Synopsis
Based on the inspirational best seller.
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Reese Witherspoon Laura Dern Keene McRae Gaby Hoffmann Michiel Huisman Kevin Rankin Cliff DeYoung Thomas Sadoski Randy Schulman W. Earl Brown Brian Van Holt Mo McRae Will Cuddy Leigh Parker Nick Eversman Ray Buckley Cathryn de Prume Kurt Conroyd Ted de Chatelet Jeffree Newman Lorraine Bahr Jerry Carlton Kevin-Michael Moore Debra Pralle Gray Eubank Anne Sorce Charles Baker J.D. Evermore Beth Hall Show All…
Doug Jackson Dan O'Connell Ai-Ling Lee Coll Anderson Andy Nelson John T. Cucci Mildred Iatrou Bob Kellough Scott Curtis Susan Dawes Tim Gomillion
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she was literally hiking for three months through the extreme wilderness encountering wild animals and men were STILL the scariest thing about this movie
"But you know, problems don't stay problems.
They turn into something else."
No time to write an extensive review tonight:/ but...
Reasons this is a very good movie:
- It's a great example of a micro-level character study
- Especially one dealing with ideas of decision making and grief
- The "hobo life" scene (lol)
- It quotes Flannery O'Connor
- The strength of the parent-child relationship aspect
- Fantastic editing
- Soundtrack includes Box of Rain & Ripple by the Grateful Dead
- And last, but not least, Witherspoon's performance
"AND I SAY, HEEY YEEAAH YEEEAAAH,
HEEY YEEAAH YEEEAAAH
I SAID HEEEY, WHAT'S GOINN ONNN!?"
Reese Witherspoon wears no makeup in Wild, the film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's autobiographical book. The shiny-faced pixie of Sweet Home Alabama sheds her concealer and Upper East Side wardrobe, revealing the raw human underneath.
After years of bad choices, Cheryl decides to hike a thousand miles across the Pacific Crest Trail by herself as a means of breaking the pattern of sleazy adventures that comprise her daily life.
As the terrain becomes increasingly threatening, she reflects upon the events that led to her self-imposed exile. The images are discordant; mother dancing loosely in the kitchen; a hand unzipping a dress; a man's long-suffering glare over the steering wheel. Wisps of memory soon congeal to form a portrait of adolescent…
even better in its second viewing, gave me chills, made me cry, made me laugh. thank you for this movie.
i feel like im on another plane of existence when i watch this film. it’s almost euphoric
I’m a sucker for character studies and non-linear narratives.
Reese Witherspoon is raw and vulnerable the entire time, this is her best/most understated performance.
Jean-Marc Vallée’s directing and editing is nothing short of sublime. We weave between past and present seamlessly - patiently unravelling the story. The fragmented imagery during the traumatic memories felt very real to me, especially the weird stuff you tend to remember, like what painting was hanging in the doctor’s office.
Some of the imagery is very blunt - Witherspoon’s character Cheryl carries a huge heavy bag on her back that she can barely lift. A bag she later finds out is carrying many things she doesn’t need. DO YOU GET IT? But I’m a sucker…
this was so precious and inspiring and beautiful ??? brb gonna go hike away all my problems
I have always envied people who explore spiritual questions. I appreciate art that goes deep and uncovers the essential, but I rarely find myself lost in spiritual thought in daily life. If we don’t explore ourselves for too long, we hit a brick wall and face an identity crisis. This serves as the starting point for the film’s main character.
“Wild” explores grief honestly. The depiction of the mother figure feels a bit romanticized, reflecting cherished memories. I believe that softening memories is essential for mental health.
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”…
Wild is a bit slow, but Reese Witherspoon's performance is worth the price of admission alone.
tiff 2014 film #16
My guess is that Wild will never get the audience it deserves. Why? Because we've already seen Into the Wild and 127 hours and we might be tired of films about young folk who have the luxury of going on high risk adventures and end up paying the price. It is why I didn't pick Wild as a film I wanted to see at TIFF. I can't say for sure what changed my mind*, but I'm glad I did, because Wild is a much better film than those other two as far as I am concerned. Much better.
Yes, it involves a long hike. But the way Jean-Marc Vallée tells Cheryl Strayed's story is original and…