Watch offline. Available to download. This movie is Inspiring, Emotional. German, English [Original]. More Like This. Sean Penn screenplay Jon Krakauer book. Top credits Director Sean Penn. See more at IMDbPro. Top rated movie Trailer Into The Wild. Clip Interview Photos Top cast Edit. Brian H. Dierker Rainey as Rainey as Brian Dierker. Malinda McCollum Waitress as Waitress. Zach Galifianakis Kevin as Kevin. John Decker Hutterite 1 as Hutterite 1.
John Hofer Hutterite 2 as Hutterite 2. Sean Penn. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. I think it's saying soemething about the conformity of our society that anyone who bucks the trend he gave up law school!? In the end, Chris was one of those rare people who wanted to know the world intimately, and in the process of discovering those secrets, was killed by that same world.
Maybe there was something quixotic or foolish in his quest; maybe he should have taken a job, taken a wife, found a safe desk behind which to grow old. Or maybe there is something foolish in us, to believe that we can outlive the world with our caution. View all 12 comments. View all 30 comments. Jun 04, Nadine rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with this book.
The genesis of the book was an in-depth magazine article, and I suspect that the article was superb. But I just don't think there's enough here to warrant an entire book. As evidence, I point to several lengthy chapters that have nothing to do with the underlying story--they discuss other people who have gone "into the wild" and, surprisingly, Krakauer includes a whole chapter about himself. My other problem is that I found myself unable to ident Overall, I was pretty disappointed with this book.
My other problem is that I found myself unable to identify or empathize with the central character here. I think that Chris McCandless was not much more than a privileged, entitled, selfish, and undeniably intelligent person who threw everything away and nearly destroyed his family for reasons that weren't any clearer by the end of the book than they were at the beginning.
I worried far more about his parents and his sister, who he called his "best friend," than I did about him. I almost gave this only 1 star but decided to go with 2 because I want to give Krakauer the benefit of the doubt--it's a well-written book, I just don't think it needed to be written at all.
View all 36 comments. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. Christopher Johnson McCandless began roaming in after graduating college. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. He didn't tell anyone where he was going, what he was doing - just up and left , leaving a stunned sister a The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
He didn't tell anyone where he was going, what he was doing - just up and left , leaving a stunned sister and confused family behind. Like his favorite heroes, he set off for an adventure. Eventually he left behind his car in the Mojave Desert and lived under an assumed name, Alexander Supertramp. It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
He kept his journals with him, he worked when hungry and slowly, but surely, made his way to the Alaskan wilderness. Along the way he met many a wonderful person - of which he touched their lives and even months later, they remembered and knew of him.
His story has captured the hearts and minds of millions, he is gone but he will be remembered. When you forgive, you love. There's a lot to unpack here. I have never read this book, I have never seen the movie but I know his story.
I remember my mom telling me parts when I was a child, my teachers filling me in during history lessons and even friends talk about this unforgettable book. So, when it became available at the library, I had to check it out. And wow. I really didn't know what to expect and this certainly wasn't what I thought I was going to read and yet, it was perfect.
This was told through a third party - someone who read about McCandless's story back when it was a minor blurb in a newspaper and was curious where it began. So, the author picked up the thread and followed it - eventually reconstructing the year before McCandless's death and the reason behind him leaving everything behind.
This book was so well-written. It completely encapsulated this young man's life and death. This is one of those books that once you finish it, you are spoiled for everything else for a long, long time.
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. View all 14 comments. In , roughly around the same time Chris McCandless was living out his final days in the Alaskan wilderness, I would have been enjoying the summer holidays before embarking on my final year at school, contemplating the big wide world and what I was going to do with the rest of my life.
It wasn't until watching Sean Penn's film in I would learn of Chris's story, a story that moved me, immensely.
I always presumed Jon Krakauer's book would be some huge epic, but was surprised on finding out In , roughly around the same time Chris McCandless was living out his final days in the Alaskan wilderness, I would have been enjoying the summer holidays before embarking on my final year at school, contemplating the big wide world and what I was going to do with the rest of my life.
I always presumed Jon Krakauer's book would be some huge epic, but was surprised on finding out it's a little over pages. I simply had to read it, just don't know why it took me so long. It's going to be difficult to review this without making my own thoughts on Chris known first. Although it isn't as straightforward as this, taking everything into consideration, if there is to be a camp criticism and a camp McCandless, then I firmly sit with McCandless.
He was an awe-inspiring bright young man, who simply broke free from the establishment to follow his own path, a path, going by both book and film that was simply stunning. I know there are people that criticized his adventure as reckless, stupid, dangerous and well unequipped for the treacherous landscape of wild Alaska, and were even angry with him, that he deserved what was coming to him, disrespecting nature. Let's not forget something, he probably died a slow agonizing death that you wouldn't wish on anybody, why the anger from people who didn't even know him?
As the old saying goes, it's a free country. And he was just that, free. I do feel for his family of course, I can't begin to imagine the pain and anguish they would have had to injure, and the fact he didn't try to contact his sister Karine, who he was dearly close to, was strange. I just hope his family came to eventually realize that the two years Chris spent on the road he would have been immensely happy.
That's got to count for something. Had he gone on to work, no doubt well paid work, you get the impression he just wouldn't want to be there. Had Chris been some wacko or mentally incapacitated person I would have taken far more pity over his story, but he wasn't, he was highly intelligent and knew exactly what he was doing.
That's why, although he came to a sad end, I am still on the whole, happy for the guy. These two years of traveling had no boundaries, no obligations, no limitations, no expectations. Just exploring the land, exploring life, and himself. Jon Krakauer also included memories from his own youth, trying to draw comparisons with Chris, along with some other historical journey's similar to what McCandless embarked on.
Chris was a keen reader, and used literature as a way to inspire him on the road, there were quotes from the likes of Leo Tolstoy, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau and Wallace Stegner that he noted down in his diary, these play an important role for any outsider trying to understand just who Chris was. The book works wonders on different levels, it deals with non fiction in a dramatic storytelling way, like an adventure novel, but also stays as close as possible to the facts and truths recovered from Chris's diary.
I didn't think his epic story could be condensed down to pages, but it works, only concentrating on the things that truly matter. I was moved to the core. Not many books have had the opportunity to do this to me. Chris may have died young, but his life certainly was a fulfilling one. View all 23 comments. Apr 03, Traci rated it it was ok Recommends it for: People who respect the outdoors. I love Jon Krakauer. I didn't find one single thing about the Alex McCandless even remotely interesting.
He came across as a spoiled brat with no concept of reality - basically because of his priveleged upbringing. But somehow, he blamed his parents for that void of myopic self absorption.
Still I love Jon Krakauer. Still, I know that heading into any forest - particularly one at that latitude and altitude in pursuit of adventure with a no food, b no gear, c no plan and d no backup plan is nothing short of delusional or maybe just stupid. I absolutely adore Jon Krakauer's attempts to explain Alex's possible motives and angst. I get that Krakauer identifies with some of what gnawed at Alex. I wonder about those things with fairly consistent frequency.
I suppose I have my own means of stamping those feelings out alternating burst of extreme carbohydrate consumption and running or spinning; work and volunteerism. Still, the fact that Alex died of exposure in an abandoned bus in Denali National Park is less poignant than poetic - justice, that is. Darwinism, if you want to be cruel. Cringe That sounded really awful, didn't it? But Krakauer carefully paints a picture of a young man completely disillusioned with the life that his parents provided for him, the future they groomed him for.
A life easier, better than theirs. He points to his parents' mistakes and flaws as lightening rods for Alex's rejection of them and his pursuit of deeper understanding. What a luxury. One that we all pursue at some point in our lives and if we have any sense, grow out of. I was constantly irritated with Alex for hitching, homelessness, biting every hand that tried to feed him.
His lonely, desperate death not at all surprising and not terribly sad, either. I had no interest in seeing the movie. I saw trailer images of a young man looking off into the wildnerness with depth and intensity and that is NOT the Alex McCandless I got to know in the book.
If Sean Penn managed to paint a more enlightened image of Alex, then he deviated from the book quite a bit. View all 32 comments. We are all heroes to ourselves. McCandless was, Krakauer is. This doesn't vary. All that varies is how we define heroism and how much, or how little, we are prepared to do to for that stance. In order to get people, usually young men, to sacrifice their lives we tell them of those that went before and tell them they were heroes who died for their countries, died for their principles, died even for their dreams.
Impractical dreams that are the province of the young. And those who would be heroes n We are all heroes to ourselves. And those who would be heroes never concern themselves with the practical, that is far too mundane, it is for others to take care of those details. McCandless' dream of heroism was to survive entirely alone and entirely off the land at the ends of the earth. It didn't include the practicality of learning about the wild foods he might forage in that area, or how he might survive in extreme weather conditions, or even exactly where his place of solitude was situated so that when he sought succour at the end, he didn't even know how close it really was.
The final photograph he took of himself is of a wasted face, gaunt but beautiful with the shining eyes of one who has lived his dream and is satisfied. Then he died. View all 20 comments. The book was adapted to film in , directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless Christopher Johnson McCandless - , a young, and wise man left his family and friends and headed off into the wilderness. Into the Wild addresses the issues of how to be accepted into society, and how finding oneself sometimes conflicts with being an active member in society.
Most critics agree that Chris McCandless left to find some sort of enlightenment. He also tries to find his way in the wild with minimal material possessions, because "it made the journey more enjoyable. Chris McCandless was influenced by transcendentalism and the need to "revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
This book got me riveted in the tragic story of Chris McCandless, a young man who left his family and friends, abandoned most of his material possessions, went to the Alaska wilderness and perished there. The author does a great job of portraying McCandless complex personality through meticulous research based on interviews, letters and journal entries. The writing is so engaging that although it is already clear from the beginning how McCandless' story would end, I was hooked till the last page This book got me riveted in the tragic story of Chris McCandless, a young man who left his family and friends, abandoned most of his material possessions, went to the Alaska wilderness and perished there.
The writing is so engaging that although it is already clear from the beginning how McCandless' story would end, I was hooked till the last page. Krakauer only digresses when discussing his own high-risk undertaking and those of ill-fated adventurers similar to McCandless — these parts offer comparison to McCandless' character but I found myself getting impatient and wanting them to end quickly, to return to the main story itself which is much more compelling.
Readers have been divided with regard to this story. Some admire McCandless' daring and idealism; some others say he was stupid, reckless and arrogant enough to have gone to Alaska without sufficient preparation. I think he was a human being with faults and merits, but I have to admit I felt something stirring in me when I read this passage, taken from a letter he wrote to a friend: " So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation I am the queen of conventionalism.
I don't consider myself unhappy, but I'm always afraid of moving outside the comfort zone, of expanding further than my own comfortable little shell. I often don't exert myself to my best capabilities because halfhearted efforts seemed good enough.
When I read about McCandless, I noticed that one of his admirable traits is if he wanted something he went out and did it. He was not afraid of challenges, the greater they are the better. Jason Mraz says "live high, live mighty, live righteously".
I think that was what McCandless did: he lived up to his ideals. One the other hand, the greatest tragedy of McCandless' life, in my opinion, was his conflicting feelings toward human intimacy and relationship. He clashed with his parents and others who didn't share his beliefs to the point that he spurned humanity and sought nature and the wilderness instead.
But even during his solitary journeys he met a lot of people and connected with them, touching their lives as well as his own. His final odyssey in Alaska had probably made him realize, more than ever, the raw need for companionship, but he didn't survive that trip — causing endless grief to his family.
So in the end, if there is something I can take from McCandless story, it is this message: Be bold. Get out there. Do something. But don't forget those who love you. View all 29 comments. Jan 20, Paul E. This book seems to divide people. One group seems to think McCandless was a visionary; a free-thinking, wild spirit who lived his dream and died an unfortunate, tragic death.
The other group thinks he was a stupid kid; an ill-prepared daydreamer who brought his demise upon himself due to his own idiocy. I think it's entirely possible he was both. In my experience, the two states are not mutually exclusive. The one thing that's clearly true is that his death was avoidable and tragic.
Whichever cam This book seems to divide people. Whichever camp you fall into, this is an upsetting tale. What also upsets me is that, due to the media picking up on this case, with various newspaper and magazine articles being written about it, a movie being made and the surefire win for anyone looking to be a teenage martyr a soundtrack album being recorded by hipster messiah Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, McCandless is being promoted as an inspirational figure for impressionable young people.
I can only hope that they will take this sad tale onboard as a cautionary tale, rather than one to emulate. View all 8 comments. Mar 06, Matthew rated it liked it Shelves: non-fiction , own. Not marking my spoilers as I believe most people know the basic story. If you don't, proceed with caution! I liked this book okay - it is probably my least favorite Krakauer book, but I think that was because my feelings about it were tainted by the main character.
McCandless was soooooo frustrating. He refused help and destroyed his resources with the belief that that was what was required to survive on your own. Be prepared! Learn basic skills! Accept free help! All of those things would have still allowed him to be a vagabond and he might still be alive today.
Also frustrating is the fact that I hear some people idolizing McCandless. They want to be like him, they think he approached getting away from it all in a wise fashion, they martyr him maybe not realizing that it was his own ineptitude that caused his death?? Please read this as a cautionary tale, not as a guidebook for escaping life and responsibilities. If you do, I am sorry to say, you may meet the same fate.
View all 28 comments. Nov 22, Jason Koivu rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction. On the outside looking in, this seems like another case of arrogant human vs unassuming nature. Nature usually wins that fight. It did here and in a most tragic way.
And yet, in Into the Wild Jon Krakauer does an excellent job of muddying up the waters, so that they flow with the natural fluidity of life itself. Was this kid so very unprepared? Was this a foolhardy and unnecessary death easily avoided with a few, slight precautions? Life is seldom black and white, cut and dry.
Krakauer reminds u On the outside looking in, this seems like another case of arrogant human vs unassuming nature. Krakauer reminds us of that, while telling a riveting story. View all 4 comments. I then turned out my light, rolled over, and went to sleep. I was born in — five years after Chris McCandless died.
The note I used to start the review was found on the bus his body was in. He weighed about four stone. Jon Krakauer wrote an article about the 24 year old boy who died in Alaska, but his obsession held him longer, long enough to write this beautiful, horrible book.
I am glad that he did. This book transcends being about McCandless. We are very unalike. My brother sees the world in black and white. Chances are my brother said it only to get a rise out of me, though I think he partly believed what he was saying. McCandless, as far as he was aware, as far as many people are aware, went into Alaska with almost no equipment, no food, and little idea on what he was going to do.
He survived days. What does that even mean? What I mean to say, I think, is that they were failed by literature. Literature is dangerous.
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