Into the Wild - dvd (2007)I read the book a couple of months ago and was drawn into the tale of a college boy, Chris McCandless, who after college hits the road, donates all of his money, abandons his car and lives a life without anything to hold him down. His ultimate dream is to reach Alaska and live in the wild, subsisting by eating local plants and fruit and wildlife. Taking only one bag of rice and a gun he sets out on a deserted trail, without maps, gps or any radio.
Played by Emile Hirsch, this dvd was fantastically done, and I think did the greatest job is showing how Chris affected the lives of all those he met and knew, yet he seemed to hold back his own emotions. I felt it played like a poem for the wilderness and for that part of all of us, that would all like to run away and have adventures.
To top off this visual feast, the soundtrack is performed by Eddie Vedder, whose voice fits pefectly with the rolling vistas.
Bravo, Mr Sean Penn, it was worth the ten year wait to get this movie done. You deserve a 5/5.
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