tiggy, Catherine Keener and Hal Holbrook broke me in that. I felt compelled to keep watching the movie even if I didn't necessarily "get it" because the characters were so interesting.

The why of it at the end (and why Chris didn't make further attempts to escape and get to civilization before he reached his weakened state) boggles my mind but I think reconstructing his stories from his journals, we can only speculate as to his motives.

Catherine Keener

Bwuh? I didn't know she was in that! Now I have to rent it. Major girlcrush on CK.

She's great in it. Not a fan of the film, though. Although I thought the performances and the directing were amazing, I really disliked self-righteous, heedless Chris McCandless and felt bad for all the people he hurt along his journey.

I didn't know anything about that film going in. It really, really upset me. I'm an idiot like McCandless in many ways, it turned out.

Although I thought the performances and the directing were amazing, I really disliked self-righteous, heedless Chris McCandless and felt bad for all the people he hurt along his journey.

That's why I can't watch that movie (or Grizzly Man, for that matter).

Unsurprisingly, Grizzly Man is on my list of favourite movies.

I don't necessarily think he was self-righteous. he never expected to change anyone's minds about the way they lived their life. he just did things the way he wanted to do them.

I do agree about the heedless part though. he seemed pretty oblivious to the affect he had on others.

Yeah, the bits in the movie I found upsetting were his sisters comments.

That's why I can't watch that movie (or Grizzly Man, for that matter).

Me too. Hate that kind of selfish stupidity so much.

Boy, I loved Grizzly Man. I don't think Treadwell was selfishly stupid so much as a delusional Don Quixote tilting at imagined giants.

Never saw the movie in question, though.