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Wild. A Spiritual Journey
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I died for Beauty
(Emily Dickinson. 1830-1886)
Beauty, loneliness, memories and risk are the features the protagonist (Reese Witherspoon) chooses for her spiritual journey. It should allow her to conjure up the ghosts of the past, and also redeem a succession of errors in her most recent life. She will use the quotes of this poet, Emily Dickinson, as an incentive when she feels completely shattered by the events.
Based on the Cheryl Strayed homonymous autobiography, the story tells her journey through the Pacific Crest Trail, a 1700 kilometres track that crosses The United States, ranging from Mexico's border to Canada's border. During her 90 days trip, Cheryl will have to face the hard desert sun, the voracious thirst, endangered animals, the hard cold and some occasional sexual harassment. It is not nature what the director of the film, Jean Marc Vallée has chosen as the primary topic of the story, but the inner journey of this young woman. She has lost the rudder of her life and hopes to recover it by putting herself on the limits of her physical and psychological forces.
Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop -
The Stones a'chase-
Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter
In lonesome place -
(Emily Dickinson)
We will know her story through her memories, relived in flashbacks that she recalls at different times of her journey. The death of her mother, an essential part of her life, and the separation from her partner will drag her to a world of drugs and the most promiscuous sex. Only the isolation and the daily struggle for survival will save her.
With Dallas Buyers Club, Jean Marc Vallée already demonstrated that he is a director able to tell a story that can move and, at the time, gives the audience chance to hold reflection. In Wild, he also achieves to create an allegorical tale of the strength to live and how to get what seems impossible.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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