Into the Wild

Into the Wild
by Sean Penn

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Actor: Catherine Keener, Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, William Hurt
Director: Sean Penn
Brand: HIRSCH,EMILE
Producer: Sean Penn
Writer: Sean Penn
Producer: Art Linson
Producer: David Blocker
Producer: Frank Hildebrand
Producer: John J. Kelly
Writer: Jon Krakauer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 148 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of Into the Wild

DVD Review: it's always the same pattern...
Summary: 3 Stars

Rich boy scorns hard-working parents, longs to live a "real" life and not waste it like other sheep who follow the norm and -- horrors! -- follow the rules. Interesting that only young rich white men have this particular chip on their shoulders; a moving movie about a spoiled, unwise, arrogant young man who ironically does nothing but waste his life.

DVD Review: Teacher Based Opinion
Summary: 4 Stars

This item was purchased to supplement a novel unit of the same name. The movie is an excellent adaptation of the novel, not something often said from my mouth, however the "R" rating may make it difficult to show in class. The nudity scenes are easily skipped, without causing detriment to the movie. The movie highlights the most important part of the novel, while not losing the voice and randomness that Krakauer created in the novel. I would gladly recommend the movie to anyone.

DVD Review: Awesome Film
Summary: 4 Stars

Shipment arrived on expected date. Smooth transaction. Good quality and good film make the time to purchase worthwhile.

DVD Review: Great movie about the meaning of life
Summary: 5 Stars

Actually this review is about the movie. The dvd worked perfectly. The movie is simply a must for all who wish to see things, both past and present, from a unique and different perspective. The story of Chris McCandless makes you think about what's really important for you, in your life as a human being, and how hard can be to strive to achieve your ends.

DVD Review: Into the Wild - Kosher Version
Summary: 4 Stars

First off; I haven't read the book the film is based on, so this will be a stand-alone review. It is a wonderful film, yet it is a quite distorted message compared to the one Christopher McCandless attempted to send out. It is probably the most "radical Right-wing" and anti-materialistic (read: anti-American) film you'll ever see come out of America that will achieve relatively big mainstream success. A low-caste non-political friend of mine once exclaimed; "That's you!" when referring to the main character, and I found that very flattering. Christopher McCandless gave away all his money, packed a rucksack full of "Right-wing" authors and after he left his dysfunctional family and beloved sister, he went hiking on his own across the US. Eventually, he decided to try to hike to Alaska, where his spiritual quest would hopefully be completed. Quite inspired by Thoreau he decided to leave behind all the friends he had met during his travels across America and travel to his beloved Alaska.

The film manages to portray the so-called "Other America" quite skilfully, the one we don't usually get to see from other mainstream sources. A nature-loving, religious, European America that actually reads books and is the America that it was envisioned to be. That being said, I don't think Penn, Hirsch or Krakauer really understand the message of McCandless, at all. I mean, have YOU ever heard of a member of the Tribe that gave away all his money and went off to find himself and God in a protest against capitalist and hollow America? Hirsch does a very good role, but it would have been better to find an actor that was genetically and phenotypically similar to McCandless (in my view).

That being said, there are so many great qualities about this film; the scenery is breathtaking, the relationships gut wrenching, the idealism so strong and Eddie Vedder's music makes this one of those films you just have to see. If only everyone in the so-called "West" would go see (and understand) the message of McCandless, perhaps we could take a step back towards discovering our European soul. The film is almost too much to watch at times, as in the dialogues between the young Christopher and the aging Ronald Frantz. Brought tears to my eyes, something which hardly happens often, to say the least. Read the books McCandless did, watch the film several times and most importantly; go into nature and think about these issues. I'm sure you'll discover much about yourself and our future in the process. 4,5 stars.

Description 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.

A 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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