Happiness is Not Real Unless Shared...
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growyourwingsMovie rec...
In the past few days I've watched this movie twice (once alone, once with my husband) and will likely be watching it again with my son.
It was a film released in 2007. I'd never heard of it. It's "Into the Wild" directed by Sean Penn.
Here's a good summary (source - don't read the rest of this review if you don't want to be spoiled for the ending.)
It's a very moving and at times, emotionally hitting, movie. Even my 16-year-old son, who's seen only parts of it and now wants to watch the whole thing with me, even Tim was moved by what little he saw.
Even though I watched the movie again last night with Bob, I wasn't really thinking about posting about it here. But then this morning I came online to find multiple posts wishing well for Jared & Gen--some with a few of their engagement photos, and the movie quote "Happiness is not real unless shared." came to mind. Which got me thinking about the movie and so here I am. When that line appeared in the movie, Bob reached over to hold my hand.
If you end up watching the movie (or if even if you decide not to) you should really google Chris McCandless. When I started watching the movie I knew absolutely nothing about it at all. It wasn't until the end that I learned it was based on a true story. I'd found the movie only because of a personal video I'd found online about a local Native American community..the video was set to the song "Society" by Eddie Vedder, which I'd never heard before...and I LOVED that song! So I checked out the vocal artist and found the song was from the soundtrack from a movie called Into the Wild. And I bought the movie on iTunes on a total whim based on the reviews and the description.
Here's the song along with some screen shots from the movie...
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In the past few days I've watched this movie twice (once alone, once with my husband) and will likely be watching it again with my son.
It was a film released in 2007. I'd never heard of it. It's "Into the Wild" directed by Sean Penn.
Here's a good summary (source - don't read the rest of this review if you don't want to be spoiled for the ending.)
"The film was directed by Sean Penn, whose personality and opinions I have little use for, but whose artistry I find unsurpassed. It is based on the eponymous best-seller by Jon Krakauer, about Christopher McCandless, a young man who "dropped out," as they used to say in the sixties, only without "tuning in" to any movement or "turning on" with any known drug. McCandless is played beautifully by Emile Hirsch, and the soundtrack by Michael Brook and Eddie Vedder achieves perfection. (I don't use that word very often.) What McCandless did was abandon family, friends, future prospects, and affluent lifestyle, to embark on a quest without definition that, to judge by the film (I have not read the book), acquired definition as it went along.
"Stay with the film, all the way to the end, and you will see. Into the Wild possesses Tolstoy's most essential quality: an ability to move from the center of everyday existence to the outer periphery, where life and death and transcendence meet and touch; and to do it all with a sure hand that, in its power and wisdom, resembles the hand of God."
"Stay with the film, all the way to the end, and you will see. Into the Wild possesses Tolstoy's most essential quality: an ability to move from the center of everyday existence to the outer periphery, where life and death and transcendence meet and touch; and to do it all with a sure hand that, in its power and wisdom, resembles the hand of God."
It's a very moving and at times, emotionally hitting, movie. Even my 16-year-old son, who's seen only parts of it and now wants to watch the whole thing with me, even Tim was moved by what little he saw.
Even though I watched the movie again last night with Bob, I wasn't really thinking about posting about it here. But then this morning I came online to find multiple posts wishing well for Jared & Gen--some with a few of their engagement photos, and the movie quote "Happiness is not real unless shared." came to mind. Which got me thinking about the movie and so here I am. When that line appeared in the movie, Bob reached over to hold my hand.
If you end up watching the movie (or if even if you decide not to) you should really google Chris McCandless. When I started watching the movie I knew absolutely nothing about it at all. It wasn't until the end that I learned it was based on a true story. I'd found the movie only because of a personal video I'd found online about a local Native American community..the video was set to the song "Society" by Eddie Vedder, which I'd never heard before...and I LOVED that song! So I checked out the vocal artist and found the song was from the soundtrack from a movie called Into the Wild. And I bought the movie on iTunes on a total whim based on the reviews and the description.
Here's the song along with some screen shots from the movie...
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