Uploaded February 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Based on the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, INTO THE WILD tells the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man from an upper middle class family who embarked on a personal quest after graduating from college in 1991. But instead of using his trust fund to go backpacking in Europe or do mushrooms for a year, McCandless abandoned his car, cut up his credit cards and ID, donated or burned all his money, and set out on a philosophical, and ultimately fatal journey across the American west and into the Alaskan wilderness. INTO THE WILD is a personal story about one mans journey, but it also speaks to something many in modern society feel — a desire to opt out.
For more ReThink Reviews, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB.
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Based on the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, INTO THE WILD tells the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man from an upper middle class family who embarked on a personal quest after graduating from college in 1991. But instead of using his trust fund to go backpacking in Europe or do mushrooms for a year, McCandless abandoned his car, cut up his credit cards and ID, donated or burned all his money, and set out on a philosophical, and ultimately fatal journey across the American west and into the Alaskan wilderness. INTO THE WILD is a personal story about one mans journey, but it also speaks to something many in modern society feel — a desire to opt out.
For more ReThink Reviews, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB.
(Sorry for the false starts with the post — was having some compression problems)
