He wrote in his journal, “EXTREMELY WEAK, FAULT OF POT. One morning, McCandless apparently woke up in intestinal distress - vomiting, delirious, and seriously ill. Unbeknownst to McCandless, he was about to learn an even harsher lesson from Mother Nature about the perils of subsisting off plants. But, according to Krakauer, McCandless was still burning far more calories than he was taking in and the calorie deficit was beginning to take its toll. He was fairly successful at killing small game with a. In 1992, emboldened by past travel and the writings of Tolstoy, Pasternak, London, Gogol, and Thoreau, he set out to escape completely from consumerism and technology by living by himself in his own private piece of America.īy the end of the film, we see McCandless, attempting to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. McCandless, an intelligent East Coast kid with a college education, was a philosopher in a young man’s body. One of the most terrifying film performances of recent memory would have to be Emile Hirsch’s 2007 portrayal of the true story of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction story of the same name.
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