Into the Wild: Constructing Wilderness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- A brief environmental video essay that analyzes the movie Into the Wild. I specifically look at how Sean Penn's fictionalized Chris McCandless envisions and constructs wilderness via two pathways. The first is through a binary between wild nature and society. The second is a characterization of wilderness as a place of transcendence--a construction that pulls heavily from the works of Thoreau and Emerson.
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the alarm sound is triggering me, but very informative!!
Zara Mclean i thought i was alone on that
@@grownwoman777 this made me laugh, and i just did my English exam about the film
@@grownwoman777 SAME, I was so triggered! Good video tho
The soundtrack was very alarming. Great content though, as always.
agreed. some ringtone n background
I respect this guy. Although his death is unwanted, he lived his life exactly the way he wanted. That’s important. And what I took from this video is that we romanticise nature and wanted to embrace the raw nature by escaping from the society. But the nature can also be dangerous just as society.
you've just saved my english essay, bless you good man! (also this analysis is great, you've definitely earned yourself a subscriber)
haha same. This is the only way my adhd can revise
Why on earth would you leave the alarm going through it, and how can you in good faith leave that in the final cut
It's good to see a video essay on such a fantastic film. Just one question though, when you said fictional McCandless, did you mean that the character in the movie is a work of fiction or that it is a fictionalised version of the real McCandless?
Thanks! And yeah the second one. While Krakauer and Sean Penn were able to glean some of what McCandless was like/said through interviews and letters, the person we see onscreen is what Sean Penn hoped Chris McCandless to be. So, when I say "fictionalized" I'm trying to look at Sean Penn's onscreen interpretation of Chris McCandless, not the real McCandless who walked into the Yukon alone.
The alarm noise througout infuriates.
Who's alarm is going off! Please, shut it off. I'm trying to watch a video here.
loved this
Fantastic video, very interesting analysis. Thank you very much for making this video.
thank you for this video!
I never viewed this as informative just depressing but it did have a message
Christopher MCcandless was a real guy though
Whatever you say, city boy
the iphone alarm sound is making this video unwatchable
Living with the society is also as important as living in the wild
great video.....but I would rather be in the wilderness then in society.....society is selfish and cruel by intention ...nature may be cruel but it is by instinct not selfish choice!
Neither was society, society is just the product of the human nature
@@devvyas6751 Greed seems to encompass human nature. It didn't have to be this way.
Human beings are a product of evolution and our brains are subject to the laws of physics. There is no free will, so your distinctive perception of "instinct" vs "selfish choice" is an illusory one.
People thinking that they're somehow separate from the universe and not inescapably bounded is the very thing that leads to these "selfish choices". So please stop thinking that there is libertarian free will.
I disagree just because wilderness is impacted by human needs doesn’t mean that we can still not receive the benefits from it that we did when it was less so.
C U Next Friday?... CUNF?
He died happily, that's what mattered
did he reallllly? he had lotta regrets and daydreamed about going back to his friends/family in the end
talk about psycho-analyizing a simple concept! Jeez! The kid wanted to be a lone adventurer, thats it, who cares what you think of it.
Whatyoudo shut the fuck up you goddamn tool.
Into the Wild is anything but is a simple concept. It plays on themes of the importance of family and community. The protagonist struggled with the nature of his community (the elite, consumerist lifestyle) and his family (the instability and abuse) and sought a different, more spiritual experience in the isolation of the wild. Every time he found himself naturally gravitating back to community and family (the farmer, the bohemians, old man) he got scared and ran. It wasn't adventure he was looking for. He needed to understand why he wants community and family, and what sort of relationships he wanted to have.
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Smoke a spliff or two mate going to do yourself a mischief acting like that..
@@scottpepper7028 do yourself a mischief? Is that an english phrase? or jibberish?