Into the life

Rating: 8/10 (14 October 2008)

Into the wild is a great movie (flat out!). It might look like a documentary for the 1st few minutes but as soon as the stages (birth etc.) start coming up, you feel like OK, it's not going to be a NGC documentary but a movie about human psychology, of how one's childhood can determine the direction of the rest of the life. The stages in journey show different aspects of human beings, they all have different personalities, some have a story and some don't. The movie however could have been shorter by 10 minutes by shortening some of the adventure scenes sprinkled throughout the movie. The film has been shot beautifully, the cinematography is break from the regular movies and the background music also goes well with every shot. I really loved the way the fruit of the movie was put into one sentence towards the end 'Happiness is for real when it is shared', which is a great lesson to be learned from this guy's story that the theory that going far from everybody will bring happiness doesn't hold water. Another lesson was nature, music, books, a nice mate and kids together make a meaningful life, get it???