Emile Hirsch plays the college kid who's fed up with the real world, so he goes off the grid to the real world in the film adaptation directed by Sean Penn, Into the Wild. His journey is beautiful and tragic and true (based on Jon Krakauer's epic biographic novel on Christopher McCandless). Emile bumps into so many great characters along the way like Kristen Stewart as a super-young-but-sexually-curious-and-sizzlin' hippie on a commune to Vince Vaughn who plays his funny and friendly and felonious boss at the grain mill to Hal Holbrook as the venerable sage (I used this term twice this week, and those who happen to be Betas will also find it familiar) to a list that's too long to fully detail but includes Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt and Jena Malone.
The wilderness is packed with irony with its beauty and unforgiving ways (er, can anyone say flash flood) while freeing and trapping in isolation along with being an adventure and claustrophobic to the state of insanity. The Alanis Morissett lyric that ends up being the dichotomy of death is that while the wilderness presents a safety blanket from the cold madness of what our lives have become in this modern world, if you happen to have the b*lls to actually venture way out there, even the simplest of issues (and there can be many issues) can bring about the most complex and dangerous of predicaments. Watch the movie trailer and read on because...
FilmBender is Funny Movie Reviews. So while this is a heavy story, you'll love the music and the adventure, and in today's increasingly difficult economic circumstance, the thought of the freedom will surely stir something in you. Makes you want to just pull up the stakes and live off the fat of the land -- to really just get out there and get back to basics without the technology and the banking and the boss and the hectic pressure of the day. Eh, maybe I'll just go camping.
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