Engaging and moving performances

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2008)

Who hasn't considered the banality of our existence and wondered what it would be like to go wild, living on the land like our ancestors thousands of years ago. This true story of Christopher McCandless and his escape from a life of double standards and lies into the truth of the wilds of Alaska is a sad and moving tribute to his life. I was pondering my own children and whether my feelings to hope to see them succeed and become everything I think they can be would ever push them too hard and they would just walk away like Christopher did. Well I sure hope not, but like all these things they can happen to the most well intentioned people. Though honestly their lives did sound pretty mixed up, you can understand how a someone with a delicate soul simply couldn't survive in it. You are really hooked in to Christopher and his life, like those of his parents. Everyone is portrayed in such a sensitive and real way that you really feel everyone's perspective. A good follow up will be to read the book and see how they pieced together the story from the brief snippets in his diary, how much of the movie by necessity was conjecture and how much really happened.