Entertaining, well made, has its insights but it's not ideologically consistent.

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 2013)

The film tells a story of a young man who's unhappy with his life. Society, consumism, family, hypocrisy. He 's tired of all the stuff he has to bear living in society. He decides to run away. He packs what's enough for him to survive and he walks. He walks, leaving everything behind, without looking back.
The beautiful photograpy and interesting storytelling, which is based on Alex's sister perspective, welcomes you to run from everything along with him. You catch yourself in the wild with Alex, leading a life in solitude, meeting all sorts of people and beautiful places. You now take a look around your life and see excess, work, fear, hypocrisy, emptiness, things, things, things. Alex teaches us that happiness lies on the simple things. You now catch yourself thinking that you would never have the nerve to drop everything and get immersed in the wild life. Towards the end, Alex realizes that happiness is only real when it's shared. So we have an open question.
The truth is: happiness is where the thought is not. They're unable to coexist. You have to be free from the addiction of thought in order to be happy. That's freedom. Wild animals don't seem to get depressed. Since the neighbour's garden is always greener, Alex must have had felt really happy at first. It wouldn't last, though. And why's that? Your ego, that is, your network of thoughts, tells you that if every adventure you have, every beautiful view you look at, every ingenious move you make to survive won't seem to be worth it if you don't let people know you did them.
Life in society is no good. All right. But what other option do we have? It seems to me that Alex found happiness and then turned up to be wrong. It does not provide you any answer. It's just about this guy who's having an adventure, in his search for happiness. It makes you question everything in your life: your relationships, work, beliefs and then leave you in a void, all by yourself, without any consistent answer.
As for the film itself, it's really entertaining, it has good performances, the characters are very likable and it has a wonderful photography. Its narrative technique is brilliant, because it is told by Alex's sister. She's been through a lot of family problems along with Alex and she understands his choice of running away. So it helps the viewer to forgive Alex for his selfish choice, welcoming you to travel along with him.
Anyway, without any rankings or ratings, I would recommend it.