Happiness is only real when Shared - Christopher Johnson McCandless

I "met" Sean Penn at The Red Thin Line. After watching his majestic performance as 1st Sgt. Welsh, I began to follow up his "presentation" in film industry. He's one of those great film artists, who started as raw genuine actors, use all the opportunities given and then continue to express the combination of meticulous scrutinizer sensibility and sincerity in arts, into film. Sean Penn's adaptation of Into The Wild has become one of my favorite films.

Information about the film can be read here.
Besides the desire to see Sean Penn's oeuvre, there are couples reasons that made me chose this film to fill up my hours on this Friday's night. Firstly, I'm a big fan of Eddie Vedder (really turning into Country's fan!). His single Guaranteed as the film's OST has grabbed couples of prestigious awards, including Best Original Song at Golden Globes recently. Secondly, Into The Wild is well-known with a lot of powerful and beautiful wise quotes. As far as i can see, more than 75% of the lines in the film touch me deeply and really really make me think especially the final chapter (you'll know bout chapter if you see the film), when Alex/Chris meets Ron (stunningly acted by Hal Holbrook).

On top of all the reasons above, I actually want to see Into The Wild because, seriously, there was one point in my life, it came across my mind to do exactly the same thing as Chris does. Go into the wild. Partially because I love wilderness. And there is a line that could be drawn to differentiate two audience's perceptions about the movie;

• This guy is crazy by going TOO FAR away as a response of vengeance.
• or He's doing the thing that he wants to do. He has all rights for his decisions.
  

This is the picture of himself taken by the real Christopher Johnson McCandless or Alex Supertramp, which sums up the film very well.


Watch the movie and read this trivia.
This is a movie that worth seeing.