Wonderful to watch. Difficult to discern.

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2019)

A tale of self-discovery and caution. Life is a hard hand. Life is a forced hand. And more often than not, we are dealt cards that don't make sense to us. Such was the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless. His soul, that of an adventurer, had never belonged to the world he'd grown up in. And so, as the cage opened, the bird flew away. It's only mistake? It had never known the nuances of flying.
There's a limit to everything. Freedom, adventure and even extremism. And the story of McCandless, or Alexander Supertramp as he called himself, is a reminder to all of us that too much of anything, is really bad.
Wonderful settings, a fine account of the wilderness and of different exotic pocket worlds that exist independent of the conventions of our society, make this a fine picaresque tale. On the negative aspects, the movie is perhaps, on the whole, a little vague and the exact evolutions within McCandless are difficult to discern.