
Many of you are watching the movie, "into the wild" in Ian's English Writing class. I also showed this movie in my grade 10 english class. In Canada the idea of wilderness is very different than China. Mainly because China has so many more people. In Canada there are large areas where nobody lives. In the past first Nations people (indians, natives) lived throughout Canada even in forests and mountains that are now empty.
What do you think when you hear this word "wild"? Do you think of emptiness?
In my favorite Japanese Movie, Princess Mononoke the forest is ruled by a beautiful and magical spirit who takes the form of a stag. In the movie, "Into the Wild" the main character tragically kills a similar animal, a moose. In both movies, the animals present something sublime, magical, wild about nature that humans in their infinite desire to thrive and survive, destroy.
A lot of my favorite art deals with the relationship between the natural and human world, especially when it blurs this boundary. Since I do not believe that we can separate ourselves wholly from this world, we evolved within it and will die without it. When we separate ourselves from nature, labeling true nature as "wild" or "empty"
we create a relationship that allows people to divorce their own existence from that which gives them life.












































