Into the Wild (IDENTITY)

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Duality

Negative

Indifferent

"architectural ugliness of the place, a discomforting contrast to the magnificence of the country which surrounded it."

"They have an awesome grandeur that can fill you with exaltation or dread, and usually a combination of both."

"where the desert was larger than I could comprehend"

Threat to survival

Loneliness

"I really did enjoy the company of animals better than people"

Physical threats

"To enter that country is to be choked with dust, suffocated by waves of thrumming heat"

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Positive

Solitude

"He repeated this over and over and I swore I would never do such a thing."

"It became an animate being of which I was a part"

"now I understood that I had always been a loner"

Truth & Beauty

"endless pink tracks leading to the shimmering horizon, and then there was nothing but the dry red parchment of the dead heart"

"tall columns of silver eucalypts, winds through the town, then cuts into a narrow gap in the mountains"

"translucent, filtered through the leaves and created a fairy land."

"orange tail-feathers screeched their music through the high trees; sunlight exploded"

Conditions for self-discovery

"Desert, purity, fire, air, hot wind, space, sun, desert desert desert."

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Duality

Negative

Threat to survival

Loneliness

"You hear me? You hear me, woman?"

"Rained in - LONELY"

Close up on his writing

Physical threats

Failure to prepare the moose

Diagetic sounds of moose being sliced

"No! No! Damn it!"

Non-diagetic sounds of tense strings

Indifferent

River scene crossing back into society

Diagetic sound of water stream running

"I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh"

Appreciation for society

Positive

Condition for growth

Redemptive

Allows for learning/discovery

"the presence of force not bound to be kind to man"

Need to be close to the animals to survive in the wild

Solace

"society, you're a crazy breed" Eddie Vedder

"give me truth" Thorean

"characteristic immoderation"

"I've been wounded
I've been healed" Eddie Vedder

"I'm going to be all the way out there" Chris

Truth & Beauty

Apple scene

"I mean, you're really good."

Close up camera shots of romantic looks

The Deer

Long shots of deer in the wilderness

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Middle class values / expectations

Materialism

"I don't need a new car.
I don't want a new car." - Chris

Close up shot of his agitation

"These things, things, things, things."

"now he was emancipated
from that world of abstraction,
false security, parents
and material excess," - Carine

Regulation & Order

"escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom" - Wallace Stegner (intertextual reference)

"A in Apartheid in South African Society." - Carine

Traditional Paths

"fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty
of graduating from college" - Carine

"He just graduated today
from Emory College." -Walt

"I think careers are a 20th century
invention, and I don't want one.
You don't need to worry about me.
I have a college education." - Chris

Yelling at Mr. Franz, emphasises anger

"Son, don't you think
you ought to be getting an education? And a job?
And making something of this life?"- Mr.Franz

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Middle class values / expectations

Materialism

Regulation & Order

“shuttup and get out”

Traditional Paths

"had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class"

"half finished, half hearted attempts at different jobs and various studies"

Gender

"where's yer old man"

"Listen 'ere lady, you're fucking done for. Them c**ns'll rape youze for sure"

"it is such a female syndrome"

“next town rape case”.

"God's majestic hidey-hole, where men are men and women are an afterthought"

Race

"the blacks were unequivocally the enemy - dirty, lazy, dangerous"

"a vastly superior white world:aimless, wanderers who were backward, primitive and stupid"

"there's nothing damn well wrong with the blacks except what the whites do to them"

"Here blacks were forbidden"

Into the wild

Challenges

Physical

Crossing the River

Camera long shots

Chris looks small in comparison, unable to get to beanie (humanity / human connection)

Psychological

Fails to cook the moose

Breaks down

Camera zoom in

Zoomed in shot of maggots

LA scene

Alienated, scared back into the wild

Panning shots of buildings

Isolation

Parents' voices

"Do you hear me woman?" - Chris

Lessons

Learnt

Nature is unpredictable

"I'm fucking hungry" - Chris

Camera long shots

Chris tiny compared to the wild

"Happiness is only real when shared."

Lighting

Chris enjoys time at the sunny lit
Slabs

Chris' death is heavily filtered with a dark hue over the shots

Subtopic

"When you forgive, you love. And when you love...God's light shines on you" - Ron

Camera close ups

Chris looking up at sun shining prior to death

Ignored

Jan warns Chris about consuming leaves and berries

Dies from consuming plants

"You can't depend entirely on leaves and berries" - Jan

Wayne warns Chris about

Resentment

"Can't be juggling blood and fire all the time" - Wayne

Practical advice

Going into Alaska in Spring

"Remember Alex, no Alaska till spring." - Wayne

Rainey warns cautions about rejecting family

"Children can be pretty harsh when it comes to their parents" - Rainey

Ron emphasises the importance of human relationships

"making something of life?" - Ron

"You're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships" - Chris

"characteristic immoderation"

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Lessons

Learnt

The meaning of love

Ignored

Solitude is a condition for growth

"Before that moment, I had always supposed that loneliness was my enemy. I had seemed not to exist without people around me. But now I understood that I had always been a loner, and that this condition was a gift rather than something to be feared"

Challenges

Psychological

Death of Diggity

Into the Wild

Rejection

Personal regrowth and development

Why (formative experience)

Parents

Lies & Violence

"a murder of everyday's truth"

"fraudulent marriage"

"daily bouts of rage"

"parents, hypocrites, politicians, pricks"

Materialism

"fragility of Chrystal"

Education

Authors who inform philosophy

Apartheid (inhumanity of humanity)

"Sick society"

How

Leaves behind society

Personal regrowth and development

Mentors (all mentors show him the value of relationships eventually)

Jan + Rainey

Impact on:

Ignores advice "leaves and berries"

Ultimately evidence of the importance of human relationships

Rainey suggests forgiveness

Subtopic

Impact by:

Helps with relationship problems

Helps Jan to discuss son and acts as son

Ron

Impact on:

Physical tools which teaches him about forgiveness

Impacted by:

Adopted habits of sob

Pushes his boundaries

Gets him to hike

Writers

Impacted by:

Feed his romantic notions of nature

Tolstoy "people"

Wayne

Impacted by:

Ignores advice (about fire)

Given practical advice

Family

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Rejection

How

Leaving society to trek across the Australian outback

Not as extreme as Chris, sees people during the trip (Eddie, Rick)

Keeps radio

Why

Criticisms of society

Misogyny & Racism

Materialism

Self-indulgent negativity

Traditional paths

Sense of independence

Family

Traumatic past

Doesn't resent them in the same manner as Chris

Father encourages

Mentors

Eddie

Impact on Robyn

Teaches Robyn to understand the land - Indigenous perspective

Restrictions like time

Takes on board, advice on Kangaroo

Kurt

Impact on Robyn

Forces her to develop beyond the "archetypal female"

Robyn has to become resilient

"concrete down my spine"

Sallay

Impact on Robyn

Develops her with the camels

Helps her to understand the realities of the outback

Bull situation

Companions

Jenny & Toly

Diggity

Camels

Anthropomorphism

Rick