Man Vs Wilderness in Into The Wild

“Into the Wild” is a film that was directed by Sean Penn and it was adapted from a book with a similar topic by Jon Krauker. This film is a biographical drama that was intended for an English-speaking audience that is attracted to social justice themes, adventure, as well as deep ecology. The film presents a gratifying experience of Chris McCandless, who is a self-depicted “aesthetic voyager” who wasted away to death during the 1992 summer in Alaska (Krakauer, 1997). “Into the Wild” details the manner in which Chris McCandless rejected materialism and explored both the internal as well as external of the wilds. Sean Penn’s treatment of the character Chris McCandless is sympathetic and overlooks a number of subsequent discoveries in relation to what causes his death. According to Krakauer (1999), the absence of such detail from the book as well as the film is a likely indication that Chris McCandless was suffering from mental illness. The film director, Sean Penn takes his viewers on a perfect aesthetic voyage into the “visionary seeker’s” heart.

The love that Chris McCandless possessed for the wild places is apparent in the film. Nevertheless, it is less obvious that he has a true love for the human spirit. Penn presents McCandless as an explorer who is both sensitive as well as susceptible. The film commences with Chris McCandless being dropped off near Alaska’s Stampede Trail. The shot is an illustration of his total lack of preparation for whatsoever serious travel back into the country. Chris McCandless hikes across the spring landscape to the bus which turns out to be the scene of his individual triumph, self-discovery, misfortune, and ultimately death.

The film “Into the Wild” goes through portals in time-space so as to demonstrate the formative experiences of the early life of Chris McCandless along with parts of his odyssey.  The flashbacks that are provided in the film detail his intricate character together with his excellent academic achievements at Emory. Chris McCandless’s interest in the themes of social justice during college led him from comfort as well as affluence towards a “willful asceticism (Krakauer, 1997). His enthrallment with nature stimulated his motivation for adventure and seclusion.

Indications of Chris McCandless’ travels across the United States are also combined with signs of early childhood traumas. The film looks at the failure of McCandless’ family to comprehend as well as embrace the wildness that was within him.

Penn presents the pangs that drove Chris McCandless on crisscrossing adventures on the Western part of the United States are presented in a manner that is graceful and with a heroic tone all through the film. Chris McCandless’ lonesome death in a dilapidated bus in an Alaskan bush is startling in light of the profound effect on the people he met while on his journey. According to Krakauer (1999), Chris McCandless left a unfathomable impression on those he met, even though he was wandering away from any social entanglements towards the loneliness of wild places”. During his encounters with other colleague seekers, McCandless establishes bonds that last to the present day because of those he influenced. However, something drove McCandless to continue with his exploration, that is, to push his individual boundaries closer towards the edge.

The film explores the main aspects of the journey that came to an end in Bus 142. These elements keep on fascinating audiences who continue to search for reasons to observe the obscurity of McCandless. It is only through the exploration of the intricateness of McCandless that people can be able to find elements about their own journey. This is why the storyline and its implications, in spite of one’s thoughts on the details, endure.

The relationship that exists between man and nature is further explored in the film when Christopher McCandless condemns and rejects what he perceives as American materialism, generally, when he departs from his parents as well as the upper middle-class suburban environment in which they brought him up, and particularly and solidly when he gives all his funds to philanthropy, relinquishes his automotive in the desert, and really blazes his paper money in the desert. He does all these so as to explore as well as survive in the wild. survival in the wild is the focal subject of the film about Christopher McCandless. As it were, the storyline of this film foretells McCandless' own destiny. Into the Wild is all that much the story of a young person, of his vitality, his vision, and the haughtiness that at last kills him. It is difficult to envision anybody other than a male in his 20's who would do and say the things that Christopher McCandless does and says in this film.

Chris McCandless crossed the Western part of the United State, not in quest of the American dream, but instead, in honor of something that is more mysterious. It was the profoundness of this belief that acted as a motivation to his search, ultimately ending in Alaska. His life had been ordinary by many standards but things started changing while he was in college where he turned out to be more lost in thought. This transformation in him was noticeable, as he started deepening his convictions by means of a new lens, as he started emulating Tolstoy’s asceticism as well as moral rigor to a level that initially surprised and alarmed the people who were close to him. Through profoundly personalizing his quest for meaning, Chris McCandless took more than dreams into the Alaskan bush. McCandless had carried many years of turmoil within himself as he nursed doubts regarding materialism, the values that he had been instilled by his family, and the many injustices that exist in the world. Within himself, he carried a profound empathy for the people who lived simply so as to just survive.

Even though Chris McCandless had some fascination about natural history, his journey to Alaska was motivated by other reasons; to  explore the inner soul. This exploration started to spiral out of his control further as he descended into starvation as well as mental illness.

In search of “the raw thump of existence” Chris McCandless started to offer Alex freer rein in charting a path. As Chris McCandless left Atlanta for his odyssey in 1990, “no longer would he respond to Chris McCandless; as he was now a master of his destiny”. The inquiry remains, whose destiny? The books that Chris McCandless brought with him into the bush gave a feeling of solace and undoubtedly some served as his diaries. Confirmation gathered by the Alaska Highway Patrol demonstrates these books were pored over and commented in the edges. It is this composed confirmation that demonstrates the war that was being pursued inside him. An alternate thing found at the transport made clear who had the high ground. Plywood covering one of the transport's windows was engraved with Alex's proclamation.

While concentrating on the parts that attempt to depict contentions that Chris attained to genuine satisfaction just when he imparted it, and that the flight from the materialistic world is not unquestionably unfriendly, the key components of the motion picture that we ought to think are precisely those scenes that demonstrate the socialization happening. Firstly, a definitive choice that Chris takes to withdraw from the materialistic world is spoken to in the scene where he chooses to smolder his remaining money. This scene discovers the ideal model of him rising above from his unique self in essence, and making this new character, for which he later coins with the name "Alexander Supertramp" – the new otherworldly modified being that woke up. Despite the fact that Sean Penn had the limits for adhering to the genuine story he attempted to append visual segments to the landscapes in the motion picture, for which as I would see it are attempting to lead the viewer into an affirmation. During his encounters with other colleague seekers, McCandless establishes bonds that last to the present day because of those he influenced. However, something drove McCandless to continue with his exploration, that is, to push his individual boundaries closer towards the edge.

In conclusion, the theme of man vs. nature is a dominant one in Penn’s film “Into the Wild”. The film comprehensively covers the manner in which Chris McCandless ditched the normal life of man so as to go and explore the wild in Alaska. It is worth noting that McCandless lived with his beliefs upto the end. During the final relic of his life, he appeared to acknowledge that it is the duality which was existing within himself that ultimately led to his passing on and penned his epitaph on a page that was torn from the 1989 autobiography of Louis L’Amour’s posthumous; Education of a traveling Man. Nevertheless, Sean Penn’s treatment of the character Chris McCandless is sympathetic and overlooks a number of subsequent discoveries in relation to what causes his death.