Into the wild

Question 1

Chris everyone mean

Answer 1

‘i dont understand why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often, judgement, control, the whole fucking spectrum,.. parents, hypocrites, politicians, pricks’

Question 2

leaving society going up the country

Answer 2

‘I’m gonna leave this city, got to get away’ - going up the country

Question 3

neighbours

Answer 3

‘Who cares about what the neighbours think.’

Question 4

chris on parents marriage

Answer 4

believing that his parents were ‘not meant to be,’ creating a ‘fraudulent marriage’

Question 5

dads arrogance

Answer 5

‘Dad’s arrogance made him conveniently oblivious to the pain that he has caused’

Question 6

film techniques in father being abusive

Answer 6

Penn uses the story element structuring of time in the use of a flashback showing the domestic violence that took place during Chris and Carine’s childhood. Penn applies a filter with low warmth with the attempt to show the cold nature of the father. Accompanying the story element, Penn uses a point of view shot, to show the audience the mentally scaring events that took place, consisting of the father throwing the mother across the room and pinning her to a bed, finishing with him saying ‘I AM GOD’

Question 7

chris being by himself

Answer 7

when being by yourself ‘there in that moment in that special place of time’

Question 8

chris being out there

Answer 8

“just be out there in it…big mountains, rivers, sky, game… the wild…”

Question 9

lord byron quote

Answer 9

‘There is a pleasure in the pathless woods: There is a rapture on the lonely shore; there is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more…’

Question 10

kill the false being within

Answer 10

“kill the false being within and victoriously conclude a spiritual revolution”

Question 11

chris final statement

Answer 11

“Happiness only real when shared.” “

Question 12

rejects money

Answer 12

because money makes people cautious

Question 13

bear not attacking chirs

Answer 13

The bear deciding not to attack Chris, symbolises nature rejecting him,

Question 14

chris lack of prep

Answer 14

“can’t depend entirely on leaves and berries.” therefore forced to kill moose, but lack of experience results in to his death

Question 15

Lies of the father,

Answer 15

‘didn’t tell us about his other family’

Question 16

chris wishes to be emancipated from

Answer 16

be “emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents and material excess…”

Question 17

chris on careers

Answer 17

career which he describes as a “twentieth century invention and I don’t want one”.

Question 18

Alexander supertramp rep

Answer 18

represents a super traveler wanting to be the ‘king of the road’

Question 19

Ron on meaning of life

Answer 19

the joy of life comes principally from human relationships’

Question 20

Chris’ sign on death bed

Answer 20

sign was created to establish his legacy, mentioning that he ‘lived a happy life’ thanking ‘the lord.’

Question 21

Cross cutting

Answer 21

Cross cutting to the heart break of parents, representing Chris’ impact on their lives

Question 22

Carine’s narration

Answer 22

shows the trauma Chris’ decision has placed on her, selfish element of his trip

Question 23

under shot of father looking at chris and carine

Answer 23

depicts his dominance over their lives

Question 24

society line on wanting

Answer 24

you think that you want more than you need

Question 25

chris ultimate freedom

Answer 25

“Ultimate freedom… no longer to be poisoned by civilisation”

Question 26

chris difficulty

Answer 26

‘everything has to be difficult’

Question 27

Carine’s description in Chris’ world

Answer 27

that world of abstraction, false security, parents and material excess, the things that cut Chris off from the truth of his existence.

Question 28

Carine about what chris and her had to witness

Answer 28

From as long ago as Chris and I could remember, there have been daily bouts of rage in our house. Violence that we were forced to witness.

Question 29

what embodied parents blindless?

Answer 29

the careerism and money seemed only to embolden their blindness.

Question 30

carinw, inevitable

Answer 30

It was inevitable that Chris would break away.

Question 31

chris deserve love

Answer 31

Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps to the past.

Question 32

parents reaction to chris fucking off

Answer 32

Mom and Dad became what Dad called “mobilized. “ They hired a private investigator and notified law enforcement nationwide, determined to track him down.

Question 33

carine on driving to chris leaving

Answer 33

There was something more than rebellion, more than anger that was driving him.

Question 34

With almost a year having passed since Chris’ disappearance, my parents’:

Answer 34

anger, their desperation, their guilt was giving way to pain. And pain seemed to bring them closer

Question 35

what does chris initially think happiness is

Answer 35

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them. And work which one hopes may be of some use. Then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor

Question 36

what does chris say to ron abotu his family

Answer 36

Don’t have one anymore.

Question 37

when imagining encountering parents

Answer 37

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Question 38

“you think’… society

Answer 38

You think you have to want
More than you need
Until you have it all you won’t be free

Question 39

song lyric about leaving 8

Answer 39

Sure as I'm leaving
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom
In my flesh
I leave here believing
More than I had
This Love has got
No Ceiling

Question 40

lyric empty pockets

Answer 40

Empty pockets will
Allow a greater
Sense of wealth

Question 41

lyric no fear alone

Answer 41

Have no fear
For when I’m alone
I’ll be better off than I was before

Question 42

lyric about changing

Answer 42

Who I was before

I cannot recall

Question 43

rise lyric rid of memories

Answer 43

Gonna rise up
Burning black holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold…

Question 44

lyric beside nature

Answer 44

When I walk beside her
I am a better man
When I look to leave her
I always stagger back again