwhile, he understands that solitude is not the ideal of man. Chris is a young man loved by all, indeed, all the people met along the way will take love or friendship for him. But, blinded by his stubborn dream of Alaska, Christopher does not perceive the happiness that the love of the other can bring. He becomes aware of this by reading the lines of a work by Tolstoy describing perfect happiness in a rural micro-society. Shortly before he died, Christopher McCandless wrote in a pen on a page of a book "Happiness Only Real When Shared".

The film ends with a self-portrait of Christopher McCandless taken shortly before his death. An explanatory text mentions that hunters found him two weeks after his death.

Réplique final du film

Il ya tant de gens qui ne sont pas heureux et qui, pourtant, ne prendront pas l'initiative de changer leur situation parce qu'ils sont conditionnés à vivre dans la sécurité, le conformisme et le conservatisme, toutes choses qui semblent apporter la paix De l'esprit, mais rien n'est plus nuisible à l'esprit aventureux d'un homme un avenir assuré. Le noyau central de l'esprit vivant d'un homme, c'est une passion pour l'aventure. La joie de vivre vient de nos expériences nouvelles et donc il n'y a pas de plus grande joie qu'un horizon éternellement changeant, qu'un soleil chaque jour nouveau et différent.

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

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