SCOALA GENERALA POMPILIU MARCEA ,TARGU JIU

INTO THE WILD

 

FILM REVIEW

 

The film ,, Into the Wild ,, is based on a true story and the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer . Director and writer of this production is Sean Penn . The title reveals the idea of the film and if we look a second we will get the entire content .

The film can be seen like a drama because the principal character dies but the optimists can see it like an adventure film . The cast contains famous actors , like Emile Hirsch , Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart , Catherine Keener and William Hurt . We can also see Marcia Gay Harden, Haley Ramm, Merritt Wever ,Thure Lindhardt

 , Susan Spencer  ,Cheryl Francis Harrington. The film has special awards . Was Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 29 nominations .

The film was released in USA  at 9-21-2007 , limited edition.

In Europe was released at September 28, 2008

          The scenes of graduation from Emory University in the film were shot in  2006 on the front lawn of Reed College. Some of the graduation scenes were also filmed during the actual Emory University graduation on May 15, 2006. Alaska scenes depicting the area around the abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail were filmed 50 miles south of where McCandless actually died, in the tiny town of Cantwell. The production made four separate trips to Alaska to film during different seasons .

          After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. His ultimate goal: Alaska and, alone, to test himself and experience the wilds of nature. He does not tell his family what he is doing or where he is going and does not communicate with them thereafter, leaving them to become increasingly anxious and eventually desperate.

                He then creates a new name: Alexander Supertramp. Along his travels, he encounters a hippie couple Jan Burres (Catherine Keener) and Rainey (Brian H. Dierker). As McCandless continues his travels, he decides to work for a contract harvesting company owned by Wayne Westerberg (Vince Vaughn). However he is forced to leave after Westerberg is arrested for satellite piracy. McCandless then goes up at the Colorado River and when he is told that he may not go down by kayak without a license, he acquires a Perception Sundance 12 open-water kayak and, followed by the river police, paddles downriver eventually all the way into Mexico. There his kayak is lost in a sandstorm and he crosses back into the United States. Unable to easily hitchhike, he starts traveling via freight train to Los Angeles. Not long after arriving, however, he starts feeling "corrupted" by modern civilization and decides to leave. Later, McCandless is forced to switch his travelling method back to hitchhiking due to rough security.

          McCandless then arrives at a hippie commune, Slab City and encounters Jan and Rainey again. At the commune, he meets Tracy Tatro (Kristen Stewart), who becomes attracted to McCandless. McCandless decides to continue his goal for Alaska, much to everyone's sadness. McCandless then encounters a retired but lonely leather worker, Ron Franz (Hal Holbrook) in Salton City, California. After spending several months with Franz, McCandless decides to leave for Alaska and Franz gives him gear to use. Franz offers to adopt McCandless as his grandchild, but McCandless tells him that they should discuss this after he returns from Alaska and Franz becomes extremely saddened by his departure. Nearly two years after leaving his family, McCandless crosses a stream in a remote area of Alaska and sets up camp in an abandoned Fairbanks Transit bus. He hunts and gathers, and reads books, and keeps a diary of his thoughts. However life becomes harder . Ultimately on his journey of self-discovery, he concludes that true happiness can also be found in sharing, and in the joy of realization seeks to return from the wild to his friends and family. He is forced to gather and eat roots and plants. He has a book to help him to distinguish edible from inedible, but he confuses similar plants and is poisoned

          The movie ends with a picture of him, found undeveloped in his camera from before he died.

Special moment

At one moment in the film , McCandless has decided to call at home . At the public phone , an old man was imploring his wife to forgive him . The old man can`t speak too much because his time was ending and he didn`t have any coin . McCandless hear the discussion beetween the old man and his wife and  give him his coin renouncing at calling home .

The songs on the soundtrack were performed by Eddie Vedder, guitarist and lead singer of Pearl Jam and Jerry Hannan. Vedder won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for the song "Guaranteed". The score was written and performed by Michael Brook and Kaki King. The music at the end of the theatrical trailer is "Acts of Courage" by X-Ray Dog, a company that supplies music for many movie trailers. The music completes the idea which is transmitted by images , the need of liberty , the need to test yourself and face new experiences .

The message of the film

Life in solitude, in freedom, without constraints and gaps, without wealth or poor, little or no trouble happiness, a life filled with the spirit of who chose to play this character real. Is an opening to the universe and an unfulfilled desire of our dreams!

Hero takes more or less forced the immediate consequences, a decision tantamount to a violation of freedom in a state that is as pure - which seems modern man cannot get access because is too corrupt.

I would like to change the end of the film . I would like to end like that : after seeing Alaska , McCandless chooses  to return at his family.

 

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