Into the Wild 2007
It doesn't make sense to me. Judgment. Control. All that, the whole spectrum.
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Happiness only real when shared.
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_To measure yourself_ at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions.
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But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines through you.
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And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong.
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_An_ aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta.
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The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness.
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This fact suddenly redefined Chris and me as bastard children.
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Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist.
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Instincts that seem to sense the threat of a loss so huge and irrevocable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
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Their guilt was giving way to pain. And pain seemed to bring them closer. Even their faces had changed.
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You know, parents, hypocrites, politicians, pricks.
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When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.
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God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience.
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I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.
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He discovered that our parents' stories of how they fell in love and got married were calculated lies masking an ugly truth.
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They made his entire childhood seem like fiction.
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Well my friend, all is not well on the hippie front.
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_With_ almost a year having passed since Chris' disappearance my parents' anger had turned to desperation.
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And I trust that everything he is doing has to be done. This is our life.
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I'm going to miss you when you go.
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You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.
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Society, man! You know, society! Cause, you know what I don't understand?
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_They_ walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
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_This is a_ mistake. It's a mistake to get too deep into all that kind of stuff.
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In California, he'd looked up some old family friends.
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Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
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You're just living, man. You're just there, in that moment, in that special place and time.
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Outdoorsman. What's your fascination with all that stuff?
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I'm going to Alaska.
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Can't be juggling blood and fire all the time!
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And Mom, in the shame and embarassment of a young mistress, became his accomplice in deceit.
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That poor girl's about ready to vault herself onto a fencepost.
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And I know you have problems with the church too...
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You know, about getting out of this sick society. Society!
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These revelations struck at the core of Chris' sense of identity.
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When they met, Dad was already married.
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By the deep sea, and music in its roar;
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You are really good. I mean, you're like, a hundred thousand times better than like any apple I've ever had.
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Still everything Chris is saying has to be said.
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That people soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.
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But there is some kind of bigger thing that we can all appreciate and it sounds to me you don't mind calling it God.
It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations.
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What 'people' we talking about?
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I want to tell you something. From bits and pieces of what you have told me about your family, your mother and your dad...
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_And_ now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more...
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Their fraudulent marriage and our father's denial of his other son was, for Chris, a murder of every day's truth.
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The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
_As_ soon as I heard he was home, I ran into his room to talk to him.
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He felt his whole life turn, like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow, suddenly running uphill.
Dad's arrogance made him conveniently oblivious to the pain he caused.
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_Chris_ was writing his story, and it had to be Chris who would tell it.
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Some people feel like they don't deserve love.
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Facing the blind deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage.
You're so tasty, you're so organic, so natural. You are the apple of my eye, ha!
But I catch myself and remember that these are not the parents I grew up with.
But when it came to my brother, they did not seem to know or care that their course of secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them.
Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here.
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
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I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships.
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It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us.
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Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North.
I'm gonna be all the way out there, all the way fucking out there. Just on my own.
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If I wanted to paddle down the river, where's the best place to launch out of?
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Kids! Look what your dad is doing to me!
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You know, big mountains, rivers, sky, game. Just be out there in it, you know? In the wild.
I had begun to wonder if I can understand what Chris is saying any longer.
Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.
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Maybe when I get back, I can write a book about my travels.
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The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.
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Thou shalt not return, 'cause 'the West is the best.'
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Two weeks after Chris's death, moose hunters discovered his body in the bus.
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The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up...
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On September 19, 1992, Carine McCandless flew with her brother's ashes from Alaska to the eastern seaboard.
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You know, no fucking watch, no map, no axe, no nothing. No nothing. Just be out there. Just be out there in it.
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My parents understood that a fine crystal glass had to be cared for or it may be shattered.
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She convinces herself it's Chris, that's her son whenever she passes a stray.
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And even after Chris was born, Dad had had another son with his first wife, Marcia, to whom he was still legally married.
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That's right! I'm God!
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
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There is society, where none intrudes,
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The year Chris graduated high school, he bought the Datsun used and drove it cross-country. He stayed away most of the summer.
I don't need a new car, I don't want a new car, I don't want anything, any of these things, things, things, things.
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