Hm

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2017)

I have very mixed feelings about this movie. The movie itself is great, it's beautiful, well-cut, entertaining, the story is well laid out, and the acting is great. If this movie was just trying to tell the story as is, it would be fine. Unfortunately it seems like they try to make a hero out of a very immature, very selfish, and - sorry - very, very silly young man.
I'm sure Christopher McCandless was a nice young man who is missed by his family, and I feel for their loss. But he was also an overly naive person who basically knew nothing of life but seemed to live under the illusion of possessing great wisdom. Well, if you know even a little bit about the wilderness, then you probably know that there is nothing romantic about it. Surviving in the wild is tough, requires a lot of knowledge and experience, and for us humans, often the help of other humans. And if you don't have all this, then at least have the brains to bring a compass and a map so that you find home again when the s*** hits the fan.
It somehow angers me that this movie tries to stylize this story as a romantic experiment accidentally gone wrong. No, the only possible outcome by default was that this will go wrong, period. Christopher McCandless was an irresponsible, naive young guy, who has needlessly killed himself and most probably brought a lot of pain over his family and friends. There is really nothing to admire here.