Into the Wild (Sean Penn - 2007) is the true story of Christopher McCandless, aka Alex Supertramp, who obtained his degree in college and sent her twenty-four thousand U.S. dollars of savings association of Charity, all spring and part hitchhiked from Virginia to Alaska. Find refuge in a bus abandoned in the middle of the icy north where he lived as a hermit for a few weeks, driving, reading and writing in his diary. The "magic bus" is a hub for the film's narrative structure, alternating sequences in Alaska a long flashback that tells the journey across America, in a sort of path formation and maturation, spread over several chapters or meetings with various characters. Sean Penn confirmed his great directorial skills and the ability to deal with striking landscapes (as they promise). However here is to get carried away a bit 'too often, going urgently looking framing effect and the breathtaking, so unbalanced. Overdo it and then with the use of slow motion in the long run it loses its emotional power and offers even more than one occasion, a terrible split-screen, in which a film of this type is a punch in the stomach. Even his relationship with history is rather inconsistent, ranging from the excitement of the events of the protagonist (with implicit critique of contemporary society) and a look sometimes too detached that send the audience into confusion. The number of inserts in which Christopher's childhood is told by her sister's voice over sounds like a grotesque attempt at psychological analysis, in search of an explanation or justification of a man's instinct to flee to freedom. Too bad, because he had all the elements for a great road movie, but ultimately there are only good songs from Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam leader) in the soundtrack. Mower David Lynch is on another planet.
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