Hiker dies en route to ‘Into The Wild’ bus…

yeah, the sean penn movie was really difficult to watch. that whole part about him running that whitewater canyon in his ducky . . .all bullshit. he did float lower flatwater sections of the Colorado, but i just kept thinking .. . why does he (penn) have to put this in there to try and glamorize the story?

compare it with wim winders documentary to timothy treadwell (grizzly man). i felt like that ‘honored’ timothy’s story while putting it into a greater context all in a transparent way vis a vis the director’s feelings toward the subject. penn made a caricature.

still, kind of strange to be talking about movies when these kids just died.