One of my top ten movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (12 November 2007)

I've seen many a movie I thought deserved an Oscar. Into the Wild deserves something greater. It would be like giving Jesus the Nobel prize for peace. If thats all you got, then it ain't good enough. Sean Penn has created a haunting masterpiece that is more akin to visual poetry than cinema. Christopher McCandless, the main character, leaves everything behind but what he can carry and embarks on a journey across America that takes him to the wilds of Alaska. His journey is as much spiritual as physical. You could well take any single frame of this movie and hang it as a prized photograph on your wall. Along the way McCandless deeply touches the lives of others he meets. I find myself to be one of them.