What a strong movie and story – its impossible to forget. The film is perfect.
I think I understand Alexander.
A few years back I trekked and hitchhiked in Iceland feeling really like a homeless bum, I felt how some people looked at me, after 200km of walking, but it took me only two weeks of that to really be done with “freedom” and just want to get back home to the family.
Its a funny thing though to be really dependent only on oneself, but simultaneously also on the kindness of strangers.
On several occasions I lost my way in the rainy Icelandic landscape and on one day ended up walking up a wrong mountain. As I was scrambling to find the way down some unknown gorge a heavy and cold rain set in, so as I finally managed to come down having broken one of my walking poles I put up a tent and spent 3 days in some huge valley, full of water, rivers and mist until the rain was gone. I lied on my back in satisfaction, looking at the grey tent heavy with moisture, now and them wobbling under the wind and letting drops fall down, my spriritus heater on slow burn warming up the air inside real comfortably. I wrapped myself in all the clothes I had, put the sleeping bag over and mostly slept, rested and did nothing until ultimately the sky dried up and I decided it was a time to go. It took me another day to walk to the ring road, and a bus next day early morning brought me back to Rejkjavik.
I’ve had enough of adventures for that time.
And this guy did it for .. 2 years. He must have had a lot to let go.
How true.
If only he could have crossed that river…
..or had a map..
