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It seems young people love this movie while all parents hate it

posted 10 years ago by MandarinOrange
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I myself am not young anymore, and I'm not a parent... but that's my observation, not sure if it's right.

Young, single people romanticize Chris's journey as a soul-searching life experience, helping people along the way... being one with nature, etc.

Parents (and older folk?) see him as an ungrateful, selfish person bearing a grudge against his parents and who is woefully unprepared for his Alaskan trek.

To summarize, I think Chris should be cut some slack. I mean, didn't we all do stupid, angry things when we were young? He did take it too extreme for some people's liking, but that's up to him.

They say once your son studies philosophy, you've lost him forever.

[–] Samus Aran 10 years ago

I'm a mid-30s parent and support his journey through life. He experienced more in his final years than most do in a full lifetime. I could never fault someone, not even my own child, for pursuing what is meaningful to them.

That said, I would make damn sure any child of mine knew how to survive before risking their life alone like that!

[–] TheRebel-JimmyDean 10 years ago

Disagree with the thread title, at least in my personal experience.

I watched the film, was completely overwhelmed with how incredible I thought it was and immediately recommended it to my parents, both middle aged people.

They both loved the film just as much as I did!

So I guess it just depends on the individual, not their age or whether they are a parent.

[–] EsmagaSapos 10 years ago

Kids nowadays are stupid. They think been a hippie, an homosexual or a thug rapper is fine, because we are in a "free world", and they think everyone can do everything he wants as long as they don't affect other people. That is not true and is a immature thought.

We most live as an community, as real persons with duties and rights. «I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.» -- Travis Bickle on Taxi Driver

Parent's raise there kids, give then the best education they can, work 40 hours or more a week and then they run away because they want to be free. NO ONE IS FREE, even the birds are trapped to the sky.

Many kids died doing the same stunts that we see in this movie [just search on google]. The problem is that they think there life has no value, they don't want manual labor because informatics crap took that away. We are living in a different generation. Back in my days we work on MacDonald to have some bucks to have fun, we treated a women as a women, now they treat a women as a peace of meat. Back my days our only thought was having a job, a house, a wife, have children's and a good car to enjoy Sundays.

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[–] michael_k_powell 10 years ago

You are right. Mature people hate this movie because we do not run from our problems, especially to a hostile environment that will kill the young and dumb. (I am from the Superior National Forest in the arrowhead of MN. At lot like Alaska in some respects)

This movie is a window of what is wrong with people these days. First of all, I will admit there have been times where I wanted to just leave it all behind, but running never solves a thing because you cannot run from yourself, your problems, or the world's. Facing them is what being mature is all about.

Life is unfair, and you have to deal with it on it's terms, not run like a little p*ssy into a way of life you have NO IDEA how to live, as his death so perfectly proves. To hold this character up, or Holden Caulfield for that matter, is asinine. This 8th grade interpretation of Henry David Thoreau was nauseating.

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[–] thepartydjz 9 years ago

"This 8th grade interpretation of Henry David Thoreau"

well written