Into the Wild (2007)
Starring: Emile Hirsch, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Hal Holbrook
Director: Sean Penn
Screenplay: Sean Penn
Running Time: 148 minutes
Based on the biography by Joe Krakouer, Into the Wild is the story of a young man trying to find the meaning of life in the barren landscape of America's remote hinterland.
Told in flashback, we discover that the reason for McCandless living the life he did may have been to deep psychological scars suffered as a child with his parents constant bickering and fighting giving him a skewed view of the world and his place in it.
Penn has done an outstanding job with both script and direction and French cinematographer Eric Gautier makes the most of the Alaskan location, easily giving the viewer the feel of isolation that is McCandless’s world.
Harden and Hurt make the most of their limited screen time, but this is Hirsch's show, and he does a great job of conveying the real McCandless's state of mind.
Without giving away too much of how it pans out, there are those who think that the real-life McCandless was some sort of anti-hero living his life on his terms, others thought he was a fool to even attempt the feat.
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