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Originally Posted by Nehkara
He was a city kid and he made some mistakes in his planning. I think that he was very intelligent and certainly strong-willed but he lacked experience. I do not feel that it makes him any less an interesting person both in what he said and what he did.
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I found Into The Wild to be a very powerful movie for me. Chris's realization after 100 days in the wild, "Happiness only when shared", really stuck with me and I thought that was a very important moment... even the most solitary of loners like Chris eventually found that he was simply not happy without others to share in his happiness.
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I had read about him a long time ago (I have a similar dispensation to what he feels and enjoys) and I haven't seen the film or how it portrays him but in reality, he was somewhat proud of his lack of preparation and confident in his own abilities and that got him into trouble. There are many people around where he ended up that believe he was just being stupid. It's a great introspective story though, and very much akin to my own feelings on life.