Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Into the Wild’: It’s Not Man or Nature, but Man and Nature

A lesson learned too late by an indulged young man who goes off track

R  | 2h 28min | Drama, Adventure | 2007

“Into the Wild” (2007) is one of the most moving cinematic critiques of selfish individualism and haughty naturalism, when practiced at the expense of humanism. Its camera turns outward to magnify the beauty of the natural world, and then inward to salute the equally beautiful world within us. It makes us reflect and realize how tragic it is to find beauty in only one of these worlds.