Celso Grecco sounds like a name straight out of a comic book and his money-making businessman turned philanthropist persona does too. According to “A Stock Exchange for Do-Gooders” Celso Grecco is in actuality, a do-gooder himself. While money was a former priority for Greeco, wealth was never one for Christopher McCandless; all he wanted was adventure.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
— Christopher McCandless

Into the Wild is a novel made movie that uncovers the life of Christopher McCandless a.k.a Alexander Supertramp. He was a man driven by resentment and the memories his parents had scarred him with as a child. He rebelled as a nonconformist, burning money and living a nomadic life with Alaska as his only real destination.

The story of Christopher McCandless as depicted through the vision of Sean Penn (director of Into the Wild) opened my eyes. Nature was captured in its truest form; it is dangerous, unappreciated and beautiful. The audience gets a good look at nature (the wild) across America through the adventures of Christopher McCandless. One thing that caught my eye was how Sean Penn depicted the city of Los Angeles as the “wild.” The movie did not focus on the landscape of Los Angeles, but rather the nature of the poor on the streets and the rich drinking their wine.

While parts of America could offer beautiful sunsets and lakes for Christopher McCandless to fill his journal with, Los Angeles offered him a bed he refused to take. It opened my eyes to the kind of society we are through the eyes of others; we are the wild, not the life surrounding us.

I would never want to live in a society with nothing to offer humanity; Christopher McCandless did, so he left to find a “new and different sun.”