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...line between heroic martyrdom and psychopathic self-destructiveness is ever a thin and shifting one, and Sean Penn, the writer and director of Into the Wild, has obviously poured his generous heart and sympathetic soul into his adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of young man named Chistopher McCandless, who chose (to his sorrow and our discomfort) to walk that line...
...records this opinion with a certain amount of dismay. I happen to think Sean Penn is one of our more admirable knotheads - a fearless actor, a bold controversialist and, as he proved with The Pledge, a very strong director, capable of far subtler moral complexity than Into the Wild affords. I think the central mistake of this film derives from its lack of irony, a sense it refuses to impart that the world may not be exactly as the zealous Christopher perceives it to be. The film needs at least to entertain the possibility that its protagonist was driven less...
There are more than a couple 0-1’s on the docket this week attached to teams that entered the year with legitimate title aspirations. Penn, Princeton, and Harvard all started 2007 with losses last Saturday. Yet here’s the beauty—or ludicrousness, depending on how you look at it—of the Ivy League: non-conference play is purely for pride. There will be no playoffs, no Week 11, no matter what. Strength of schedule, quality losses, margin of victory—they’re all extraneous concepts. It?...
Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a have-it-all kid who, upon graduating from college, resolved to flee his family for the Alaskan wilderness. Is Christopher a truth seeker, a defiant brat or some unknowable other? Director Sean Penn, adapting the Jon Krakauer bio-book, makes no judgments. He slowly spins this into a parable of one man's need for revelation, isolation and chilly transcendence...
...that close to the end of the game.”One especially bright spot for the Crimson was the play of sophomore libero Katherine Koucerek, who was named the tournament’s Best Digger.The tournament was ultimately won by host American, which defeated the Penn, 3-2, in the final.NAVY 3, HARVARD 0The Crimson lost its final match of the tournament to the Midshipmen in straight games, losing 30-21, 30-23, 30-23.The Saturday night match was the team’s fourth in two days, and in an effort to combat fatigue, coach Jennifer Weiss chose...