anahita777 It's a great movie. It's true that a backpacker trip in hostels gives you these kind of experiences but it's totally different if you avoid hostels and use couchsurfing, or just walk in a street to find a host or stay at local people's houses. I've traveled both way, stay with locals and go to hostels and believe me, it's absolutely not the same trip at all. You learn much less about the country, specially when you begin to move around with other backpacker, you become a group of tourists for the local people and you don't experience the real life and culture of the locals and they are also different to you in that way. The less you meet people who speaks the same language than you, the more you get to know the country and their people as you have to find a way to live with these people.However, the movie, was great and it is really helpful for the people who like to travel to understand that it's not one year holidays... There is almost no comfort but it worth the freedom :)I gave 8 just because it would be much better to be more with local people than with other travelers in hostels ;)

smurphy01 This is a vaguely sweet little film does make me want to travel again. It offers precisely no insight about anything, but if you take it as a travelogue, you'll be happy with what you get.Although the film visits exotic locales in Asia, Europe, Australia and South America, the undisputed star is the American film-maker. I guess I'm jealous of what I perceive as a uniquely American luxury of assuming everything you utter is profound; that not only should you record your thoughts, but they're worthy of a full-length film. It's not Asia or Europe that are interesting, but what this young American thinks about his experience visiting them.Watching this, I was reminded (and, yes, the irony of writing about my own experiences isn't lost on me) of going to a concert by an 80's songstress in 2003 in Hicksville – yes, Hicksville – outside New York. I'm from Tasmania, Australia, and at the time I was living in Manchester, UK, travelling with a British girlfriend. We met a lovely group of American chaps at the concert and not one of them asked what we were doing in Hicksville watching a Cyndi Lauper concert in 2003. When they heard where we were from, one launched into a story about Sydney and another about London. My friend and I laughed about it at the time, commenting on the fact that they had no interest in us or our countries, just in their own experiences in relation to us. And that's what this whole film is like.I do recommend watching it if you're young and about to go travelling, or thinking about it. I suspect it's already out of date with social media affording kids of all nationalities and incomes the ability to create travelogues, but if you don't know anyone who's backpacking with a blog, this does show what it's like. In fact, the entire film is just a Facebook update that a rich bloke managed to make into a motion picture.

xfiler7 Whiny, spoiled boy quits his TV job and dumps his Manhattan apartment to take a year long vacation from his tough life. In this useless travelogue, he focuses on socializing with fellow backpackers and does not talk much about the places or sights. Once in a while, he complains about Indian trains, altitude sickness, and getting mugged. Hey, there's a way to avoid this- it's called research! Also he low-balls the cost of his trip ($20k USD)- bullshit on that, especially when you're buying your many plane tickets last minute in the terminal. So sorry you're lonely on your trek, but maybe if you had concentrated more on where you are and what real locals are doing, and not just f**king Euro girls in hostels, you'd have had a better time.

bearian This documentary is about a young man, originally from Rhode Island, but at the start of a successful career in New York, working as a producer for HBO. Wondering aloud whether he can settle down with a wife, kids, and a mortgage, he decides to give it all up for an around-the-world adventure. His friends are suspicious of his trip.Brook Silva-Braga takes off for 50 weeks as a backpacker to visit 26 countries. He stays almost exclusively in hostels. Along the way, he meets fellow backpackers from around the world, romances young women, and discovers a new world of hostels. Packing a mere 5 pounds of clothes but 30 pounds of video equipment, he traverses from the US, to Australia, southeast Asia, India and Nepal, Europe, Brazil, and Argentina.In the film, Braga-Silva discovers a hidden world of budget travel, friendly "Canadians" who were born south of Toronto, and romance in strange places. He is guided through Nepal and mugged in Brazil. At the end, he finds friends and a new way of living.This is a wonderful film. It was featured in several film festivals and on MTV. Braga-Silva will be the keynote speaker at the Hostelling International - USA 's national convention in November 2007.