Rewind, Review, and Re-rate: 'Into the Wild': It's Not Man or Nature, but Man and NatureR | 2h 28min | Drama, Adventure | 2007
"Into the Wild" (2007) is one of the most moving cinematic critiques of selfish individualism and haughty naturalism, when practiced at the expense of humanism. Its camera turns outward, to magnify the beauty of the natural world, then inward, to salute the equally beautiful world within us. It makes us muse how tragic it is to find beauty in only one of these worlds.
The film is adapted from the 1996 nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer, loosely based on the travelogue of a nomad, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), who, while in his early 20s, trekked alone across America into the Alaskan wild....
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