Review of Into the wild

The real Christopher McCandless

This film explains a real history about a guy (Christopher McCandless, alias Alexander Supertramp) who decides to abandon his possessions, his family and his comfortable life to set forth on a trip. When he finishes the university in 1900, he goes to Alaska in order to connect with the nature. He doesn’t feel happy in the society and he thinks that he would find happiness and peace in the nature.

Christopher McCandless's character in the film

I really enjoyed the film because it made me think a lot. I think that he has the ideas very clear and this is what pushes him to search his own path. He is this kind of people who don’t like living in the society because they think that the properties, the money and the relationships aren’t as important as we think. Alexander Supertramp takes his conception to the extreme and finally, he dies. The humans are social animals, for this reason it is very difficult for all of us to live on the margins of the society.

This film is one more example of these groups of people who decide to live apart from the society. Along the story there have been some groups of people who have decided to build their own life apart. For example, the Epicureans or the Stoics in the Ancient Greece. Nowadays there are also people who live in self-sufficiently away from the civilization because they are against the capitalism and they aren’t happy with the actual system of values. The difference between these groups of people and Alexander Supertramp is that he starts his trip alone and he wasn’t so conscious of the difficulties and the riskiness. He meets some people who have opted for the same kind of life and they help him but only in punctual situations. Moreover, this people tell him that he is a little crazy to go to Alaska alone and without anything.

 

One aspect of the films that I want to outmark is the soundtrack. It has been very famous for the message of the songs. It was made by Eddie Vedder. (You can find it on the Spotiffy.)

These are some quotes which were written for Christopher McCandless:

“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed”

“I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong… but to feel strong”