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I left Colorado’s light several days ago to work in hazy Los Angeles. The drive out is always a reminder of what I am leaving, as the intimidatingly mammoth 14ers (like Gray’s Peak) loom over I-70 — almost intrepid me to leave — slowly disintegrate into staggered planes and red rock plateaus, in turn losing their scorched colors and fading into a clay-type desert. It is here I feel really alone.
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In the motel during my night-over in Utah, I watched Alone in the Wilderness. I had missed the first few minutes, but wasn’t paying attention remarkable. What caught my inspect accurate off the bat was the color. Films don’t inspect like this today, they are all cartoony, over-saturated digital oilslicks. Wilderness was grainy, worn, low-contrast, and quite much to leer, until I realized what was going on, really noticed what the film was about.
Here was a man, who left his job to live secluded from the (technological) world. He built a cabin without disturbing the trees directly around his region. He eventually added a pretty chimney, made of stones quiet throughout various hikes at varying altitudes. He built snowshoes and a dog-sled (despite the lack of dogs), and a backpack that could carry anything (slab of wood for a table top, or nearly an entire caribou) . At one point, he needs a wooden spoon, so — where today we would hop in the car, drive through traffic to a store and buy one — he carves a unbelievable spoon out of wood, polished and perfected and filmed in less than an hour.
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I couldn’t abet but wonder if this film was a godsend; am I doing the true thing exciting away from the mountains, where I am constantly outdoors in the sunshine? In California, I expend my days indoors, looking out into traffic, and usually I’m too busy to care. In the evenings, I have headaches, and easily become grumpy.
What is it we want in life? Alone in the Wilderness does not preach “leave the complex, live for simplicity.” The film doesn’t preach at all, in fact. The viewer simply watches this man’s life, which is a far scream from “simple,” by the way; it is constant work to halt warm and well-fed. The dangers of the surrounding wildlife isn’t far from Mr. Proenneke’s walls of comfort. In one hilarious moment, though, Mr. Proenneke turns the camera onto a wolverine that had been avoiding him, only to catch it rolling (literally sprawled out, rolling!) down a broad snowy hillside, enjoying the powdery snow and the brilliant sunshine.
At my young age, I must do what I feel is just for me. But that doesn’t mean I can’t assign this disc in the player and vicariously live through a man far more courageous and elated than I could ever be.
I bought the DVD because when I saw this on PBS I was simply mesmerized by it’s simple and serene beauty. Right, the skills Dick had and the device he built tools and his cabin was very frigid, but I concept the greatest share of the film was his appreciate for nature. Even though he had to shoot and eat a Ram, he aloof felt poor for the ragged guy. The diminutive clip of the wolverine rolling down the snowy hill was unreal. I worship wolverines!!! The only portion I did not like was the ending narration by the woman, who said something to the accomplish that his spirit will live on in the perfect notches of his logs. Inappropriate! It lives on in that shapely Alaskan boreal wilderness called Twin Lakes…the moss, the shapely trees, the blueberry bushes, all the mountains and lakes, and the animals.
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