Into the Wild (Sean Penn - 2007)

Plot

Into the Wild recounts the life of Christopher McCandless (12 February 1968 – 18 August 1992), an actual student-athlete at Emory University, as told by his sympathetic sister. In response to his materialistic, manipulative, and domineering parents, McCandless destroys all of his credit cards and identification documents, donates $24,000 (nearly his entire savings) to Oxfam, and sets out on a crosscountry drive in his well-used but reliable economy car towards his ultimate goal: to live alone and off the land in Alaska. Along the way, leaves his automobile in the course of a flash flood, to hitchhike his way there after burning the remainder of his dwindling cash supply. Taking an unintentionally circuitous route, he encounters many unconventional individuals on his itinerary as he purposefully trudges onward to his final destination, arriving in the wilds of Alaska nearly two years after his initial departure. He starts living in a "Magic Bus" serving as a shelter for people walking in the area (though in the film there is nobody else). Resourceful, McCandless finds joy in living off the land, and begins to write a book of his adventures. Unfortunately, as the spring thaw arrives, he is cut off from civilization by waterways. As his food supply lessens, he resorts to eating plants. Although he consults a brought-along book about the edibility of plants, he confuses an edible and a poisonous kind, which weakens him. While he survives the poison, he is unable to find animals to hunt and he slowly starves to death. As he dies, he continues to write, detailing his painful demise as a dramatic denouement to his autobiography.

• During his amazing journey he claimed : '' You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. ''
• But a couple hours before his tragic death into the 'Magic Bus', somewhere in Alaska, he wrote in his notebook : ''Happiness is real when shared.''