Went with some of the South End Gang to see this last night...I loved this movie. LOVED this movie. It was beautiful, haunting, compelling, real, tragic, fascinating, quiet, exhilerating, sad. The narrative style reminded me of The Virgin Suicides (another favorite if you recall.) The soundtrack was incredible (I do have a soft spot for Eddie Vedder)...in a way it captured so perfectly the era of the early '90s. Emile Hirsch was extraordinary. I've never paid him much attention but he made me fall in love with him. This character was so many boys I know, and was me as well, and everyone who has ever felt trapped in an ordinary life or wished just for once to be alone, alone with their thoughts, alone with God, alone with nature. Well done, Sean Penn. I've always wanted to read the book (by Jon Krakauer) and now I think I must!
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Never heard of it till now, but it does look interesting now that I have.Thanks Erin.
It is a very good book. Jon Krakauer is an amazing author. I've read a couple of his other books to: Into Thin Air and Under The Banner of Heaven. Haven't seen the movie yet but definitely will and glad to hear it is so good.
Kami
oh erin. i'm so glad you liked it.
i adore the book and you described it so perfectly. i had doubts that it would live up to the book but it sounds as if it has.
I'm sorry was I the only one who watched the whole movie? It had the chance to be so good but I would like to ask Sean Penn for those 3 hours of my life back...No tears at the end, if anything it portrayed Alex's whole social isolation as nothing but a pure waste. Happiness is best shared-duh...so nice you had to die to figure that out. If we all obsessed about how messed up our parents were we might as well all swear off relationships for life. Grow up and lead your own meaningful existance. And wasn't the whole meaning of his journey to get back to nature? I didn't know that meant hanging out in a bus for 3 months- I pictured more of a loner nomad treking across the wilderness "planet earth" style. Hence the title into the wild. No inspiring story here, just glorified mental problems. But that's just how the movie came across to me, I don't know anything about the true story.
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