INTO THE WILD

After graduating from Emory University, 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. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.Based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn.This Life story first written in a book"Into The Wild"by Jon Krakauer.Those who read the book says that Sean Penn stayed close to the book and scenes were shot in fact the real places that took part in Christopher McCandless life.Estranged from his family and friends trying to run away from that ordinariness and boredom.McCandless heads to Alaskan wilderness along the way he meets wonderful people including a beatiful girl who likes him but stiil carries on to Alaskan wilderness and there he finds an abondoned bus and makes it his home.It is difficult not to sympathize with the character for his choice as many of us at least think about running away and live at least for a while in a peaceful place but on the other hand it is also difficult not to call his decisions a stupidity when he left these people he met along the journey also whom he got on well.But he chose to be alone or live alone forever which also became his dead as he eats the poisonous plant and dies from starvation.Surely if someone was with him he would be alive but that wouldn't match his ambitions.The film had not been kept long so doesnt bore the audience and in many scenes ,like a documentary shot,enables the audience as if they are discovering the wild life along with McCandless.The story might be a lesson for many who chooses to be alone or to live alone because dying alone in your most vulnerable moment is terrible.

"This is a reflective, regretful, serious film about a young man swept away by his uncompromising choices. Two of the more truthful statements in recent culture are that we need a little help from our friends, and that sometimes we must depend on the kindness of strangers. If you don't know those two things and accept them, you will end up eventually in a bus of one kind or another"

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times