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Download, Watch online Into the Wild Movie.
| Genres: | AdventureDramaBiogra |
| Starring: | Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, Emile Hirsch, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener |
| Director(s): | Sean Penn |
| Available Quality: | DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 2007 |
| IMDB Rating: | 8.2 |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire 24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
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Visitor Reviews: (20)
pianys 17 May 2012
Mind gone wild
This starts out like a fairly ordinary young man breaking free from thenorm, finding his inner self. But a lot more is added. Alex/Chris hasissues with his parents, well dad mainly, and goes off on an adventure,where the goal is living off the wild in Alaska.On the journey he meets people that really care for him, but he mustkeep moving. His choices seem to make sense at first, but gradually youwonder about his self preservation.At the end I pondered what his own take on the story would be, and ifhe actually managed to grow up, he was still so young. Some say thebrain is not fully developed until age 25.As a film I totally recommend: direction, acting and pretty mucheverything is first class.
17 May 2012
Magnifying the Joy and Angst of Coming of Age
Christopher McCandless, in becoming 'Alexander Supertramp', holds a mirror to us all, a meditation on what the ideal life completely in tune with nature, surviving only on ingenuity and adaptation skills, leaving the increasingly burdensome conflicts of society behind in order to become at one with the universe. Based on Jon Krakauer's reconstruction of McCandless' journey from his diary, from letters, and from notes found after his death at age 23, IN THE WILD has been transformed into a Waldenesque film by Sean Penn who provided both the screenplay and the direction. While some may argue the very loose technique of relating this story, few will come away form this film untouched by the sheer dreamy valor of a youth determined to find his own connection to the meaning of existence.The bright McCandless (Emile Hirsch) graduates from Emory University and faces a celebratory dinner with his wealthy but dysfunctional parents (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden) and his adoring younger sister Carine (Jena Malone). During the stilted and revealing dinner Christopher declines his parents' gift of a new car and instructions on how to proceed with his life of success, instead electing to leave it all behind and secretly set off on a personal journey to live in the wild. Stripping himself of worldly possessions he begins his road trip with the ultimate destination being Alaska. Along the way he encounters various people: Wayne Westerberg (Vince Vaughan) who offers him work harvesting grain and camaraderie; Jan and Rainey (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker), two middle-aged hippies who offer him a sense of family; Tracy (Kristen Stewart), a 16-year old who offers him physical love Christopher cannot condone; a Danish couple he encounters while rafting; and the elderly Frank (Hal Holbrook) who has no family and lives alone making leather trinkets, eager to 'belong' to the young man whom he sees as needy yet courageous.Christopher's journey pretty much covers America and Mexico, from the plains and farms to the homeless streets of Los Angeles to the splendors and natural cruelties of nature in Alaska. His struggles survive are balanced by his inebriation with the wonders of the natural world untouched by society. Yet in the end he faces his own dissolution into the dust of nature alone. Hirsch immerses himself in this physically demanding role and manages to hold onto our hearts all through his journey. The flow of the story is at times discordant with the over voice narration by Jena Malone and the insertion of bits and pieces of quotations that aren't pieced tightly together enough to avoid sounding superficial. Yet the supporting cast is very strong, including a brilliant little cameo by Cheryl Francis Harrington as a social worker with heart. The photography (Eric Gautier) is stunning and the musical score, courtesy of Michael Brook, Kaki King, and Eddie Vedder, fits the mood through the film. And throughout the film Sean Penn has the restraint and taste to keep the story vital without ever making it maudlin. A very fine film. Grady Harp, March 08
djeo89 12 May 2012
Some minutes that seems to be an entire lesson of life
What I said about movies once, was that them could not influence me somuch that I could have start a new life.This movie, this story, was inspired me with every little second, word,picture, even with its sounds. Im writing the review, just after I'veseen the movie. I could take it like a lesson of life, Im finding inthis story(parents, places, peoples, prejudices, relations), but Im notgoing to do the same thing, I prefer another way of happiness.We all know that every piece of our body felt stronger in the place ofwhere belongs to.I think every body has its own piece of review...every piece of its ownjournal about this movie.Appreciate your job Mr's!
lgaunt_9 12 May 2012
Bad movie about self discovery
Read Walden instead. This sad exploration of one boy's stupidity in hisquest for isolation left me wondering why everyone likes this movie somuch. The pacing is slow. The reasons behind our hero's actions are notexplained enough to make them believable. The "interesting" charactersthat he meets on his journey are mostly hollow shells of some"meaningful" stereotype.The cinematography was solid. The images of Alaska were stunning. Thefeeling of isolation was very real. I like deep, thoughtful films about life, meaning, and self discovery.This just was not one of them. Though it tried.
jimbecker1956 07 May 2012
Why wasn't this movie nominated for Best Picture?
I just watched this film on DVD after having read the book about 6years ago. I found it to be an excellent film adaptation of an originalstory.The acting is excellent. Emile Hirsch gives one of those "careerdefining" performances. The rest of the cast was quite good. HalHolbrook has a small but very touching part. What impressed me aboutthe film overall is the excellent story telling. Sean Penn found a wayto make the story compelling by using different voices to narrate thestory. My major question is "Why was this not nominated for BestPicture?". I would say it is a better film than Michael Clayton or NoCountry. I wonder if it was hurt by the way it challenges contemporarysocial and cultural values? Of course one could just resort to sayingthat Chris was "crazy" but that doesn't really address the fact that hetried to live a life based on complete integrity without compromise. Aninspiring story, a heroic tale? A great film.
kenjha 07 May 2012
Clichés Abound
This film recounts the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man whodecided to drop out of society and go live in the wilds of Alaska. Pennshould stick to his day job. He employs every cinematic cliché known toman in an attempt to romanticize the story and portray the McCandlessas a hero. Apparently McCandless was so charming that he instantlybonded with everyone he met on his journey, and everyone he met was ahippie. However, based on the evidence presented here, the guy wasnothing more than a pretentious, self-absorbed, and irresponsible jerkwho put his family through hell. Slow motion is utilized in every otherscene, effectively doubling the length of the film.
David 05 May 2012
Rare When A Great Book Meets It's Match
...but Sean Penn makes just that occur. He gently nudges you towards a realization that a young man found just a second too late. For all his searching...he already had what happiness required. Amazing acting (Hal Holbrook will rip your heart out with gentle, broken love) teamed with the beauty of the wild. This young man lived a full (if flawed) life - I only wish he could have told us the tale...and some will argue he still managed to.You will not forget this film and it is worth searching out.
sonick_yooth 05 May 2012
Happiness only real when shared
Have you ever felt stifled by society, weary of your mundane, routinelives, of that constant paradigm of modern life: finish school-find ajob- earn money so you don't starve. Then earn some more money, butnever quite enough. Then have a wife and kids and be supposedly happy.And then die and that is it, no second chances sailor. Have you everbeen a Supertramp? At least inside your mind and your imagination? Everwanted to burn all the bridges that weigh you down to society, likebricks tied to your legs, to give up on all of the pain and irritationof steel and glass cities, on mind numbing television, on stupid peopleand their stupid, pointless lives? Have you ever wanted to do it?Follow him then, let him show you the way, let your mind free and breedin Alaskan air, get high on life with old hippies. Just don't forget:happiness only real when shared...
02 May 2012
Leaves It To You To Decide...
At first, I wasn't sure how to feel about INTO THE WILD. I'd read the book a few years ago and enjoyed it, but it left me feeling a bit bitter about someone as privileged as Chris McCandless (the main character/person in Jon Krakauer's nonfiction novel by the same name) who shuns his upper echelon possibilities after graduating from Emory and disappears into America, leading the free life of a moneyless vagabond.Certainly we've all thought about what it would be like to be completely unencumbered by the shackles of "things." No cars. No mortgages/rent. Nothing but the open road and endless options spreading out before us. And this is what makes us care for Chris McCandless, the unfortunate (and very misguided) young man who's fate is tied to his own ignorance of what that kind of life entails.If you speak to anyone from Alaska, most will tell you what an idiot McCandless was. He went into the wild with only a backpack and a rifle, supposedly "ready" to live the life of a hermit on a decrepit and abandoned school bus. The Alaskan wilderness (or any comparable wilderness really) is unforgiving. If you aren't prepared, you're going to die. And McCandless, with his lofty dreams of wildlife living, was ill-prepared in the extreme; his life cut short due to his own ignorance. So why the five star rating, you may ask? Well, I'm not here to support or degrade what McCandless did or didn't do. I'm here to rate the film, and on that, you can't help but appreciate what director Sean Penn has given us. Showing McCandless' strengths and weaknesses, Penn guides us through the life of Chris without telling us how to feel about it. Actor Emile Hirsch pulls in an extremely powerful performance as Chris McCandless. The fact that the Academy didn't recognize him is a shame; they did note Hal Holbrook's supporting actor performance (which was damn good), but a far cry from Hirsch's awesome job (he lost 40 lbs during the filming so that he could show McCandless' starvation). Penn's screenwriting and directing are flat-out amazing, giving us a story that allows the viewer to make his or her own judgements about this very enigmatic young man.I feel compelled to mention that some may compare McCandless' actions with those of another dead Alaskan visitor, Timothy Treadwell of the nonfiction film Grizzly Man. Although both certainly had their failings, Treadwell was definitely mentally ill, while McCandless simply seemed to lack life goals and instead substituted vagrancy in order to run away from problems back home.In the end, I finally came to the conclusion that Penn did exactly what all great film makers do: he gave us a story that many people probably would've found pretentious and plopped it into our laps without any filters or rose-coloring. That put the burden on the audience to come to terms with what McCandless' life really meant. Fool? Free-Spirit? Ignorant preppie? Loving brother? Easy-going drifter? Or perhaps a mesh of many of those. You decide.
zaferrana 01 May 2012
The Lumiere Bros are turning in graves ... from boredom
I should have seen it coming for I had been invited to see this movieby a friend whose taste in "cinematography" is ... let's say peculiar.So, he tells me that there is a movie which touched him so deeply thatnot only has he seen it downloaded from the web but he is also planningto go to the movies. Wow, me thinks. That must be something good(knowing how cheap he is). So that alone was a pretty goodrecommendation, apart form the thousand of stories heard from my friendhow now he wants to quit his job and go "into the wild".Nothing more misleading. "Into the wild" is simply not a good movie.Why?*** It is boring and inconsistent ***Too long. Too slow (leave it to Europe). Too naive (seriously? a truestory?) Too bleak ... The plot has potential, can't deny that. But notboredom makes a movie masterpiece. *** The protagonist makes me do a self-lobotomy ***Seriously? Leave everything to became a bum? If you want to contest thesystem there are plenty of options far better than harvesting orchoosing the ugliest place on earth to settle. Not convincing (yes, yesI know that this is a true story - but no need to film it)*** The nature presented in the flick is ugly ***I blame you Sean Penn for showing your country in the worst lightpossible. I have seen lots of movies, pictures, images, photosdepicting this part of America and it seems very harsh but beautiful.But no, my main character will choose the ugliest place possible andthen he will eat something poisonous and die. Reaaaally deep. Andtouching. And blah, blah, blah.
22 April 2012
Inexplicable scene
I thought overall the film was interesting, but a little slow. What ruined it for me was the scene where Alex looks directly into the camera and mugs. If this was supposed to be a documentary,it would be OK. But it's not, so all believability was out the window for me at that point.By the way, another reviewer's Geico caveman comment was spot-on.
Zanzibar 21 April 2012
Wonderful - but ultimately the story of a misguided fool
As a film it's hard to fault Into the Wild. It's a fantastic piece offilm-making - brilliantly directed and with a stand-out performance byEmile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless. With a superb narrative driveand accompanied by the wonderfully melancholic acoustic music of EddieVedder it's at times both moving and incredibly uplifting.However, the film's weak point is the fact that it's based on a truestory - and a real person - with the resultant constraint imposed onthe ending. Because no matter how much Jon Krakauer or Sean Penn mighttry to romanticise the character of McCandless, they can't change thefact that he stupidly killed himself for no reason.It's also hard to hide the fact that McCandless wasn't that nice aperson. How much of his real character comes out in the film is open toquestion - but Hirsch's portrayal, when one analyses it, is really oneof a spoilt, selfish, egotistical fantasist who shunned his parentssimply because they argued a lot and because he was born out ofwedlock.At any one time there are probably thousands of white, middle-classyoung adults from western countries like McCandless who, havingrealised that the world isn't such a nice place after all, rail againstsociety and pursue some form of idealistic path in life. Unlike most(who succumb to the realisation that some element of conformance isnecessary to actually live in the real world) McCandless gainednotoriety because his inexperience, naivety and arrogance ultimatelyresulted in his needless death. He ended up trapped in the Alaskanwilderness by a river which had risen since he had first crossed it.But had he simply taken a proper map with him he would have known thata crossing existed a mere quarter-mile away from where he originallywaded across! Somewhat arrogantly, he thought he knew all he needed toknow and paid for it with his life. So in the end it's hard to sympathise with Hirsch's character. Which isa shame because had the ending been more uplifting - even if McCandlesshad somehow died for a worthy idealistic cause - this would be a trulylife-changing film.
fogtender 21 April 2012
This guy died down the road from me
He was an idiot that had every intention of getting himself killed. He gave everything away before he came to Alaska with that intention. The bus that he died in is where many of us go to camp out in during hunting season, and I have been to it many times before and after his death.If he wanted to be saved, all he had to do was build a signal fire. I fly over the bus all the time as do most Alaskan Pilots going from Fairbanks to Anchorage. He had an average of twenty to thirty planes a day fly over at less than a couple of thousand feet above him. At that level, anyone could have see a fire and reported it. The bus had enough rubber still to put out a really black cloud of smoke that could be seen for miles.He tipifies the normal "City" person that comes to the wilderness and thinks they know everything, when they in fact know nothing.People see this movie and think they gain insite to what it is like to be here standing outside of my doorstep. Wilderness is just that "Wild-Ness" and can kill those that are not prepaired.The book was a best seller in NY, but didn't sell but a few copies in Alaska because everyone here knew it was bogus. The diary he kept was spiced up to match his imagination as he wrote it sitting there waiting to die.
Maggie 21 April 2012
understand but not agree
I was disappointed that most critiques of Into the Wild haveromanticized the story way too much. The highlighted ideas, rangingfrom going back to nature/the innocence, being true, to abandoningmaterialism, plus the beautiful scenery gave me all the reasons towatch this movie, which is based on the true story of Chris McCandless.With these expectations in my mind, I could not have anticipated to seea young man, despite his curiosity for the meaning of life, wastehimself by indulging in anger and extremes. Yes, the story tells uswhat led to the anger and we understand his pain. I also acknowledgethe positive influence McCandless brought for the people he met on hisjourney. I am even impressed by his uncommonly high moral standard andhis open mind to people living on the edge. But, his stubbornness andinsistence to stay in the wild was due to his hatred and the urge torevenge his parents. His ultimate goal of finding the truth was adisguised, if not self-deceit, mission to prove his parents'wrongdoings. The hypocrites or even the society he talked about are notanybody but his parents. The ways he chose to find, to reveal, to usethe truth all show that he just wanted to hurt his parents and makethem guilty. Connecting to nature is one thing, but subjecting oneselfto the wilderness without backup or a well thought plan is another. Itis reckless and ignorant no matter how much courage or stamina isinvolved. It is a disheartening story, and definitely not romantic orpoetic, with nothing worth glorification except the beauty of nature. Ihave a lot of empathy for the protagonist and his family, but find theso-called adventure pointless. In contrast, the subplots manage to begeared to the evolving of mutual growth for the characters, includingChris McCandless himself. It is a pity that the built-up of thesegrowths did not sublime soon enough for him to make a rational choice.I sincerely believe that with his intelligence and sense of justice,Chris McCandless could have led a very meaningful life for himself andfor the disadvantageous. I was feeling unusually upset when I saw himso blinded from other alternatives. It felt so sad when I looked at hisdad break down. The greatest performance was found towards the end ofthe movie where William Hurt, who looked calm, stepping out of thehouse, inside which Mom was setting the table for Thanksgiving (orChristmas?) dinner. First a wide shot showed him looking up the sky.Then a close-up showed his face grimacing in pain with his bloodshoteyes. His whole body was drastically trembling. He was actually tryingto stop his tears running down his face when he looked up in theprevious wide shot. He tried so hard to repress his sadness but itturned out to be a break down. He fell onto the ground in the yard,sitting there with his tightly clinched fists twitching, and crying intotal distress. What a heartbreaking scene The bright side on thewhole is that, Chris McCandless eventually forgave his parents and feltlove for them  upon his death.
mdechene 13 April 2012
Very Different!!
This film was well directed. The scenery was unbelievable. I did notknow until the end credits that the film was based on fact. You thinkabout the portrayal of the main character and wonder whether or notsomeone could really do what the film portrayed. Then, you find outthat it really happened! In some ways, it seems like a life that onewould like to live. On the other hand, you look at it and say thatthere is no way that you could live the life of the main characterportrayed in the movie. It is REALLY food for thought. The maincharacter was well portrayed. No great acting ability, just well done.The rest of the characters had small parts that one could judge as towhether or not they were bits of good acting or just a way to earn somemoney.
Rohit Sharma 13 April 2012
" Happiness is not real unless shared"
Few days ago I watched this movie based on a true event. Aftercompleting his graduation, son of an American millionaire decides to beone with Nature and heads out to Alaska to live all alone in itswilderness without access to anything other than his small backpack ofsome food, clothing,other misc stuff and a shotgun(he's thrown all hiscash, credit card,ID etc away before starting!).After managing to live in the remote area of Alaska for sometime(abouta year !) he ultimately succumbs to the harsh surrounding by mistakenlyeating a poisonous plant. And before breathing his last, the finalwords he wrote in his diary were - 'Happiness is not real unlessshared'.Sean Penn direct this wonderful movie based on the events written inthe dairy and I believe the information shared by the family.
BuffsRawlinson 08 April 2012
solipsistic naive self indulgent adolescent
weenblow's comment is pretty representative of those who found thismovie to be concerned with a solipsistic, naive, self indulgentadolescent "I feel like I have been cheated. There was really nothingof much redeeming value to be found in this film. The characterdevelopment did not help me to sympathize with the main character, hecame off as a brash, uninformed idealist with no real intelligence." Mysummary judgement is that a] the book is about spoiled rich brat in along line of writers who have the luxury to criticise 'society' fromthe vantage of privilege b] the movie in representing this is bound tofail Please don't waste your time: it's an example of a 'cult' moviethat feeds on its own self importance. Come back Thoreau, Rosseau, BeatPoets et al - all is forgiven. grrrrrrr 1 is too generous; please canIMDb provide a negative number scale as well? If so I'd give this minus10
eslak 07 April 2012
Complete waste of time
Uninteresting and very boring story about a selfish, arrogant man,blaming all his problems on his parents, who runs away from his familyto live in the wilderness for 4 months before he finds out thathappiness is found in the company of other people and family.Uninteresting and very boring story about a selfish, arrogant man,blaming all his problems on his parents, who runs away from his familyto live in the wilderness for 4 months before he finds out thathappiness is found in the company of other people andfamily.Uninteresting and very boring story about a selfish, arrogantman, blaming all his problems on his parents, who runs away from hisfamily to live in the wilderness for 4 months before he finds out thathappiness is found in the company of other people and family.
Sheldon Westrheim 05 April 2012
Great If Ready
This film was excellently executed. Realistic acting, goodcinematography...for some parts of the movie I forgot it was areenactment! Yet I was thrown off and not prepared for the gruesome andupsetting scenes as the trailer and writings claimed it was arevolutionary happy movie. As some of it is, it still has and concludeswith some negatives. As long as you are prepared, great story.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
delibebek 05 April 2012
Should have kept it simple
It's a difficult to task to bring a true story to film and do justiceto it. It's even harder when the main character, around whom the entirefilm revolves, isn't around to help out. Even so, if the filmmakerskeep in mind the character's actions and movement through the variousphases of the narrative, the story can come out both coherent and trueto the existing knowledge of the person's life.In the case of "Into the Wild" the film was unfortunately made in sucha way as to overpower notions of the life of Chris McCandless byexcesses in the making of the film. The slow- motion scene of Chrisalmost falling into a river might make sense to someone who has readthe book but it just hangs around in the middle of the movie. Thehand-held motions and quick zooms during the self-detox scene tend toobscure what's going on more than to tell the story. All throughout,the mood music is to monotonous. I have an understanding of the use ofleitmotif, but this isn't the case here. It's just the same music usedthroughout the nearly two and a half hours of this movie.The performances are reasonably good, but the depictions of Chris'sfamily back home are overwrought snippets that are emotionally detachedfor the viewer. I felt I was seeing outtakes of a drama workshop,rather than a professionally made film.This film could be interesting. It's an interesting topic and even morepoignant because it's essentially true. I can't complain that the movietook liberties, because it didn't. It's failure is that the film makersworked too hard to make things interesting and their efforts are onlydistracting.