A quiet constant strum on the
guitar— Chris McCandeless is now at the border control station at the Sea of
Cortez, December 2nd, 1990. After kayaking down a river to Mexico
and passing back through the United States, he is questioned by the border
patrol of his identification and before they come back he tramps to a nearby
train and rides back to the cities. The time for the scene is now 1 hour and 12
minutes. The city lights are highlighted against the black night sky and loud
automobile sounds are echoing throughout the scene. Chris ends up looking from
the outside on the inside of a party and sees himself in a business suit and
hair slicked back; as soon as he realizes that he is in the heart of the city
he rushes out of it. His blank face is highlighted against the black highway
with a constant motion of cars, and his eyes slowly, after being so indiscreet,
falls into a confused and irritated look. He walks away with the silhouette of
his body against red and green lights reentering with a new chapter titled “Manhood”.
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This scene is about half way
into the whole movie and really is the most significant scene for the whole
movie; after all of Chris’s adventures so far he is still irritated by the fact
of going back into a civilization where he is in a business suit and socially
drinking. Chris is probably afraid of himself becoming that man he doesn’t want
to be and so strives even more to get to his great Alaskan adventure. The structure
of this scene not only is dreary and echoing of industrial machines, but is
condensed in a way that provides both effective emotion appeal for the viewer
of the film and the character within the film. This scene alone depicts the
moral values of Chris and his motivation for wanting to get away from the
materialistic things in life and become Alexander Supertramp.
-April Opatik
I really liked how you described this important scene from the film. It really depicted why Chris decided to return to Alaska. I remember somewhat this film. It was very interesting. I think that he also reasons to live in Alaska based upon example of what his father showed growing up. He did not want to become like his father. It's been awhile since I've seen this movie.
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