Title: Dishonest Interpretation of the Book
Review: Director Penn takes the banal story of a pampered narcissist who goes into the Alaskan wilderness to find TRUTH only to die alone from starvation and tries to turn it into some kind of Homeric epic of self-discovery. Penn tries to tie the hero's angst to his parents who in the book aren't disparaged in any way. Sure, they have problems, but the boy's 5 siblings seem to be just fine. Only he turns on them and sets out to deliberately bring them pain they don't deserve.The book is ok for high school kids. It's well-written by an author who himself went through a period of alienation as a young man. The difference is he lived to tell the tale.Ironically, the parents the hero so despises go on to establish a Foundation in his memory. They're doing just fine. Also, the hero took on his journey a sleeping bag his mother had made by hand, slept in it every night and in the end it becomes his shroud. What would Freud say about THAT?
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