• ccunning@lemmy.world
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      The difference between what I took away when I first read that book and the 2nd or 3rd time I watched the movie was night and day.

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        I feel bad the kid he had a privileged shit life. But going out into the middle of the Alaskan wilderness to survive with no formal training was punching way above his weight…

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        Except he dies alone at the end, so it was definitely a cautionary tale.

        This is sort of like saying Don Quixote was about a famous knight saving the world and not a crazy rich guy fighting windmills

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          Except he dies alone at the end, so it was definitely a cautionary tale.

          If the last recent years has taught us anything, it’s that how you present a thing matters a lot more than what the thing is that’s actually being presented. Unfortunately.