“Into the Wild” is a critically acclaimed biography drama focusing on an idealistic young man and his travels across the United States in search of purity of life and liberation from the constraints of modern civilization. Adapted from a book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer, the script was written by Sean Penn, who also directed it. The film stars Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless, a young man who just graduated from college with high honors. Instead of pursuing a career, McCandless decides to donate all of his savings to a charity organization and goes on a cross country drive, with the intention of eventually reaching the Alaskan Stampede Trail. McCandless brings only the barest essentials - minimum of cash and food, a hunting rifle, a handful of books and a diary. His journey is not a straight line, but a long and winding road which sees him losing his car, hitchhiking, traveling on cargo trains, working in the fields, hanging out with hippies and plenty of other unplanned situations. On his travels he meets a lot of new people whose lives he changes and who change his life in return, but ultimately refuses to stay in one place and steadily keeps nearing his idealized, untouched Alaska. His single minded pursuit will take a great tall on him and threaten his very existence as he learns about himself and tries to make peace with the world surrounding him. Will his Alaskan dream prove to be worth pursuing so arduously?
Jason Segel collects puppets
