Tracks And Into The Wild Quotes Flashcards
Tracks Transformative change quotes
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“Pairing away allows for a different kind of consciousness to emerge. In some ways, I suspect I never recovered from it”- postscript
“Shedding burdens”- part 2 title name
Tracks “which one do you choose”- which road do you take and there is no turning back
Self “is a reaction between the mind and stimulus”- change in mantra of who she is
“This is a rock…this is part of a net… this, which everything acts upon, acts” change of thinking, thinks in a more broad manner than when she initially started
“Those two weeks were strangely disappointing… I was exactly the same person I was when I begin”- she openly used the desert to change, perhaps why she didn’t change as much as she wanted because she used the desert as any other westerner would.
“To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly to gamble. It is not safe”- used nature to test themselves
Tracks loneliness quotes
4
“My aloneness was a treasure I guarded like a jewel”
“Sense of relief and belonging that I needed nothing and no one”
“It was as traumatic as the death of a human…she had taken the place of humans”
“I woke to the reality of loneliness” - initially enjoys loneliness but realises how empty actual loneliness can make one feel
Tracks identity quotes 7
“I was now public property”
“Object of ridicule of small minded sexists” - this is what community has projected onto her
“Healthy, integrated and whole”- she wants to be as humble and honest as Eddie, this is who she wants to be
“Rabbit”- what she actually is
“Heart was beating like a cornered rabbit”- the identity she takes around the press
“Camel lady… nice belittling ring”
“It was such a relief to be free of disguises and prettiness and attractiveness”
Tracks gender quotes 6
“Infernal cowardice…Female syndrome… the weakness of animals to be prey”- cowardice allows man to prey upon women
“You are a very lucky girl dat I do dis for you”- belittles Davidson based on gender
“Patronising disbelief”- shocked that a women is doing such a manly activity
“An object to be ridiculed by small minded sexists”
“Where’s yer old man”- implying ownership of women
“Men are men and women are an afterthought”
Tracks courage quotes 2
“The last burning bridge back to my old self collapsed”-courage to pursue he dream of travelling “into and about the central desert”
“Pulled the trigger” and “blew her brains out” and shot Kate and diggity.
Tourism/ ownership of journey tracks quotes
5
“I was beginning to it as a story for other people”
“I had sold a great swatch of of my freedom and most of the trip’s integrity for four thousand dollars”
“Anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it?”
“I taught her everything she knows about camels”- Davidson helped provide ten seconds of fame for Alice springs
“Public property”
Tracks Nature and god revealed through nature quotes 9
“We camped that day in a deep luminous glassy green light”
“Range looking menacingly like some petrified prehistoric monster… that had a profound psychological effect”
“I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, to down all the glory of that magnificent heaven.”- God is present in nature, looking down upon her and helping give her strength
“My camels, My home”
“It was like a vast untended communal garden, the closest thing to earthly paradise that I can imagine”- Desert is more peaceful than being in society, paradise being an ode to the garden of Eden, which is believed to be a chosen land.
“The land was not wild but tame, bountiful, benign, giving, as long as you knew how to see it, how to be part of it”
“The openness and emptiness which had first threatened were now a comfort which allowed my sense of freedom and joyful aimlessness to grow”- nature helping assist the transformational change
“Mythological crucible”
“To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly to gamble. It is not safe”- used nature to test themselves
Survival quotes in tracks
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“Rabbits, too, have their survival mechanisms”
“my heart was pumping like a cornered rabbit’s”
“You are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be”
“There is nothing so real as to having to think about survival”
“If you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find your boundaries… survival in a desert, then, requires you lose this fragmentation… survival may be the ability to be changed by environment”- you have to adapt to survive or you will struggle. She adapted by changing her mind, her way of thinking and was able to
Have “the boundaries of [herself] stretched out”
“Panic and shake, panic and shake” channeling her inner rabbit.
“Camel trips… do not begin or end, they merely change form.”- that you will always be challenged in life, and you will always have to adapt and survive like you do on a trip
Tracks materialism quotes 3
“I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary”
“Menstrual blood…followed the laws of gravity and rolled down my leg”
“The importance of social custom fell away from me.And the awareness of its absurdity has never really left me”
Tracks family quotes 2
“All the meaningless pain our family had suffered might somehow be symbolically absolved, laid to rest, through this gesture of mine”
“Sailing in the most beautiful turquoise sea…then suddenly, we were on a mud-bank… don’t worry darling, if we can float on water, we can float on mud.
Family Into the wild
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“Daily bouts of rage at our house”
The violence “was also like theatre”
“You’re going to do bad things to children. You are going to want to die”
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love, they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past”- mcc talking about himself
“People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss”
“Dad’s arrogance made him oblivious to the pain he caused”
“The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness”- parents did not understand that Chris needed to be cared for in a delicate way.
“When you think more than you want, you’re thoughts begin to bleed”- can’t think about his family without hurting himself mentally
“You hear me women you hear me women”- in the wild yet still can’t escape the pain of his family
Family video when Chris receives the car- grey and blue colouring juxtaposed with the laughter in the background, highlighting the falsehood of their family bonds.
The hand shake Walt gives Chris for graduating followed by him getting told off for letting carbine drive his car highlights how the family is just a mere formality and nothing more for Walt. Contrasted with the hugging and screaming of other graduates
Society quotes into the wildest 9
“Society, I hope your not angry, if I disagree”- highlights paternalistic nature of society. Society is presented through Walt and the family
“Alexander supertramp”- a rejection of society and its ideals to adopt a life of travel. Cuts up his identification as a physical representation of rejection
“There is a society, where none intrudes”- one can gain the benefits of society without having to live in society with other individuals
“No longer to be poisoned by civilisation, he flees to become lost in the wild”- note Davidson refers to civilisation as a disease
His car is old and out of places and looks like it could “blow up” at any moment, link to him being out of place in society
“I hate to think of a wild man like you in a cage” connects with Wayne as he is like MCC and rejects conformity
Reads Tolstoy near the end of the movie, and the word “people” gets enlarged, implying that it has a profound effect on McC and that he is double backing on his hatred against society
Born to leave, has a photo of Clint Eastwood, a famous renegade on his door, he didn’t conform
Transformative change into the wild 8
“To call each thing by its right name”
“You’re wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships”
“You don’t mind calling it god”
“When you forgive, you love, and when you love, god’s light shines on you”
“Happiness is only real when shared”
“I have had a happy life and thank the lord. Good bye and may god bless all”
Juxtaposition at the start “to become lost in the wild” and end “I have literally become trapped in the wild”
Nature into the wild 7
The wide shots of mcc in nature, highlighting the vastness of nature and his relative insignificance
“I’m hungry, I’m fucking hungry”
“I love not the man less, but nature more”
“Freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up” - the wild makes him trapped in the end.
“I wish I had never shot the moose. One of the greatest tragedies of my life”
“The seas only give harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong” nature acts as a way to test his boundaries,
This is enforced when he nearly dies trying to return to society and when he looks over the Colorado river.
“The world begins where the road ends”- canned heat track ‘going up the country’ shows that nature is an allure for Mcc
“The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences”- allure into the wild
“Gods placed it all around us”
Materialism into the wild 10
“Things things things things”
“When you have more than you want, you need more space”- leaves because he has too many material goods
High pitched Non diegetic sounds and a blurring animation when in Los Angeles to show he is disconnected from society and its norms
“The first million seemed to embolden their blindness”
“You can’t depend entirely on leaves and berries. I don’t know if you want to depend on much more than that.”
“I don’t need money, makes people cautious”
“These are all my savings, feed someone with it”- letter to Oxfam
“Money and power is an illusion” link to quote about Thoreau “rather than love, than money, than faith, than fairness, give me truth. All MCc wants
Mom rubs fingers together in flashback implying money and wealth whilst the grey colouring implies a poor life spiritually and mentally.
Floats down the river naked to show that he doesn’t need material goods to be peaceful, naked implies perhaps a burden has been shed
“Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless”
