I saw the movie
Into the Wild at the Oldsmar Theater near Tampa, FL back in late October of 2007 and was interested in finding out more about the man Christopher Johnson McCandless who gradually shed a lot of his identity to go find the wild so to speak in Alaska.
The book
Into The Wild is less sympathetic than the movie to Mr. McCandless's desire to devote himself to nature.
Anyone else read this interesting book
Into the Wild or see the movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn?
The movie poster for
Into the Wild made me really want to see it. This poster
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/ is a picture of an actor who plays Mr. McCandless looking out into the wilderness on top of an abandoned 1940s circa Fairbanks City Transit System bus-- bus # 142. The bus looks like it was abandoned as a hunters' shelter for decades.
The
Into the Wild book doesn't treat McCandless as mentally ill just someone who really marched to a different drummer who made several tragically fatal mistakes even if some of the Alaskans thought he was bonkers to attempt something like he did back in 1992.
He starved to death in the 142 bus around August 18, 1992.