In addition to being to a versatile actor Sean Penn is a bright, promising and super talented director also...and this evident in this movie!!!!the movie brings to my mind Castaway, Robinson Crusoe how people or rather a single individual is capable of surviving the odds especially against mother nature....based on a true story on Christopher Mccandless and converted into a novel by Jack Krakauer and released in 1996 the movie traces the journey of Christopher ( Emile Hirsch shedding off his tag as the lovesick teenager from another favorite movie of mine The girl next door :-) performs with elan and the future mature role in milk) who fed up of the materialistic,selfish,unfufilling world he is living decides to go to Alaska on a quest...
the photography in this movie is simply mind blowing...my favourite scene is when Christopher climbs on top of the mountain and raises his arms towards the heavens( he just feels happy that he is doing that without a care in the world, like he has no tensions to take care of that moment...the movie also features a splendid soundtrack courtesy of Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder whose voice and lyrics perfectly blends in with the script...
the movie shows the dreams,adventurous spirit,aspirations,heated arguments,frustrations,the pressure of achieving the dreams of our parents that we see in our daily lives...the final image of the real life Christopher is heartbreaking...Sean Penn u rule!!!!! We need more movies like this!!!
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