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Into the Wild (2007)
ignorance has its own rewards
His parents pay for his education and by of thanks he heads for the territories. His first act of independence is to park his car in a cutbank in the desert, an excellent method for taking a late night muddy swim. He then wanders the land in search of truth and justice, eventually hooking up with some latter day hippies who are a little wiser but not much smarter. He calls himself a tramp but since he burned his money he's really a bum mooching his way across America . Wouldn't you just love to find this guy hanging around your favorite summer retreat mooning away for walden pond. A great beginning for a summer vacation. He and his naivete eventually arrive in the frozen wilderness of Alaska where he thinks poetry and wishful thinking will provide sustenance. This pilgrim should have stayed with his mommy.
Powder (1995)
This movie has claustrophobia.
In 1995 Sean Patrick Flanery was 30 years old; too old for the part. A albino adolescent genius who would make Einstein and Hawking look like preschoolers is treated like a parolee. What kind of school counselor would send such a person on a camping trip with teenage hoodlums under the supervision of a gun-fetish, stump-jumping deputy. Telepathy and telekinesis take a back seat to the antics of redneck cops. Anyone, anywhere with this kind of power would have come to the attention of someone vastly more important than a "grey flannel suit" department of education bureaucrat. In the real world Powder would be kept at Area 51.