[setr]

I mean, both ideas exist in the movie; the idea itself was naive idealism and the lack of preparation gets him killed.. but what little time he had there was great.

The lesson: its a good idea, but don’t run in unprepared, and don’t think nature is without danger

The apparent takenaway: it’s a good idea

[cal5k]

It takes a long time to die of starvation. That can't have been a pleasant 4 months by any stretch of the imagination.

[setr]

As I remember the film, it was death by poison mushroom, risked due to starvation — I feel like it was a death depicted over maybe two weeks. I remember the overall stay being quite bearable.. until the winter hit, and everything went wrong; and death came swiftly and without mercy

But regardless the movie depicts it as a fairly slow, very painful, and a fairly pathetic death (alone, weak, with lots of regret and little to show for it), but still 90% of the movie was him running around in gorgeous nature shots and small towns.

[_underfl0w_]

Actually, I believe (at least in the movie) it came from eating a type of poisonous berry that he naively mistook for a very similar-looking nonpoisonous berry.