I think this will do.
I watched "Into the Wild" last night. I'm an EXTREMELY picky movie-watcher, so since this came highly recommended on numerous occasions, I knew I had to see it.
On a tangent...when will popular movies quit banking on predictability? Scary movies are the worst. Even comedies are extremely predictable. I guess they'll stop being predictable when humans stop being predictable. And yeah, that will never stop.
But it makes me so uncomfortable when movies that are so predictable are popular. Is it REALLY necessary to make like 3,000 versions of Scary Movie? Couldn't we use that money to save a small country somewhere? Or towards our national debt?
I think we need to re-teach our children exactly what real entertainment is. No, not penis jokes and nipples...but maybe, JUST MAYBE going outside and playing in the park???
Too much, I know. After all, child obesity is a disease (????!!!).
It's been a long week/weekend.
"Into the Wild"...hands down one of the most moving and all around beautiful movies I've ever seen. Even the dialogue stopped me in my thoughts. I want/need to see it again (like "I <3 Huckabees"...goodness, I love that movie and I'll never get tired of it).
But this movie really moved me. Afterwards, I looked around in my room, at my things, thinking of what I didn't need. I went through my closet and piled up a stack of clothes that I'll never wear. I pulled more of my books on my higher shelve down to my floor-level bookshelf....movement...action. It created a force within me. Which I think, movies should do. Any type of public influence should postively make you grow as a human being. And I felt a little taller and more capable.
Definitely not heading out to Alaska to give it all up, but I internally progressed while my hands made some changes.
So yeah, watch this one. It's a very extreme version of how I feel about life and society and all the unnecessary crap we make ourselves believe in, but just let it sink in. Listen to what the characters have to say and then recycle, give your clothes to charity, hold a door open for someone, something that says that as humans, we can progress in a positive manner that can change anything and everything. And realize that true freedom can be found in not taking for granted all the good things we have in our lives and allowing your mind to see/feel/taste/hear/smell every inch of it.
*steps off of soapbox*
word.
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I read the book when I was 19 and took off hitchhiking within a few months. So, I'm cool.
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