I just watched the movie directed by Sean Penn called Into The Wild. This is probably one of the best movies I have ever seen. It’s a true story about a kid named Christopher McCandless that left the normal paradigm and became a tramp roaming all over Western USA then thumbing all the way to Alaska under his new name Alexander Supertramp to live the real life away from his parents and society in general. I was touched and also inspired by this movie and would recommend this movie for everyone to see.
More about the movie:
Into the Wild tells the adventures of Christopher McCandless, a top student at Emory University and an athlete. After graduating, McCandless decides to give $24,000 of his savings account to OXFAM and later, to burn all the money in his wallet. He hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wild. During his adventure, he encounters several unique people that change his life before he faces the dangers of wilderness.
ICftU gives Into the Wild (5 Stars)
- Emile Hirsch – Christopher McCandless
- Marcia Gay Harden – Billie McCandless
- William Hurt – Walt McCandless
- Jena Malone – Carine McCandless
- Catherine Keener – Jan Burres
- Vince Vaughn – Wayne Westerberg
- Zach Galifianakis – Kevin
- Kristen Stewart – Tracy
- Hal Holbrook – Ron Franz
- Steven Wiig – Ranger Steve Koehler
Here’s a look at trailer.
Also, you can enjoy the soundtrack of the same name by Eddie Vedder. Eddie Vedder is the lead singer of Pearl Jam in cause you didn’t know. The soundtrack is very good but it’s best heard with the movie. Here’s a video of Eddie Vedder’s song from the movie which won a Golden Globe for best original song – Motion Picture called Guaranteed
Guaranteed Lyrics:
Lifting up an empty cup i ask silently
That all my destinations will accept the one that’s me
So I can breathCircles the grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they’ll never know
Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes
Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go
Owning me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you
Everyone I come across in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering but I’m never what they thought
Got my indignation but I’m pure in all my thoughts
I’m alive
Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees they’re singing with the dead
Overhead
Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed
Nice movie indeed. I loved the idea of his principles, and he really did made a point. Even if he died, I guess he didn’t die with regrets. Truly one good story to tell.
The soundtrack was also as good as the movie, and the choice of singer (Eddie Veder) to sing most of the songs really made a difference.
I didn’t know sean penn, the “Sean Penn” directed this movie. made it even better. Thank.
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Comment by everydayman — March 11, 2008 @ 9:45 am