My name is Mark, and I’ve been an English teacher for over ten years. I suppose my vision for this channel is very similar to my vision as a teacher. In my videos, I hope to inspire others by shining a light on truth and beauty in works that have inspired me!
I chose the name for this channel for more reasons than the idea of "moonlighting." Just as the moon reflects a brighter light and an unseen world, I think that art and stories have the capacity to reflect deep truths and fill our lives with light and beauty. I reflect further on this in a poem on my blog: moonlightingenglishteacher.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/moonlight-original-poem/
If you'd like to connect, you are welcome to email me at moonlightingteacher@gmail.com
What's the background music in the beginning? sounds exactly like The Grey soundtrack, which is one of my favourite movie ost of all time. once more into the fray...
There is a big chunk that remained untold about C. McCandless. His sister wrote a book, "The Wild Truth', where she talks about the abuse she and his sister suffered. He wasn't on some existential journey. He was running away from his pain. There is one part in "The Wild Truth", where one of C McCandless's road friends erupts in a violent drunken rage, mirroring the violence of his father. That moment highlights the tragedy of that pain we as men hide from
Шикарный фильм! После просмотра он не отпускает. Правда, тюрма, пытки и лишения показаны как то очень мягко, в тёплых солнечных тонах. Слишком красивые места заключения. По нашим меркам - курорт 😂. Но все остальное, это сосхождение на Голгофу
The Secret of kells was released in 2009 helping us see and recognize a bygone era of the older world. Meanwhile, the Wolfwalkers being finally released in 2021 was a new era that reveals a different doctrine. The main protagonist (supposedly a male) was introduced as a female and reveals the radical side of the "protectors of the Christian faith" and a distopian world shaped out of the former. Overall; both films were spectacular at showing the two faces of the Irish folk culture.
It's funny how much this works with Christian symbolism, but against the Bible and the doctrines promoted according to it. Not sure how best to explain it within the scope of a RU-vid comment, but if you apply this analysis of control and love/freedom to God, you find early God as a highly manipulative, controlling monster. Later/modern God rarely, if ever, intervenes and is described as far more loving, with the problem of evil/suffering often being explained or justified by an appeal to human free will. But God according to Christianity is commonly accepted to be eternal, constant, and maximally good, powerful, and knowing. Any past "evil" like the flood is thus good because God did it because God cannot be anything but good. God punishing Adam and Eve for disobeying him before they knew of good and evil, and thus before they had the knowledge that it was bad to disobey God, would then be the most evil thing he could have done; literally damning two innocents and their descendants eternally. Even with Jesus's sacrifice, God is only sacrificing himself to himself to allow himself to forgive humanity for a wrong they naively committed like a toddler who ate too many cookies. In this lens, then, the greatest, most loving and freeing thing God could do isn't sacrificing Jesus as one aspect of the trinity, but to sacrifice himself wholly and totally. To cease demanding worship and subservience, to destroy the concept of sin and leave morality to humanity to decide for themselves. No more worship, no more sin, no more churches or masses or sermons. No gods, no kings, no masters. For humans, destroying God and all reverence or respect for Him might be equivalent to the evil/control shown by God in Genesis. But this control would be an exercise in freedom against God who, by His nature, could only be destroyed by His will. Man's actions against God would not be the eternal damnation of an innocent child, but a revolution against a tyrant. TLDR - Your video implies that the most Christian and loving act a human could take is apostasy and anti-theism which is decidedly un-Christian.
A broken family and, on top of that, no realisation from his parents led a young man to look for happiness outside. Eventually, he found happiness in the form of nature but wasn't prepared to keep it long. On his way, he did find good connections, but maybe he needed more time to be ready to have them as he couldn't have a genuine connection with his family, especially his parents. He didn't plan to die. He wanted to live but needed to take proper precautions, which he didn't. And it ultimately led to his demise. However, people claim he wasn't sad about dying, but I believe he must have felt sad, yet he was content because he did what he wanted to do, and that's where that last not come when he wished everyone well. He said, "Happiness is only real when shared." Through this quote, I realise that he finally realised the human connection we need to live in this world at the end of his life. A genuine connection, actually. My only complaint from Chris would be his respect for his sister, as he never had a good connection with his parents, but his sister didn't deserve those years when she was waiting for him. We can learn from his life, and I wish everyone reading the comments would learn from his life.
Good analysis. My opinion is that mccandles writings are platitudes of a spoilt brat. Thumbed his nose at society and wound up dead. Make your own life and estrange your abusive parents whatever. Go out into the wilderness and burn your money? Get a grip.
Escapism vs community is a false dichotomy and misunderstanding of what Chris’ intention was. He wasn’t escaping but rather running towards an explicit goal. He also had already planned to leave Alaska by the fall. He was a smart kid that almost made it out, and intentionally didn’t take a map to increase the challenge.
His parents were low life. Intellectuals that made life a living hell for him. What he did was impart because of the toxic c***** family life. That is the life of atheist intellectuals that don't know how to love. He grew up in a c*** house and we all know it. At a young age, I rejected all the stupid nonsense. And focus on simplicity gratitude. I took my old. I took a very old, very beautiful house and rebuilt it myself. And I've made a wonderful life. My mother and father were full on narcissist. My father did not show me love. My mother alcoholic hoarding very promiscuous. Woman, it did not have an impact on me for the most part. Because I opened my Bible and I kept my Bible open and I found God. I found Jesus and life has been wonderful right now. Every area of my life is wonderful. And I think my father Jehovah, Yahweh. And his son Jesus Christ. I do not trust intellectuals. I don't follow them most scientists. I don't trust them. Most scientists and intellectuals want you to believe the lie of evolution that we came from a little old soup stoop. I reject all of that I was created in God's image. Life is wonderful. The Kingdom of God is going to clean house when Jesus comes and he will be here soon because Jesus was resurrected and he will be here soon. He's going to get rid of all evil and only good people are gonna live on earth for a
I must say honestly I totally missed all the visual symbolism and the implied ideas of the voice overs. I'm simply not used to Terrence Malick's higher artistic cinematic language. Thank you for decoding the movie! I'll have a much higher appreciation of it now.
The catholic church has no right to claim Franz as one of their own heroes. They as an institution did not stand up to Hitler. Franz stood up against the nazis as an individual believer in Christ. He and God together get the credit alone. Catholic church sit down and be quiet.
Thank you for that imbecilic comment. We now know to avoid any future comments from you. Feel free to rejoin the conversation when you grow up and educate yourself.
Corrupt shallow society vs found family or the family we choose. This is within all of us. People spend their lives earning money and collecting things to fit in or be admired, but really we all have a drive to belong. Even if it feels like we belong outside, it's simply asking to be found and to be seen.
Years after Twain published "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," it seems Twain may have had second thoughts on the ultimate outcome of heading out to the Territory. He wrote in his notebook: "Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where-& crazy. Thinks he is a boy, & (seeks) scans always every face for Tom & Becky &c.”
Chris McCandless was a fool. Romantic notions of him as some kind of hero is like trying to convince people that a pile of dog shit is a bowl of chocolate pudding. Whoever discovered his body in that bus found a horrific pile of rotting flesh, not some young heroic who gently passed into the arms of Nature.
In one place of the movie, it says that happiness is in helping others, but this fool could not even help his parents, and in the end, with the dream of reaching the truth of life, he died like a stray dog . I just regret why I wasted my time watching this crap movie
I cannot wait to see this film. This reminds me of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand. Stories about real people teach us to ask ourselves, "What would I do in this situation?" We are all facing hard times and difficult decisions ahead. For me, I have thought long and hard about what I would do. It makes a difference knowing ahead of time what choices we will make.
From the 1870s until the end of ll World War, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world, so he was shocked when he saw a world behind the Andes mountain😢
Loved this video. I think my best teachers are the ones that know how to make school work fun. I'll always remember Mrs. Cooper my science teacher. We got to watch movies with science in it. We did fun projects. Oh and had a fantastic English teacher.
Beautiful. This resonates so much with Gabor Mate's the myth of normal: how could a traumatized Chris not need to escape the toxicity of his former life? He sought it in books of great authors who embodied authenticity at any cost (Tolstoy, London, Pasternak), and in the wild that they admired. But the denial of community may the deepest wound, the true reason for his escape. It is truly sad he did not make it back to live what Tolstoy called family happiness. Yet his story, his words remain as a powerful message to us all, that it resonates with so many shows how much we all need community and communion with nature to heal our wounds.
All I can say is that we're rapidly approaching a time in which any given person will be faced with same fundamental choice that he was. Unless you're willing to die for the Gospel, you're not a true disciple. I just hope that I will be before the end.
