An intriguing but unsatisfactory story

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2015)

Many Alaskans discredited Chris McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp as just another person who thought they could survive Alaska and was not prepared which lead to yet another death. However this film, and the book by Jon Krakauer, takes you on his journey and shows you that he was not completely unprepared in that he sought out the knowledge on subjects of hunting and taking care of freshly killed game. Unfortunately it was this knowledge that he got from a hunter from the Midwest that was what leads to his accidental ingestion of poison because he did not think game preservation was going to be different in Alaska. But what makes this film worth watching is its musical score which ties the audience to the characters and really makes you feel for each character and be affected in a similar way by Chris/Alex.