We get episodes which go back to Chris graduating college, we get him on the road travelling, we get a narration from his sister who is dealing with the effects of his disappearance and until you can get to grips with where these various elements lie in the timeline of Chris's life you are confused as to what is going on. It starts with Chris finding an abandoned bus in Alaska, having trekked across a river and through the cold wilderness, but then it jumps and it jumps and it jumps. I really have just one criticism of "Into the Wild" and that is for the first 15 to 30 minutes it's confusing as hell. Along the way, Chris meets a variety of characters and whilst they help to shape him into the man he became he also had an impact on their lives. Having graduated from Emory University, Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) decides to follow his dreams and turn his back on society, giving away his money and abandoning his possessions to go on a journey of a life time, heading to Alaska where he plans to live a solitary life in the wilderness.
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And what a well rounded movie "Into the Wild" is as whilst we have the positives of the adventure side of things, we also have the negatives not only in what happened to Chris but also how his decision to just disappear off of the face of the earth affected his family. Sadly things didn't turn out well as his adventure ended in tragedy but that adventure and the impact it had on the lives of his family and those he met on his travels provides the foundations for "Into the Wild". Maybe there is something in his story which resonates with a lot of people because he had the balls to go after his dreams and in doing so stick two fingers up at society as he travelled to Alaska and lived a solitary life style in the wilderness.
To be honest I had never heard of Christopher McCandless prior to watching "Into the Wild" but something about his story resonates with me.