引子 ：“Happiness only real when shared”
Adapted from the novel of the same name by American best-selling author Jon Krakauer, the film "Survival in the Wild" abandons the car, burns off cash, leaves the good family environment, and the 20-year-old Christopher travels alone to the most inhospitable place in North America, to the inaccessible Alaskan wilderness, becoming a real wanderer. Finally swallowed up by nature inexorably, starving to death on a bus. When such a real event is moved to the screen, it is undoubtedly shocking.
Director Sean Penn spent a decade adapting the novel due to a glimpse of it in the bookstore, and finally completed the filming of the film. The film won "Best Picture" at the 17th Gotham Awards in New York and "Best Original Film Song" at the 65th Golden Globe Awards. The director uses a documentary approach to show the highest state of an idealist, four to Alaska, in the lens of this film we can see the majestic landscape of nature, the shooting is all from the real picture, including the actor's efforts for this film, losing 20 pounds of weight, which is also the sincerity shown by the film.
Chris's parents are successful people in the secular sense, and his own achievements are also excellent, he worships Tolstoy, Jack London and Thoreau, perhaps influenced by these three people, just for Chris such an idealist, the world is what he thinks is the most meaningless thing, and most adolescent children, Chris who first saw the original appearance of society began to question the meaning of human survival, but also questioned his original family, Perhaps born with an education that has a certain beautification of parents and their love, teenage Chris saw the explicit side of his parents' marriage. Whether it was an escape or an attempt to find himself, this trip that never returned had been brewing for four years.
The director specially arranged several partners for Chris - Chris's sister, as a person who knew him, told us about their family in the form of a narration, she knew what kind of person he was, so she understood all the behavior of her brother, so she did not feel strange when she saw the abandoned car. And during Chris's journey, there are also people who constantly help him, telling him where to go kayaking, how to roast wild deer, and there are 16-year-old beautiful girls who love Chris's unworldly temperament. And the last single old man Chris met told him that he should go back to the family, back to normal interpersonal relationships, and why the director arranged for people who held this view to appear at the end seemed to be intentional. The first half of the film shows us a wanderer we should have in our hearts - making like-minded friends, meeting a magic bus in the wilderness, kayaking in the rushing river, indulging in the magnificent beauty of nature, and when he sees wild deer running in groups, his eyes are very moving.
And the second half of the film is too real, it is difficult to walk without a text, Chris was beaten because he rubbed the train, because there was no place to sleep and went to the shelter, when he was in the city, he found that he had no way to integrate into the city, he looked at his peers who were laughing and laughing, thinking that he had a great future, the freshness of wandering had passed, and Chris fell into confusion. And one of the deadliest problems was hunger, and he hunted a deer and got maggots because he didn't pickle it properly, which was his saddest day, and he wrote in his diary, "I'd rather not have killed this deer." Because of hunger, he shouted "fuck off" to the nature he loved. The belt was carved with hole after hole, and he lost more than 20 pounds, and in the end, he could no longer find anything to eat, Chris became weak, and finally ate the poisonous fruit, he could only wait for his death on the magic bus.
As soon as the story was exposed, it caused widespread discussion: some people said that his journey was a suicidal journey, and that wandering without any preparation was undoubtedly a contempt for nature; others admired his courage, believing that his spirit was the purest, and behind the film revealed a truth: idealists are ultimately being killed by ideals. In addition to Chris's physical pain in the second half of the narrative, what we feel more is his psychological pain and loneliness, his enthusiasm to go to the embrace of nature, and nature has no pity for him, no sudden miracles, only constant hunger and weight, and empty and tired mind. At the end of the film, the father stumbles and falls on the road, Chris sees his parents waiting for him to return in a hallucination, he hugs them, at this moment, has he understood and forgiven his original family?
Chris in the true story did not write the words "Happiness only real when shared" at the time of his death, and no one knows what he thought before he died, only that he did not regret it, he said: "I have lived a very happy life in this life." "Happiness only real when shared" is also the output of the director's point of view. The film also does not force the audience to give the audience a value - is such behavior worth it or not? It is impossible to appreciate the beauty of nature without stepping into nature, but the consequences of such an act of abandoning everything should be anticipated before departure. You have to experience all this for yourself.