Into the Wild - Review
October 30th, 2007 Wade
Just watched Into the Wild… finally! It came within an hours drive of me so I set off, Into the Theater… (spoilers coming, so stop reading if you don’t know the story)
It really is a great rendition of the book. I felt many of the same emotions that I had when reading the story. Sean Penn did a great job directing this one and if Hal Holbrook doesn’t get best supporting actor this year then something is broken in Tinseltown people…. BROKEN! Emlie Hirsch did a great job as McCandless and I really was impressed with his performance too.
Synopsis:
If I had to sum the movie up in 3 sentences, here is what I’d say. Christopher McCandless had a rough childhood. He set out on a physical and emotional journey to find himself and to resolve his inner demons. In the end he was ill prepared and made a series of bad decisions that ended him.
That’s it. But the real story in this book/film is that he spends so much time trying to get away from meaningful relatinoships and all he can seem to do is make connections with people. It’ll make you cry if you have a heart. And you’ll be pissed off at him if you have a brain. There are a few sprinklings of nudity and an animal got field dressed. Just thought you should know it’s not for the kids or people who don’t like naked bodies or blood. What did McCandless realize at the end of his stint in the wild?…. “Happiness is only real when shared.”
My wife has a great way of simplifying these complex stories with great one liners. So I’ll quote her since she summed things up so well as we walked out of the theater.
“Wow, all that, and he could have just gone to a therapist…”
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5 Comments Add your own
1. DSD | October 30th, 2007
That’s a good one liner!
Mind you, I thought the wilds could be a kind of therapy…
DSD
2. Barry Doughnuts | October 30th, 2007
I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. It was 3 hours of my life that I want BACK! The movie took as long as it did to read the book. I’m alos not so in to how they made him this real nice guy who had such a positive effect on people.. the book painted a borderline disturbed person so hell bent on being isolated. In reality Chris should have probably had some profesional help and medication. See it for yourself,,, you be the judge. There was some great acting (even if those people never really happened) and the scenery is amazing, and it should ring the lesson DON’T GO INTO THE WOODS UNEDUCATED AND ILL-PREPARED.
3. Kraig | October 30th, 2007
They are therapy DSD, just as long as you don’t overdose on them like McCandless did.
Very good movie though, and highly recommended by me.
4. scott Simon | October 31st, 2007
i loved the book and have really wanted to see the movie
i can really identify with the guy, he just wanted to spend some time alone before he went back and worked. Plus you’ve got to feel bad for him dying out in that bus but so near to civilization. If only he had a map.
5. justin | April 9th, 2008
i beleive the movie was the most amazing thing i ever watched. it showed how chris McCandless, really wanted to live. lots of people in the world including myself hate society. its rough and difficult, their is always pressure on you from school, work, paying bills, and what ever else puts pressure on you. society and mankind in general has done some really bad things, and it these types of thing that make me and anyone else who doesnt like the pressures of society and the probems of mankind hate so much.
i have always wondered what it would be like to live in the most remote parts of the world. now i dont have any plans of running away from home, because i love my family, but i would seriously give up every posession i have to live in nature and the mountains or anywhere remote and quite. if i had a choice of living in a remote part of the mountains, with enough stuff to keep me warm, and hunting gear to catch food, or 100 million dollars a lamborgini, the biggest house with the biggest tv in the world. i would definently choose the remote life of living in isolation.
i thought this way for a long time, and not just because i seen the movie, but because of the problems that us as humans have caused, such as global warming, which i fully beeive will kill us, and war. i have lots of pressure being put on me as a teenager, and i hate cities and large groups of people. i would rather live in the farthes north settlement of people, with a population less then 300, then next door to disney land any day.
i love nature and i feel calm and at peace when ever im around it.
my grandpa lives in the canadian rockies up north in a cabin that is in a very remote area. the closest place to him is a a town of 250 people thats 2 hours away. i had the choice last winter to go there or go to disney world and i choose the obvious of going to my grandpas.
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