‘Into the Wild’
After deciding to post film reviews (*personal opinion) as a purpose to my blogging, it never occur to me then that it would be such a challenging thing to write about. And so happen that night, the night I opened this weblog account that I’m going to watch Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild” and certainly the film was quite a wild ride to me.
Not exactly in a rebellious technical sense. Before going further with the details, i have to say it was all well executed. Was it? Unfortunately I wasn’t one of those audience who had the chance to read the book first. But as the first audience to this story called ‘Into the Wild’, I was very pleased how this two and half (2.5) hour length film was able to carry me to each chapter of the story and felt like it was a packed thirty (30) minutes film. Nothing fancy to the technicality instead it was more focus on each seconds of its audience emotions and curiosity. I suppose that would be a good approach to script-write this real life book story.
I certainly can’t ruined the beauty of this film before you all watch it yourselves, but I got to say that its a good film and have to watch it once. As said earlier about its technical approach; but to his credits, Sean Penn certainly make it look different and can’t just be categorized as something as a simple and usual film making. A big props to the man.
Another credit to Sean Penn’s guiding this story is the dramatic and good timing of the climax or the ending. There were some redundancy to the mentioning of our protagonist ambitions and hatred from the very beginning. However, before you’re about to think its much too enough, Penn will drive you to another beautiful adventure before you noticed. He stirs you from one drama to the other painlessly until finally the beautiful ending (which I didn’t expect the ending will be like that since I didn’t read the book: so it was another plus for me).
In the end, everything was acceptable; the redundant ambitions, hatred, fact-of-life, society, love of nature and wilderness, confusions, emotions and the message. All packaged in a beautiful ending that keeps you wondering. As to me, I was wondering of how the hell can I write all those beautifully packed film in a blog? …I can’t! -you just got to experience this film!
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The only major criticism I have is the way he uses a lot of “scribbles” in the film. I didn’t particularly like it. I think the film was worth an oscar. But I guess having Sean Penn nominated as best director is good enough. Anyway, the story is unbelievable, I can’t complain.
Dude, I typed something about the book last night. Haven’t finished editing it. Later I’ll post my say.
-b
I finally posted my review …
I wasn’t paying attention to the scribbles in the film until you post this. I think a man like Sean Penn understood well enough the necessary usage of ‘film elements’. And since I wasn’t bothered, maybe there was some necessity of these scribbles to get the essence of the book. Again, I didn’t read the book and perhaps it was needed for audience like me. Though, it seems like it can bother the reader of the book through your critics.