Roadrunner: A film about Anthony Bourdain Movie Reaction

Since his death 3 years ago, I have not watched any of the old episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s shows, which I love so dearly. You could say that I have been grieving. I have been in denial. I have been angry. And I have been heartbroken. Many people all over the world will also say the same.

Anthony Bourdain is the inspiration for many wanderers and globe trotters. He is the great symbol of a travel -filled life lived fully and passionately. He was the rebel, former junkie who made it. His carefree style seemed to send a big F- you to all the materialism and phoniness in society today. 

The movie opened with a close-up of my hero. And his familiar, dearly missed voice haunted me. I can’t believe he is gone. He seems as present as he ever was, the way true legends live on forever. 

I didn’t leave the room with any answers to the many questions I have about his suicide. Rather, I left with a greater portrait of the man behind the scenes. I learned more about his humbleness, his kind spirit, the love for his family, and his inner journey. There are many people who say that travel brings us closer to ourselves. Maybe Anthony saw something inside himself that frightened him. It is a great lesson to us that we never know the inward struggles that people face. And it seems to be those who really can reflect in amazing ways, such as Anthony Bourdain, who can be swept away. I am not certain. As Jack Kerouac once wrote, maybe Anthony was one of the mad ones who will now “burn burn burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”