These two siblings had something very odd going on, bordering on a romantic vibe. Granted, as I matured I became better friends with my sister but no one would ever confuse us for boyfriend and girlfriend as I initially did with these two. Did anyone else feel this way?
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He protected her when her parents mentally and physically abused one another. He was her protector.
shareFrom the beginning and during most of the movie i couldnt help but feel just like you did OP. And then Kristin Stewart showed up, and horny for him. She wanted him to bang her. He didn't. Some say he may have been asexual, but that's not important. I think she looked EXACTLY like his sister and that frightened him, because he knew Carine had feelings for him, and had he even touched her in even the most ambiguous way, he still would have felt he was banging her sister, which, though a hot idea, still a frowned upon one, natural a thing as natural is. Kristen showing up, and not getting banged, completely proves yours and mine feelings of an odd relationship between those two.
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Try to remember that the movie is based on a true story and that the story has been flushed out a bit in places for the movie. Kristen Stewart's character is barely mentioned in the book, so little that I don't even remember her name in the book. And she was quite a bit younger than Chris, too. I think she was 16 when he was 24.
The relationship between the brother and sister was close, they were best friends, that really isn't that uncommon. I never really questioned the relationship the way it is portrayed in the movie since I had the perspective of just coming off from reading the book. None of the weird overtones you are talking about are present in the book. There is certainly no mention of any physical similarities between the sister and the girl from Slab City. Nor does the author make any such speculations.
Supposedly though McCandless could play the *beep* out of the piano. I don't think he ever played on stage with her but it was still a great scene in the movie.
I didn't even bat an eye at their relationship, only because I was really close with my own younger brother. Our family was also really messed up - different from the McCandless', but really messed up, and our parents eventually got divorced. When your parents are effed up and unloving, and abusive, your sibling(s) sometimes become all you have in the world. Literally, *the* only person out there who can truly know and understand what you went through. No matter how many times I've tried to explain the situation with my parents to however many people, there's not a person out there who can ever truly *know* the way my brother did. Because they were his parents too. He knows what they looked like, how they spoke, how they carried themselves, their nutso behavior, the things they did. And he witnessed everything that I now only try to describe to others. With him I never had to describe it. He already knew. And we were all the other had. Hence why I never batted an eye at the sibling portrayal in this movie. The original poster of this thread obviously didn't come from a really screwed up, abusive, dysfunctional family, otherwise the sibling dynamic in this movie would make more sense.
It would have been completely unrealistic to me had they been shown the way siblings typically are always portrayed in American movies - distant, cold, sarcastic, with a weird rivalry, to the point of sometimes trying to hurt each other and mess up each other's lives. In the kind of situation they both found themselves in, with those kind of parents, and him being the older brother and she the younger vulnerable sister, it absolutely made sense that they were close and he was protective of her.
I honestly didn't get any weird vibes from it. It seemed like they had a pretty good sibling relationship, even when Chris had no contact with his family. Just from hearing Carine's words about him, she seemed to still love her brother and consider him an ally.
I didn't grow up exactly as Chris and Carine did, but I am the oldest of two and I guess I just understand it from Chris' perspective. You kind of have this unspoken bond and friendship, like you don't want to admit it, but you know that you've got each other's backs when your parents are fighting, or there's some sort of family struggle. It doesn't happen all the time with brother-sister duos, but I could relate to Chris and Carine.
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Yeah she sounded like she was desperately in love with her brother, creepy.
shareI thought she was his college girlfriend all through the movie until maybe the end.
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