Wild - 2014

"How wild it was to let it be" - Cheryl Strayed

This is the movie where you'll find the director Jean Marc Vallé and the actress Reese Witherspoon (playing the leading role) working at the peak of their respective powers. And to be honest, i always thought that Reese was just a random actress, nothing special. But in this movie she was breathtaking. Delivering a deep and insightful emotions to me and to the audience.

The movie had a very simple plot and a very simple presentation, but somehow a very complicated characters (Cheryl, Bobbi, Paul ...). And the soundtracks was right on target with what was happening in each scene. With enough flashbacks and perils to keep it interesting.

Trailer

Initial release: December 5, 2014 (USA)

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Box office: 52.5 million USD

Initial DVD release: March 31, 2015 (USA)

Adapted from: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dem, Thomas Sadoski ...

Everyone loves a story about a woman surviving. Women are often shown to be fragile... And this is where Cheryl Strayed shows us how strong a woman could be (ps: the movie is not about a political statement of feminism), while she's struggling with her regrets, healing and "forgiving herself" trying to learning how to live with the losses (what she can't control). So after her mother's death from cancer and after years of reckless and destructive behaviour, such as cheating on her husband many time and taking heroïn. She decides to hike more than a thousand mile of the pacific crest trail, alone. And that's all that she needed i guess: walk, climb mountains, ride a horse... You know, that staff. She knew that the crazy and unplanned things are always the best way to forgive ourselves in the face of a mountain of a personal weakness and damnation.

Cheryl: "There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another, what leads to what, what destroys what or causes what to flourish or die or take another course. What if I forgave myself? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if I'd wanted to sleep with every single one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if all those things I did were the things that got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?"