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<br><br><p class="artpara"><em>Release Date: November 11, 2020</em><br/><em>On general release</em><br/><strong>Our Rating: 4/5</strong><br/><br/> If there is one country that could do with a good dose of rebranding, it’s got to be that ol’ US of A. Amidst bombs over Baghdad and every audacious stereotype that the world can throw at them, this new film under the directorial leadership of <strong>Sean Penn</strong> seems to redress conceptions of the American spirit, and points back to where it all started.<br/><br/>You see, before George Dubya and cheeseburgers – ask any European what they thought of Americans and there’s a fairly good chance they’d tell you about the West: the frontier, the pioneering spirit. Nowadays, we tend to forget that the States really was the rugged wild country of adventure only fifty years ago.<br/><br/>Into The Wild is the true story of Christopher McCandless (<strong>Emile Hirsch</strong>), something of a 90s traveller icon, who packed up and ditched his privileged homelife for the on the road existence of a true Yankee hobo. Starting from when McCandless graduates, the film follows his solitary journey up and down the length of America, meeting hippies, unhinged Danes and other lonely souls on the way, before arriving in the unforgiving wilds of Alaska - his final destination…<br/><br/>Inspired by individualist free-spirit writers like <strong>Thoreau</strong> and <strong>Jack London</strong>, McCandless did nothing in half-measures: burning all his money and giving away a huge trust fund to Oxfam before setting off in the pursuit of living entirely off his wits and the land. Penn’s film really brings out this very American angle to McCandless’ story.<br/><br/>Adapted from the bestseller by <strong>Jon Krakaurer</strong>, the story is assembled from diaries that McCandless religiously kept on his travels along with testimonies from his family. <br/>With the exception of a couple of toe curling moments of over-sentimentality, and what might be accused of a slightly rosy-tint, Into The Wild feels very real. And it is pretty inspiring. <br/><br/>If anything, it really makes America look good again. Penn has drafted in <strong>Eric Gautier</strong> for the cinematography, and if you’ve seen The Motorcycle Diaries you’ll know what this guy is capable of. His sweeping, high-contrast shots of American landscapes really make solidly watching Hirsch for over two hours bearable. <br/><br/>That’s not to suggest he’s a bad actor. Not at all. But there are a couple of points when you become aware that he hasn’t been off-camera for more than an hour. We can only speculate what McCandless was like, and Hirsch somehow manages to put into the character all the good and bad you could say about him. It’s just that his habit of staring off into the distance quoting Tolstoy to all and sundry can grate, every now and then…<br/><br/>Nontheless, another superb directorial effort from Sean Penn. A full, inspiring and unusual story with a definite statement behind it. If you can watch this without the impulsion to run off to the Isle of Skye to live in a shack, well, then may God help us all…<br/><br/>Recommended<br/><br/><br/><strong>Competition:</strong><br/>Win a private screening of Into The Wild! <a href="../../camden/fe-fashion_competition-Win-a-private-screening-to-Into-The-Wild/">click here<br/></a><br/><br/><a href="../../camden/fe-arts_cinema_into-the-wild/"><strong>See trailer</strong></a></p>
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