Into the wild

Watched this show Into the Wild by Sean Penn with Ms M in Copenhagen. We suppose to go out early in the morning but this show make us stay in the hotel room.

It is base on true story of Chris McCandless hitchhiked throughout the American West in the early 90's, logging thousands of miles and befriending many. He was from a wealthy family but he decided to turn away from the regular way of living his life. He decides to escape civilization and heads his way to Alaska and living in the wild. He gave up his car, gave away his money, shoulders his backpack and start his journey through the country. He even gave up his name and call himself Alexander Supertramp. On his trip, he meets alot of people.

He finally make it to Alaska and enter the wild and found himself an old bus where he decided to stay. He called it the Magic Bis and became his new home in between the great scenery of white mountains, green forest and clear river. He manages to survive quiet well, but at some point in time he decides to leave. This attempt fails, since the river he conquered on his way in meanwhile became a rapid stream - impossible to get through. Thus he has to return to his Magic Bus. His dream becomes his fate. He fails to conserve enough meat. He is running out of rice and finally picks the wrong plants to eat. He becomes sick and weak and finally dies of hunger. Two weeks later his dead body is discovered in the bus by some elk hunter. He died in 1992 on an ill-fated journey into the Alaskan wilderness and I was fascinated by his story.

If you have time, please rent this movie and watch....