Into The Wild - 2007
Director: Sean Penn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay-Harden, William Hurt, Cathrine Keener
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A new view of how definitions can be revolutionized and values can be perceived, or how the human’s pyramid of needs can be reshuffled. It is a proof that you can decide what you want to be or what is worth living for and how do you want people to remember you. To me it was a great lesson, a new window, and a glance of hope to a world full of monotony and routine.
I have to say this… but only intellectual movie lovers will appreciate this movie… it is conversational, moral, long, and informative… so the short-tempered won’t consider watching this movie a break.
The director (Sean Penn) waited ten years to make this movie; ten years to get the approval from The McCandless family to share their son’s adventure with the whole world and introduce people to his inner self and to the ultimate reason behind this adventure… his own parents.
Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) is a young boy who is every family’s vision of a son; a handsome and a smart youngster who acquires all decent attributes a family tries to pass on to its kids. Not far after he takes off to college until he decides to follow his gut feeling and go to the wild… reaching Alaska.
What is sad about this true story is the last chapter of Chris’s journey, and how his great adventure comes to an end and the way it ends. Despite all the natural, traditional, and emotional constraints that this hero overcame to achieve an ever sought after dream… still he clashed with the foundation of the human’s pyramid… the physiological needs. Yet, no one will ever remember Chris as a weak person but a cheerful, hopeful, and wild one… that’s why he had to go into the wild and stay there!
This motion picture is a beautiful display of how one’s life can be so momentous despite the years lived and how by an honest word or an innocent smile you can grant your place as a girl’s prince who has always dreamed of being with one, or a family’s best friend who reminds them of their own distant son, or a dear child to a kind old man who have always longed for having his own, or your parents’ lost treasure who never knew of it when it was right in front of their eyes.
Life is too short to waste it with hesitations, constraints, and regrets… life is up to one’s beliefs and standard but no body else’s… learn how to do so… watch the movie.
Sounds depressingly interesting
… For me, these type of movies i know I would watch eventually, but I try to post pone that as much as possible, I dont like getting severely depressed, work is enough!
Cheers.
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