He went and did what he wanted not caring what anyone thought about him . How many of us can say that ? Not many , because we are so afraid of what we really want in life. Many of us wont ever go find our true happiness but yet some of you call him stupid ? maybe you who are calling him dumb are the dumb ones for not understanding .

Chris is a hero for me... The real human being

By watching this movie I come to a point that happiness comes from loosing the desires

at least he knew what he want and went for it , chris is from the greatest men thank you rest in peace .

The Mccandless family were upper middle class, but Walt had so many other kids besides Chris and Corinne. I'm sure support of those children costed quite a bit.

INTO THE WILD!!!! THANK YOU CHRIS.

Last guy is kinda douchish to me. The guy is dead. I mean say what you will, he gave away $24,000 and had the guts to follow his dream. Neither of which, most people will ever have the heart to do even if they could.

Before you judge and hate on Chris, actually read the book, "Into The Wild." Study his life, read about him, watch interviews and more importantly try to relate to him! Chris is defiantly not the average person, but I sure as help don't expect him to be. You have to realize the idea of what he was trying to put out there. He had a beautiful soul. One of a kind. No matter how crazy he was I respect him and what he put on there for us to learn by. "Money's just paper, but it affects people like poetry."

Kris lived a free man and died a free man God bless all who want to live like he did and follow his foot steps be safe and good luck to you.

Chris seemed to share this rare personality type with people like Everett Ruess where rambling freedom and natural beauty produces a happiness or even an addictive high. The danger level increases with confidence every time they succeed in a quest. Today they might just get that high from playing video games which a lot of people use to produce the same kind of high.

I feel like there should be some sort of test on a mixture of emotion and intelligence before people are allowed to comment on videos like this; some of these comments are totally disrespectful and improperly thought out. If you don't think Chris was deserving of the recognition he's received then tell us why, don't just hate on the man.

Sometimes you think you know someone because of a story, a movie, a book etc...And actually you don't know that person until you spend a large amount of time with that person. The way you think of them when though you knew them will different when you let them go after you actually spend that large amount of time with them.

I'm sorry, but I feel this video was only made to tarnish a dead man's reputation. Your old roommate that was supposedly Chris's roommate as well. If that story was true, he should have kept it to himself. Did you both feel better, and go walk on water! Sorry, but this is just morally wrong

For whatever reason, Chris wasn't happy. Apparently he was actually very shy and used drinking as a tool to help him cope. It is interesting that he would leave and go into the wild, but all the people who met him apparently liked him. Whatever the ghosts were which drove him, I think he has nothing to apologize for and should have realized that we the people who knew him and the people who have come to know him, including myself, like him and would revel in his friendship.

You can tell how much he wanted to go on that journey years before he did.

There's almost a romantic, poetic element to Chris's story. But the last guy speaking didn't play into that at all. I get the feeling they weren't close friends so to speak.

And another thing... if this director was friends with Chris’s roommate... why did he only have time to talk with him on his lunch break? Can you say “bullshit?”... and he takes a bus to go see him. “Hey I’m doing a documentary on Chris...can I talk to you?” “ I’ll give you 30 minutes on my lunch break.” Yeah that’s a real friendship.

Chris Mcandless ! Um exemplo de coragem...Thank Chris.

I can't believe that there're people come here to say such dirty words to a man passed away. You'd better find your own way to humanization before barking out loud like that.

Christopher also went to Lithonia High School here in Lithonia Georgia cuz he was telling people you know that he was going to take this trip and I'll come outside end of the school year going to summer and they was at they're discussing about Christopher talking about you don't want people to go with him on that trip to Alaska and I would listen to the guy but I didn't know who they was talkin about then they pull out of your book and they show me the picture of him and then I saw the movie and I said wow this is something else rest in peace Christopher

You people don't know what he've been through in that journey don't judge dead person he's not alive to speaks for himselfe tell you why he died

A young Christopher McCandless reminds me of a young Maynard James Keenan. Similar size, wiry build, dark hair, dark, intense eyes, and even ran cross country.

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Young people often do foolish and reckless things, most of the time they survive and it's forgotten about. If he had managed to get out alive, he would have got on with the rest of his life and we would never had heard of him. Because he died, people think there is some massive story to investigate. He was just young and did something daft, unluckily for him he didn't get away with it. That's all there is to it.

Well looks like a hit job documentary on Chris. His roommate didn’t like him, so he brings up the freshman dorm room drunk story that we all saw many of times in college... small nerdy guy drunk, for probably the first time, harmless, but annoying, and they eventually pass out... and we forget about it.

And if you read his story than obviously you know he was actually very intelligent when he was thinking straight.

Your criticizing him as if he was intending on going on a hunting trip. From what I understood from the story was that the culmination of his life to that point was something he was unhappy with, there was something that seemed drastically wrong with his life that he wanted to fix, and to do so he sought out complete solitude. Now obviously he wasn't very prepared but I don't think preparation is the first thing on some who is that stressed out's mind

I don't know about the house being stately. Looks pretty nice but then I grew up living in a home with only 2 rooms and a small bathroom. Looks pretty middle class to me.

Cool video!!!! I live in the area, and would love to go by his childhood home. I know it's in Annandale, VA, but not exactly where. Could you send me the address please? Thanks!!!!

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Fred sounds like he has a little "envy" there , so he remembers nothing good about Chris . lol

if people cant comment nice things then don't comment at all

I go further off by myself too.

How is that not a nice house?

THIS IS NOT THE HOUSE WHERE CHRIS GREW UP!!! Shame on you for saying so! Get your facts straight! I grew up five houses away from Chris, and I was a childhood friend of his.

My thoughts on it is that he should have let folks know where he was and what he was up too. Maybe that could have save his life. I know in the movie there was issues with home and parents.

What I don't understand is that there was a bridge over the river only 500 meters away...all that time he spent there he did'nt venture! weird!!

"In fact, I was once Fred's room mate too, for a summer down in Cape Cod after sophmore year." So, my parents sent me to college and then I spent my summers down on the beach........ So tell me again, how you are different from Chris?

Wow - how can you hate someone who's DEAD?????

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leave Chris alone let him rest in peace...he done nothing to you or asked.you for amything to servive....so shutt mouth

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I can't see what u mean but I dunno why people are so interested in knowing someone who died doing what he had always thought to do. I mean, why people are so curious...if Christopher hadn't died many of you would never have talked about him. What do you know about him? It seems that any of you knew him or had met him once in ur life-time. Why don't you think about you, why are you so interested in knowing someone that with many possibilities was like you...

i dont understand him.. what did he achieve by this? if there were no animals around and he was hungry and yes, he wanted to remain in the wild, then why not actually do some farming or something? or go back to the city and bring some supplies.. why do u have to die?

Chris McCandless was a troubled young man who tried to live off the land in the wilds of Alaska and starved to death. He went into the bush without bothering to master necessary skills. He didn’t have a map, wore jeans (a real sign of a newbie), and carried 10 lbs of rice but no crampons. McCandless had no respect for wilderness, too much arrogance, or maybe he just wasn’t thinking. He was not a kid or a boy; he was a 24 year old man. If Chris had a map, he would have seen that the safe way out, the best way to cross the river was only a half-mile down where there was a gauging station built by the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s how Jon Krakauer, the author of “Into the Wild,” and his companions reached the bus. Chris wanted to go into Alaska as terra incognito but there was a bus there and cabins a few miles away. How incognito could it be? In a documentary about the movie, Krackauer explained McCandless’ thinking: “If the whole world is mapped, then don’t look at the map.” That’s suicidal.

The "Supertramp" moniker somehow dosen't fit into the man here somehow...

McCandless was a human paraquat

can you werite what his friend said? I cant understand

So why waiting... lets move to alaska....

I think Chris started his journey in life not knowing, but in the end I think he found The Lord.

where can I find the full doc??

There was probably a lot of snow around to pack the moose meat in,to keep it frozen. He was so nieve and inexperienced about survivalist living. So sad really.

SHOULDN'T HAVE DRANK THE FUKKEN BONG WATER.

Don't worry dude...don't take everything for understandable :-)

im just having fun reading all this stupid commentsviments. jajaja.

If this guy had scoffed a few mushrooms along the way he wouldn't have got into the mess he did...imo

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He definitely had mental issues and what he did to his parents was horrible.

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sweet guy,but made many mistakes.

He is lying

If there had'nt been a bus in the story it would'nt have made it as a move!!

This is not the house that Chris grew up in!