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Society, man! You know, society! Cause, you know what I don't understand? I don't understand why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often. It doesn't make sense to me. Judgment. Control. All that, the whole spectrum. Well, it just...

you can add all that you hate after "just"
 For all those who don't know this is from into the wild. This scene precedes the text above and to me its one of those hair raising scenes that speaks to you, and you don't see actors acting but people speaking and you listening. The pain and the angst displayed is something surreal. They howl like they mean every word they are saying and they want nothing to do with society, they have been hurt gravely and there is this compassion you feel because deep down you feel the same at times, that society, the conventions, the norms, the rules are all that's left to determine what you are, what you have been and what you will be? You are just a cogwheel in the bigger machinery and you are there because you need to be, you have to perform your function and be rendered obsolete after that. But ,on the other hand aren't we all looking for other people's acceptance, you tweet, tweet something catchy to have a large following,same with Facebook. The whole idea of man being a social animal. It's too deep a maze to follow like everything there are shades of grey rather than just black or white. But Conformity, pleasing people sometimes gets better of people, flattery becomes a language of its own, and you function that way, please so and so coz they may help you out in the future. It feels so right at the time but seldom do we realize how hand to mouth our relationships become. It's cause and effect , you can't say no to a friend because he/she did you a favor and now you repay, you have to go to a marriage because someone else also came to yours. It's a vicious circle, a circle from which if you get out you are a loner, a recluse.

The movie itself has so much to it on the subject,whether one can be an apostate and leave all the shit behind live and die on his/her own in the environment of his liking ? Or do you turn against the society and bear the brunt of your fool hardiness, defying the age old scheme of things and screwing up. That's upon the people to decide.But the romanticism about living on your own is hard to ignore.