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Liz:
I really want to see Into the Wild, but the odds of it ever coming to Fargo seem slim to none. I will have to wait for it to come out on DVD, then hope some store here gets it.

Runs_With_Scissors:

--- Quote from: Linds on 21 Oct 2007, 15:56 --- And it's an interesting story, so why not? But I did hear that Alaskans don't really care for the story because of the "going out there to die" thing. Is that why you don't get it? (Just curious!)

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That's about it, yeah. There were some conversations in school about it, and a lot of people agreed that he was 'just an ill-prepared tourist'. I really have to read the book and do some other reading before I make a statement like that though.

Lines:
Yeah, that's not what it was at all. The general idea was he didn't want to be around anyone anymore and wanted to live on his own - alone. He ended up in Alaska on his travels and stayed there and just so happened died there, as no one was around to help him and his diet basically sucked. He didn't go with the intention of "Hey, Alaska seems like a great place to die alone!"

Mnementh:
There is a great little story about how a local hunter swore high and low that he didn't shoot a caribou like he claimed and that the bones found in his camp weren't caribou bones.  Then they got the bones DNA tested.  Seems that the locals don't know shit either (they were caribou bones.)

Regardless, read the book to understand the why of it.

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