Into The Wild

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is a society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more...

A soulful opening of an adventure savvy's ultimate fantasy. "Career is 20th century's most harmful invention and i don't want to use it. If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.", those were the words who enlightened the path to a pathless journey. Summarizing his 22 years old life in a blue baggage, topper of the university burns away his academic excellence with all the currency bills he had in his pocket, pushes away his car and begins his dramatically philosophical soul-search. A soul search inspired not by the the beauty of nature, but by the racism, discrimination, valueless affections, misleading pre-defined knowledge base, namesake relations, life killing one life for another life, greedy systems ruled by the civic people. Where kids are brought up by their parents so that they can rise and shine and someday, their parents can claim that ya, thats my son who is ruling the world.

"I don't want to know what time it is, what day it is, or where I am." - He denies a help in form of a watch given by the last person he was seeing in his life. He adds a casual thanks, given it had been his habit since the day he had left his room, his house, his family, his society... He moralizes himself once again - "You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Thou shalt not return. And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees." and he gives away his last chance to come back to social jungle. Starts walking towards the jungles. Observes the natural landscapes carved by the nature, runs behind the animals, smells the natural woods, swims in the rivers, feels the mother nature.

He stands next to another nature lover standing at the sea shore, who had brought him back from the mountain ways. "The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head." He enters a country side farm area and meets individual farmers who had decided not to live a society life, instead, they were more organized on the basis of interest and trust. He meets a voyageur couple on high-way and feels jealous about their co-existence in much free, much independent way. Once again, he imagines about a family that is united to stay independent and which is always independent to stay united. A system where money, career and outer shine is not the only scale to measure the happiness. He works along with those farmers, plays a lot in their farms, shares their festivals.

"I have decided that i'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up... When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you. I've forgiven my society that holds the children back, ties them with rigid family rules..." He pens down another line in his notebook, the only witness of his glorious life, that a common normal person can't even imagine. The retired old man, who had been providing him stay since about a month, asks him while seeing him off at the exit of the city and opening of the huge rain woods - "I was the only son of my parents, and they were the only children of their parents. I lost my family in 1937 war and i am the only person in my generation now. Son, we had a great time together in last month. You loved my leather art. if you don't have any problem, i would like to adopt you as my grand-child." He senses his greed and diplomatically denies his request by saying "Can i answer after my endless journey is over ?" 55 years old need of a child, which was over-boosted in last month, pops out from old man's eyes chocking his 'Good Bye' in his wrinkled throat.

After spending some wonderful months in dry jungles, he finds his passage back to highway town where he meets the same traveller couple once again and first time, realises how nice it feels when you come across the known people. From the town, somehow he arranges a coin and reaches a telephone booth to speak to his sister from whom, he was running since his graduation day. while standing in the queue, he listens to an old man who was talking to his wife over the phone and who was informing her about the failure of his medical operation and about his inability to come miles away back home and meet her as it was too late. While listening to this old man's talk, his urge to speak to his sister becomes more intense. However, his wish remains wish coz he offers his only coin to the old man who was running out of coins and he wanted to speak to his wife as much as possible before his death. accidentally he sets a great example of being a civic person on his self assignment of anti-socialism. He comes back to town, participates in their music concert, makes a lot of friends around in the town.

He spends his last days on white mountains, inside an abandoned truck in the grounds full of snow. Continuing his adventure down here, when he runs out of wild animals to hunt, he tries some nuts and plant leaves from around. One of them was deadly poisonous and he ends up with paralysis, leading to slow death. He puts down these last words in his diary: I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country with the possibility of being useful to people. Happiness can not be valued without sharing it. I really need some more time so that i can go back to everyone and let all of them know what a worthless lives they all have lived. I want to let them know that living outside the system brings more pleasure to life. but it was too late by then. Too late to come back from the ultimate destination, too late to come back from the ultimate happiness, too late to come back from the real life. He looks into the sky, smiles with a feeling of surrender, finds himself with his family and his soul speaks to himself: "What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"

Here was my take on the movie review of movie, Into The Wild. The movie is based upon a novel - adoption of a true story about Christopher McCandless and his adventures. However, this is something what i always want to do myself. Why everyone has to live a stereotype life? why we are not allowed to do something other than what we are supposed to do !!! why everyone has to be a part of economy cycle? I soooo want to give up everything. I want to run into the world with nothing in hands. I want to meet as many people as possible. I want to live at least one day with all sort of cultures, i want to share their work for once. i want to celebrate the way they do, i want to taste all sort of food, i want to be close with everything that exists in nature ! i want to live a life on my own that is not dependent upon existing society. i dont want to die like a normal human being who plans everything in the beging and wastes his life for society. i want to go as crazy as possible, want to go places with no money in hands. Anyone ready to join this madness ?