After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Emile Hirsch Marcia Gay Harden William Hurt Jena Malone Brian H. Dierker Catherine Keener Vince Vaughn Kristen Stewart Hal Holbrook Thure Lindhardt Signe Egholm Olsen Jim Gallien James J. O'Neill Malinda McCollum Paul Knauls Zach Galifianakis Craig Mutsch Jim Beidler John Decker John Hofer Jerry Hofer Terry Waldner Robin Mathews Candice Campos Steven Wiig Floyd Wall Bryce Walters Jim Davis Cheryl Francis Harrington Show All…
In die Wildnis - Allein nach Alaska, Na Natureza Selvagem, В диких условиях, Hacia rutas salvajes, Wszystko za życie, Camino salvaje, 荒野伴我心, Útek do divociny, Ταξίδι στην άγρια φύση, Erämaan armoille, Ind i vildmarken, Vers l'inconnu, Özgürlük Yolu, Into the Wild - Die Geschichte eines Aussteigers, Сред дивата природа, イントゥ・ザ・ワイルド, עד קצה העולם
I cannot possibly BEGIN to describe my feelings towards this story, or perhaps the whole concept of what McCandless did. After watching the movie, I could not think of anything but a strange longing to do what he did, and it just kept going. I still feel that way, even now, as I think of it. Later, I read the book twice, and did a lot of research about McCandless, and I became more and more inspired. This is not just a movie - it is a wonder of creation. I have so much more to say, but I'll just stop here - watch the movie even if you are not inspired by what McCandless did - it is a beautiful movie in many ways.
My God. The concept, the look at life, the songs, the lines in the songs,the soothing music , the dialogues, the edifying quotes, the characters and the picturesque nature shown in this film make it more than a film. It makes this, the ULTIMATE PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIENCE. Everything is so beautiful and when Emile Hirsch sheds tears in the last scene, you cannot control breaking down.
Into the Wild is a wondrous and breathtaking journey, taking the viewer on a spiritual quest that feels just as life-affirming and joyous as any film that I have seen. Emile Hirsch just kills it in the lead role, cementing my opinion that he's one of the most underrated actors working today.
I don't have much more to say about it. Into the Wild is a personal experience, one that will work much better when viewed alone.
Into the Wild makes almost a perfect pairing with Twilight as it is about everything "wrong" with young man perspective looked at completely uncritically and completely celebrated for it by the general public. This is a movie at which someone literally burns money, and we're supposed to be like "yeah! take that capitalism!" as if that money couldn't have helped someone who had less of a safety net than Chris McCandles. It's another film (like On the Road) that romanticizes the freedom of poverty while ignoring that that freedom McCandles experiences is almost entirely derived from his enormous privilege.
I'm not sure I can say anything worse about this film than it made me sympathetic to McCandles' awful suburban parents. What kind of person does this to their parents (barring situations of abuse)?
Honestly, watch Wendy and Lucy instead. This is probably the worst film I've watched this year.
Dirk van Eck is a geography student who does not like, probably hates, to travel. But he loves Into the Wild! With an abstract that has ‘doomed to fail’ written all over it, the movie, and its leading actor Emile Hirsch, the movie surprises beyond imagination by actually emotionally engaging its viewer. Two and a half hours long, and thus deliberately aiming to ‘be’ epic, Into the Wild leads one through a series of bittersweet, nervous, whimsical, curious, risky, banal and passionate moments between different people, sometimes mere strangers, or just between the protagonist and his surroundings. It is a film that feels much more genuine than any comparable alternative, mainly because of director Sean Penn’s - who truly outdoes…
A poignant true life story of a young man trying to find his true self! The journey is beautiful but like life it is filled with obstacles, challenges and tragedy!
I can't think of a time I haven't wanted to leave society behind, ditch the grid and fly under the radar as I traipse through the woods or beaches barefoot feeling the sand between my toes!
Then I realized I'd have to hunt prey, kill it, clean it, cook it and on top of that I'd have to fetch and haul wood, start a fire, haul water from a lake or river, boil it before I could drink it! Just thinking about that wears me out! Thank god for frozen…
"Where the fuck is Kristen Stewart?" - Me, for most of the movie.
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People need more nature in their life I suppose... not this much though.
Generally speaking, I don't like watching privileged children slum it in order to find themselves... especially when they are obsessed with poetry and stuff. It's a flaw I have... I don't like watching young people recover from their flaws or histories during their early adulthood... I don't know why but it annoys me in movies. Maybe it's because I never feel like I dealt with mine or maybe I'm just too old and bitter to care or maybe…
Okay, I cannot for the life of me work out why anyone recommended this. (I've just tried and failed to work out where I saw this being recommended, so perhaps that was my imagination.) Okay, so there's good news and bad news and we're starting with the good news. So, what was good about this movie? The acting was really good from pretty much everyone (asides from Kristen Stewart - more on that later). The cinematography by Eric Gautier was fantastic. Gautier also did cinematography for "The Motorcycle Diaries". So anyway, that's all the good features sorted. Let's move on...
Okay that was a bit harsh, but this was a distressingly irritating movie and I shall explain why....
Let's start…
To give up everything, family, friends, possessions, money, structure, safety, is extremely brave. It may also be rife with hubris. Sean Penn's "Into the Wild," based on Jon Krakauer's retelling of the life and adventures of Christopher McCandless, examines those dual ideas, casting McCandless as an American wanderer as courageous as he is foolhardy.
In nonlinear bursts of storytelling, Penn's film follows McCandless from his college graduation to his exploration of personal and geographic frontiers. Turning his back on what is expected of him, McCandless moves west with little more than the clothes in his backpack. Eventually finding himself in Alaska, McCAndless finds the absolute freedom for which he searched and comes to the realization of that freedom's cost.
Penn…
yeah the movie was rly long, but you know what, i didn’t lose interest once, it was such a beautiful movie and kinda inspirational aswell, that you have to life live to the fullest or else you’re going to regret it.
En sevdiğim ve en çok izlediğim film.Tamamen beni anlatıyor diyebilirim.İçim daraldığında ve hayatı yoğun bir şekilde sorguladığım zamanlarda kendimi into the wild izlerken bulurum.
Çok önemli diğer olay da filmin müizklerini Eddie Vedder ın yapması.Bazen sadece müziği için bile açarım
i really didn’t get it. this movie was excruciatingly long for what was shown on screen. the monologues were cool but about half of this movie was montages of the worst scenic shots possible. i wasn’t sold. there were some great scenes, but it seemed so pretentious and self-absorbed (which may have been the point). i just found it uninteresting except for when other characters were present.
Such a great movie it was the first movie that made me cry back in 2013 when I watched it I forgot it existed till I watched it A few mounth ago and it’s so good.
The pleasure of leaving everything behind (As a white, privileged, western man who can have the chance to choose! )
What an amazing film, and a even more amazing true story. So fascinating. It takes a good commentary on how difficult it can be to live in society’s constructs, and how some people like Chris simply reject the lifestyle forced upon people by the world. Some people just want a simpler life, and to Chris that simpler life was in isolation from his responsibilities and in the Wild. The story was really touching and Chris was clearly quite a wise man (Even if he wasn’t the best survivalist).
I’d like to go to the Alaskan museum one day and view the magic bus in person, might add that to my bucket list.
watched this for my environmental history class lol :)
i definitely thought chris was obnoxious and a privileged asshole at first for romanticizing that kind of lifestyle (which is what a lot of people criticize this film for) but i feel like that was kind of the point of telling his story... he made a lot of bad decisions and got lost in his unrealistic fantasy, but in general his philosophy was on the right track. also you have to look at his family life and how that could lead someone to do what he did. (i haven’t read the book though so i’m not sure how much of it was accurate to his real life)
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