He ran away because, basically, he was angry at his parents so I imagine that’s part of his mystique. If I recall correctly from the book (and it’s been about ten years so I could have some details wrong) he hated his dad and was disappointed in his mom for looking the other way while his dad ran around on her. He…

So I am going to make a comment about gender here, which will probably set some people off, but here it is:

So much in this performance.

Agreed. It’s similar to Walden in that it is really annoying when you read it as an adult.

He wandered off into the Alaskan wilderness with a bag of rice and a laminated card of edible plants (if memory serves). Have you spent much time backpacking or anything like that? Because as someone who spent quite some time in the Scouts, I can assure you that he was unprepared to a ludicrous degree. He was either…

His personal philosophy had all the depth of the college anarchist that stops bathing for 3 weeks. It just happened to also be stupid enough to kill him.

Yes yes yes. I have seen the movie so if it’s not a fair portrayal of the real McCandless then I apologise but the McCandless in the movie is a selfish brat. He walks out on his family without a word - not caring if they’re worried sick because he’s on a journey you guys. He doesn’t respect nature, doesn’t take the…

Yeah. Some people said he was a good outdoorsman who hunted and fished enough to feed himself and would have made it back if there weren’t a mistake in the edible-botany book he was using and unusual flooding that year.

I’ve maintained this since reading the book in high school: Christopher McCandless was a stupid, naive, unprepared dink who thought he could piss in Nature’s face and get away with it. He got lucky a few times, but sooner or later if you don't respect Nature it will kill you dead.

There would be a mad arborealist society containing a frightful gossip, probably that one old woman with the creepy funeral director son.

Trees: well, fuck you then, make your own damn oxygen.

The tree would have collapsed and crushed a passing cyclist or something equally ludicrous and wonderful.

It’s like something out of Midsomer, but dumber.

... God, the breakup song is going to be the stuff of legends, Revolutionary War Pt 2, and will kill the Special Relationship between US/UK DEAD. I cannot fucking wait.

Wow. How did they even know who the heck they were dating? Was it just months of

They should give him the loincloth but duct tape his mouth closed.

Frances Bean Cobain has been married and divorced already?!?

I mean, you know she was going to get hounded about this until she gave a quote (as will everyone he has ever dated), and I think she handled it as best as she could, given the circumstances. “I didn’t have that experience, but that was a long time ago” is a pretty neutral statement.

I don’t know anything about Frances’s situation, so maybe someone who knows more about it can illuminate me, but I’m curious why the LAPD were utilized ? I get keeping the peace, but, like. What is up with Isaiah Silva where that is necessary ?

Hiddles is an actor, he can make it look better. I want to believe.