In some ways Vagabond reminded me of Into the Wild: Chris McCandless seems to have had more social skills than Mona on a micro level, but there's the same inability/unwillingness to bend to other people's rules in order to live in society. He had a particular vision of the freedom he wanted, and like Mona he ended up dying for it, because it's a narrow/unsustainable kind of freedom.
And of course for Mona there's the added difficulty that some men see an unprotected girl on the road as an easy mark for sex. McCandless might have run into the same thing, but almost certainly not to the same extent.
And it really depends how you look at it how much freedom Mona has really achieved, in the end. On the one hand, she's no longer working for anyone - no one can order her around - and that's not nothing. But on the other hand, she's sort of being ordered around by circumstance, if that makes sense. Her boss can't force her to work, but her stomach can. But maybe to her that's worth it.
The movie doesn't give us enough backstory for me to know this for sure, but my feeling is that Mona's not missing the ability to consider what other people want; she's just decided she's sick of doing it. She gets along with people all right when she wants to get along, it's just that wants that much less often than most of the rest of us do.
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Date: 2018-09-01 04:11 pm (UTC)And of course for Mona there's the added difficulty that some men see an unprotected girl on the road as an easy mark for sex. McCandless might have run into the same thing, but almost certainly not to the same extent.
And it really depends how you look at it how much freedom Mona has really achieved, in the end. On the one hand, she's no longer working for anyone - no one can order her around - and that's not nothing. But on the other hand, she's sort of being ordered around by circumstance, if that makes sense. Her boss can't force her to work, but her stomach can. But maybe to her that's worth it.
The movie doesn't give us enough backstory for me to know this for sure, but my feeling is that Mona's not missing the ability to consider what other people want; she's just decided she's sick of doing it. She gets along with people all right when she wants to get along, it's just that wants that much less often than most of the rest of us do.