Into the Wild
by Sean Penn
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Actor: Brian Dierker, Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, William HurtDirector: Sean Penn
Brand: INTO THE WILD - WIDESCREEN (DVD MOVIE)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Danish (Original Language); English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 148 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Into the Wild
Movie Review: I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD
Summary: 5 Stars
"Wise Men in Their Bad Hours":
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made
Something more equal to centuries
Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
The mountains are dead stone, the people
Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
The mountains are not softened or troubled
And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper
"I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!" Found written in Alexander Supertramp's Notebook.
Sean Penn has directed a magnificent film. Every image tells a story- the sea, the cities, the wheat fields, the rivers, the glorious mountains, the trains, and the young man himself who experiences these vistas. Christoper or Alexander Supertramp as he calls himself is seemingly running toward something. Sure he is running from his abusive family, but it seems to me he is searching for the purity of life, and he found it. Peter Travers of 'Rolling Stone' says "If, like Penn, you mourn Chris's tragedy and his judgment errors but also exult in his journey and its spirit of moral inquiry, then this beautiful, wrenching film will take a piece out of you. " And, this film will remain with me for a long long time.
The people that Supertramp meets along the way, are part of him and his story. They all bring a little piece of knowledge and love into his life. And every person he meets falls in love with him. He leaves them while he can. This is a physical film, lots of hard work and labor just to survive. An odyssey to a deliverance. Emile Hirsch, as Christopher McCandless is extraordinary. A young man who portrays a physical and emotional loneliness. Hal Holbrook as a retired military man gives the performance of his life- the tears he sheds as Christopher walks away are the tears we all shed.
Christopher loved literature and he was influenced by Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London. Their philosophies are written throughout his notebook. He is always reading throughout this film, and at one point he cannot carry the books any longer and buries them encased in plastic beneath a highway overpass.
Eddie Vedder's voice is portrayed in song throughout the movie and it seems at times as Peter Travers states" Eddie Vedder's remarkable songs, notably a cover of "Hard Sun," sound like the voice of Chris' unconscious." Chris and a young hippie woman he meets sing 'Angel of Montgomery' which may be one of the most poignant memories and sounds of the film.
'Make me an angel
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin
Is just a hard way to go'
Christopher finds his way to Alaska and after four months he slowly dies of starvation. We are with him, in his bus and we experience the glories that he feels and the visions he sees. Through our tears we celebrate with him.
"Which is not to say that there is anything easy or naive in what Mr. Penn has done. "Into the Wild" is, on the contrary, alive to the mysteries and difficulties of experience in a way that very few recent American movies have been. There are some awkward moments and infelicitous touches -- a few too many Eddie Vedder songs on the soundtrack, for -- but the film's imperfection, like its grandeur, arises from a passionate, generous impulse that is as hard to resist as the call of the open road." A.O. Scott
Highly, Highly Recommended. prisrob 04-08-08
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Summary of Into the Wild
This is the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch). Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people -- a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature.System Requirements:Running Time: 148 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/COMING OF AGE Rating: R UPC: 097363481249 Manufacturer No: 348124A superb cast and an even-handed treatment of a true story buoy Into the Wild, Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestselling book. Emile Hirsch stars as Christopher McCandless, scion of a prosperous but troubled family who, after graduating from Atlanta's Emory University in the early 1990s, decides to chuck it all and become a self-styled "aesthetic voyager" in search of "ultimate freedom." He certainly doesn't do it halfway: after donating his substantial savings account to charity and literally torching the rest of his cash, McCandless changes his name (to "Alexander Supertramp"), abandons his family (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden as his bickering, clueless parents and Jena Malone as his baffled but loving sister, who relates much of the backstory in voice-over), and hits the road, bound for the Alaskan bush and determined not to be found. For the next two years he lives the life of a vagabond, working a few odd jobs, kayaking through the Grand Canyon into Mexico, landing on L.A.'s Skid Row, and turning his back on everyone who tried to befriends him (including Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker as two kindly, middle-aged hippies and Hal Holbrook in a deeply affecting performance as an old widower who tries to take "Alex" under his wing). Penn, who directed and wrote the screenplay, alternates these interludes with scenes depicting McCandless' Alaskan idyll--which soon turns out be not so idyllic after all. Settling into an abandoned school bus, he manages to sustain himself for a while, shooting small game (and one very large moose), reading, and recording his existential musings on paper. But when the harsh realities of life in the wilderness set in, our boy finds himself well out of his depth, not just ill-prepared for the rigors of day to day survival but realizing the importance of the very thing he wanted to escape--namely, human relationships. It'd be easy to either idealize McCandless as a genuinely free spirit, unencumbered by the societal strictures that tie the rest of us down, or else dismiss him as a hopelessly callow na?f, a fool whose disdain for practical realities ultimately doomed him. Into the Wild does neither, for the most part telling the tale with an admirable lack of cheap sentiment and leaving us to decide for ourselves. --Sam Graham
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