Leaves you with a question and somehow answers it too.

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 2020)

Every human somewhere in their life (better to say often in their life) finds it hard to know the purpose of life. That's because they face situations which they are not comfortable with. It might be a soured relationship with your parents, friends or anyone or any other complications. Life doesn't go fancy and cheesy way as we dream
The protagonist in this movie has faced such similar situation. And after graduating from college he feels the lifestyle he has, which is almost perfect, is full of materialistic things which doesn't gives permanent pleasure. All the possessions are just to satisfy the greed which in the end never gets satisfied. This is a never ending circle. He feels that living life in such a way is just a waste of this precious life itself. So he decides to finally leave everything behind and live life without any luxury and money indeed. He believes that money is just an illusion to happiness.
This guy then embarks upon a journey to live a happy life, the life he thinks will be an ideal way of living. While spending years staying away from his family, he does everything that he couldn't have done otherwise, those things he previously ws afraid to do. He decides to spend sometime alone in the Forests of Alaska an takes it as a challenge. And on this journey he happens to meet many people who cares for him, he even finds his love, but he ignores them all considering them as the trap of the life. And finally he makes it to Alaska, lives there and that's where the realization or we can call it an enlightenment comes in.
What I conclude from this movie is, life is not about getting secluded from this world of people. Though it is also important to experience what nature looks like, spend a good time in the lap of nature. But, living in nature in solitude is a delusion. In life you have to go through many phases, but you need to have faith in God and you must go on spreading love, doing the things you love, spending your time with lovely people. But evading everything is never an option. The movie comes to an end with the quote 'happiness only real when shared'. This quote explains everything.
On the other hand, this movies very perfectly depicts the actual challenges faced while being in the wild. Bear Grylls and his adventures only look practical on the tv screen but when you have to actually live by them, it's too much challenging.
I strongly recommend everyone who loves meaningful cinema to watch this movie. It will surely give u a new perspective.