Confusing

I watched a movie 'Into the wild' about a month back and 'The Namesake' few days back. Both are based on novels and had some inputs on life and they seemed to have contradicting each other, at least in my eyes they did.

In the movie 'The Namesake', when husband of an aged lady dies, she says that at last she feels free. Before that she might have been busy with loads of family things which had less to do with herself. She feels free because she is alone.

Similarly, her son, whose wife found another guy, comes back home and takes out the book he was gifted by his father. He says that he is also free. Maybe he feels that he can live on his own and doesn't need to have a wife.

Contradicting that in the movie 'Into the wild' a young man runs away from home to go to Alaska and spend 100 days. On his way he makes a few friends and gets some advices also from the good people. He makes it to Alaska and spends days all alone in the snow covered jungle, he enjoys it, he keeps on updating a diary, which eventually turned into a book.

Just as he reached the 100th day, he dies due to eating a poisonous plant. He writes "Happiness only real when shared"

Now, I am thinking if the two in the movie 'The Namesake' feel free to be alone, will they share their happiness with anyone? Will they not end up like the guy from 'Into the wild'?