One of the best movies I saw.

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2014)

Movie review
The movie "Into the wild", directed by Sean Penn in 2007, has a length of 143 minutes and is a dramatic and adventure movie. Chris, played by Emile Hirsch, is the lead character and 22 years old. The movie stars with Chris' graduation from college. While he is having lunch with his family, his parents tell him that they want to buy him a new car because of his graduation. But he does not want them to because he likes his car he has. Chris wants to live without money. He decides to leave. He burns his money and changes his identity. While he is tramping he gets to meet Jan and Rainy.
Then he goes to a farm, where he earns some money to fulfill his dream. After that he paddles down the river to Mexico with a canoe and meets some people from Denmark. Later he goes by train to a big city, back to society but he did not really like it there. Then he leaves the city by train again. He meets Jan and Rainy again and lives with them in a hippie village. There he meets a girl. They become friends and the girl wants more than just to be friends but Chris does not think the same way. After a few days Chris leaves the village and gets to meet Ron on his journey. He is like a parent to him. At last Chris goes to Alaska, where he has wanted to go for a long time. There he finds a magic bus, where he lives a few months. He finally lets his dream come true. He lives alone in the wild. But Chris dies by an accident. He accidentally eats a toxic plant and dies.
In this movie there are a lot of high-angle shots. This shows that Chris is so tiny in this big nature and Chris looks weak against the nature. There are also a lot of extreme long shot that give the viewer the feeling of freedom because nature is so big, quiet and nobody is there.
The message of the movie is that you need someone to be happy with, if you live alone away from society. The location is the whole time the nature which gives the viewer the feeling of reality. The movie gives me the impression that Chris is happier with other people around. And it also creates suspense in the end when Chris is getting skinnier. In my opinion the film is good to show how necessary social connections are and that you can't live alone in the nature when you don't know every plant and animal. But I find it really impressive how Chris follows his dream even if he doesn't go back to his family. I also think that such a journey isn't something for a long time, because it is normal that people need social contacts. I would do a journey like this in the beginning when Chris meets new people but I wouldn't burn my money and my identity. All in all I would say that the movie is very interesting and when you know that the movie is based on a true story it's more interesting.