On his journey he meets different characters and we see the growth of his character, we see this in the difference in the kind of relations his has with the people he meets. Alexander is an extremist and whereas Christopher is a moderate person who fulfils the duties of living in the society. As the story proceeds we see Alexander grow over Christopher. In the beginning of his journey he abandons his identity and takes the a new name Alexander Supertramp. Emile Hirsch starred in the 2007 film Into the Wild. The story of his quest for living in the wild is narrated in four chapters “my own birth”, “adolescence”, “manhood”, “family” and “my own birth”. He then finally abandons his car and burns whatever little money he had and begins his journey. And when he leaves behind his life, he does not do it the moderate way, he donates his entire education fund to Oxfam, destroys his identity cards and leaves the city life in his car it seems as if he never wishes or plans to return to this life. His great Alaskan adventure was his quest for true living. We see how he detests the material life and this again, could be because of his troubled relations between his parents who, as his sister says “were blinded by money”.Ĭhris on the other hand believes that money and material things were objects that make people cautious and take them away from true living. We see that he and his sister had a troubled childhood and often had to witness domestic violence at the hands of his father subjected on his mother. As she narrates she tells that Chris’s breaking away was inevitable and as we are told his story we see and we understand the reason why she calls his break-away as inevitable. Much of the insights that come about Chris’s character are through the narration of the story by Chris’s sister. So he leaves behind his urban life and all the ties and relations to begin his journey into the wild. We are told that he had grades good enough to make it to Haward Law School but he believes, as he says, “career is a 20 th century invention” and he does not want one. He was not, as he says, “A destitute” but chose that life. He was not one of those kids who fail to prove their worth in society’s standards or measures and then give up on society’s way of life. The film begins with the scene where we see Christopher already on his Alaskan Adventure and he finds the abandoned bus in which he spent his final months and the rest of the film alternates between two storylines, one that shows him experiencing his great Alaskan adventure and the other deals with what lead him and how he reached to live this adventure.Ĭhris or Christopher Johnson McCandless was a young college graduate who had his entire career, education and life ahead of him but he chose to leave all that behind to live in an Alaskan adventure.

Chris McCandless, in front of the famed “magic bus.” I would approach this story of Christopher McCandless as a creation of Sean Penn and not that of a person who was once alive. Therefore, it could be seen as a piece that is a fiction based non-fiction. The story is created merely based on the entries and notes that he made on this adventure. Although, the film is based on a non-fiction book but it tells a detailed story of the man who did not live to tell his story to the world. It is a story of a character named Christopher McCandless and his life revolving around his great Alaskan Adventure. This non-fiction film by Sean Penn is based on the book by John Krakauer that goes by the same name “Into The Wild”. It is the story of a man who leaves behind the comforts of the urban life and takes up an existence in the wild. ‘Into The Wild’ is a film that released in 2007 and was directed by Sean Penn.

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