Into the Wild is a Phony Movie

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2011)

This movie did not stick to the truth and is therefore antithetical to﻿ what the real Chris actually believed. The book and the documentary by Ron Lamothe are much better, because they stay very close to the truth of the story. For example, McCandless did not die from eating a poisonous plant, as the movie suggests, but from starvation. The relationship with the dumb girl Tracy was overemphasized. The real Chris did not burn all of his identification cards as he did in the movie at the beginning - they were found in a backpack which was found in Alaska following his death and which also contained a rough map of the area. The movie also makes him seem like even more of a butt face to his parents than the book did. The movie puts a huge emphasis on truth but does not stick to the truth; the movie is hypocritical and stupid. Some truth still shines through, but in the end the movie is a trashy and false account of a person's life.