If you intend to watch Into the Wild you need to know several things concerning the storyline. As soon as he graduated from Emory University in 1992, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a talented student-athlete that had an encouraging future. Nonetheless, he had by then become so enamored of back to nature enthusiast Jack London and of the anarchist Henry David Thoreau that he chose to travel into the wilds by himself to observe a non materialistic way of life.
And so, thumbing his nose at the city conveniences he was accustomed to, this amateur outdoorsman gave away all of his basic possessions donated his entire $24,000 in savings to charity before hitchhiking to Alaska to reside off the wild. However, he forgot to organize accordingly for his ill-advised journey, stupidly failing to take enough basic provisions along for the journy. Because of this, he perished of hunger less four months later, and his body was discovered within walking range of rescue.
At the time of his passing, he ended up being ridiculed by local people fed up with this well known city slicker trend, since if Chris had merely brought a map or a compass or adequate foodstuff with himself, he would easily have found his way to a city. For the closest route was in the area and there were even relief cabins within the region filled with rations and unexpected emergency resources. Basically don't watch Into the Wild for backwoods survival tips.
Thus, it's no shock how the newspapers claimed that "Many Alaskans reacted with rage to his stupidity. You'd need to be a total idiot to perish of starvation here in summer months." However, the late Mr. McCandless' experience would grow to be the topic of the sympathetic best-seller by Jon Krakauer.
And by the time it was adapted in to a film by Sean Penn, Chris had been metamorphosed into a full-blown, folk hero. As opposed to serving up a cautionary story, Penn has opted for a hyper-romanticized journey that has minor likeness to what actually happened. The upshot is thoroughly entertaining Hollywood fare that holds up a dope as an individual deserving of admiration. All in all watch Into the Wild for a fun and unexpected experience.
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