Into the Wild is a 2007 American drama film directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of 1996 non-fiction book of the same name byJon Krakauer based on Christopher McCandless and his travels across North America. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless withWilliam Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden as his parents. The film premiered during the Rome Film Fest and later opened outside ofFairbanks, Alaska in September 2007.[4]
In chapter 5, we begin to see the origin of the fuels that seem to drive Chris' adventurism to a very perilous extreme. He grows to resent the materialistic ways of his parents and the lie they've grown all too comfortable with embracing. His inability to forgive and mend their past relationships only serve to push him further and further away from them.
Ephesians 6:4 (Amplified Bible)
4Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.
In chapter 15, Mr. Franz shares with Chris the power of forgiveness, reconciliation and how God delights in such. Chris still hardened from past relations with his father still is searching for fulfillment in experiences. Mr. Franz has already realized something that Chris has yet to learn and unfortunately will do so at a great price.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (The Message)
16-18Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We're free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.
In chapter 17, Chris finally learns where true happiness and fulfillment comes from. Unfortunately this lesson comes too late and a with great price. The irony in the ending is that Chris achieves his goal, dies within it and finds it wanting.
Galatians 5:3-5 (The Message)
4-6I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
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