I cried when I watched this movie when I was a young man and was single living on my own terms; now I cried watching it again having a teenage son and I'm his dad's age. Wildly different perspectives.

Everyone, especially young people, should watch this film. Now more than ever we are living in greater isolation, fooled by an illusion of having friends and family, with barely nurtured relationships that can crack and crumble at any time. We are not meant to be alone, to burn bridges, to shun society and believe we can thrive. Don’t look at outliers and think that’s the norm. Outside of extreme circumstances, most people need to remember to be willing to forgive, forget, mend relationships, and believe in love and fraternity. Brilliant film. Kudos to Penn, Hirsch, Vedder and everyone else involved.

Happiness is only real when shared..... Chris learned the lesson too late but I learned his lesson and it genuinely changed my life

Emile Hirsch deserved an Oscar for this film.

One thing I love about the movie, is that until this scene, there are no huge gigantic helicopter shots of the vastness of nature. Its all about Chris. It's only after he dies that we see how big his world was.

This is one of those scenes that sticks with you for years. I saw this for the first time in 2009, in 7th grade. Christopher inspired me to hitchhike across the US. RIP

Fly, Chris, fly in the sky where you belong.

One of my all time favorite movies. Being 100% alone yet living a pretty full life before being forced from society being a combat vet and not fitting in, this movies ending hits pretty hard

RIP Christopher McCandless (February 12, 1968 - August 18, 1992), aged 24 You will be remembered as a legend

i remember watching this my junior year, movie touched me more than anything ever has, especially in school. i remember all the kids acted like they hated the movie, but once it was on everyone shut the fuck up and watched

Not knowing this movie was fiction but based on a true story.. it really hit me hard and cried like a baby but it's a movie everyone should see and be grateful for what we have in what we think we want.

He sought to be free and yet when the end came, he would have been terribly lonely. He clearly battled on with courage but a soul without love can't be at peace, one feels. Sean Penn did a wonderful job of putting together this superb movie of a soul that was just different. The ever-lasting image of him sitting outside the bus, smiling, makes you wonder what all he thought of in the last few months of his courageous journey into the unknown.

This one always gets me no matter how hard I try not to let it.

A friend just sent me this clip discussing powerful scenes in movies, in tears like when I watched the movie.

This movie is based on a true story in which Chris writes in his diary in his last days: "Happiness is only real when it is shared." Chris was probably struggling with severe depression and anxiety and, being an avoidant attachment type, he thought he would find peace by isolating himself. In my university life, he seemed like a cool character and made me love camping, but remember, this is not true. We all need to be loved, to have our emotional and material needs met, to be supported and encouraged. Please, don't isolate yourself. Loneliness is only for God, I hope you will not experience forced loneliness in this life…

Anyone who doesn't consider this film one of the most perfect dramas over the past 20 years, from start to finish, from the time it was released to now, I LEGIT don't even wanna know.

It's still a wonderful movie, truly a wonderful movie. Chris was brilliant in his sense. May god bless him always❤❤

I have a lot of respect for him.let him sleep in the lights.😔

This scene always makes me cry.

And to think, no one would’ve given a damn if he lived…just an ordinary guy walking around the streets that we all walk on

One of the Best Movie of all time.

I hope Christopher finally found peace.

I cant watch this movie alone again i need a Person to watch the movie with me together again

Someone added a very haunting song to this ending,and it was sad but beautiful...... 😢

It seems very scary but two people go to see him someday

Love this movie! I watched it in 2011.

Great movie ...

誰も知らない場所でひそかに亡くなる人は多いけど、その実態は描かれることは少ない。

This is a very good movie... ❤

No place is happier than family!

Yeah this is where Sean Penn messed up bad. In his initial ending, Penn had a scene (without the voiceover) in which Chris runs into his parents arms. He said it was because he believes that the desire of the human spirit to forgive is never stronger than at the end of life. But what wasn’t said by Chris’s sister Carine at the time to Penn (as she didn’t think of it) was that THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT TRUE. And Chris was about truth. Plus it wasn’t about what Penn experienced or merely believed, it’s his job to keep himself out of it. Many people live their entire lives lying to themselves right through to death because they want so much to believe in or hide truth. To believe something doesn’t make it true it imprisons you. And he wanted to find his freedom. Would Chris have suddenly lied to himself at the end? Have romantic notions about his parents? Not likely. At the end he said he had a happy life. But he underlined REAL RELATIONSHIPS. Intentionally NOT underlining FALSE relationships. He would have been thinking of his sister his friends the people he met along the way and IF his parents came to mind he would have said. Because one of the last things he said was that he would PRETEND and go along with their game at his graduation because saying anything wouldn’t have made a difference. He’d been denied by his parents. Flat out denied. Time and again. Even in death where they dumped his ashes in a place he wouldn’t have approved. “It’s not about Chris…” said the mother. This was an extremely self-absorbed materialistic woman it was always about HER feelings never her childrens mental well being the very energy that didn’t live to have a bond with Chris. He was always warning his sister to not be materialistic hell I’ve known people exactly like that it’s their way or the hwy. People can’t see the obvious when all they see is what they want to see or believe, but lying to the self is far worse than anyone ever lying to you. And I can’t see him not knowing that. The voiceover had to go there, it made it clear that he was happy with himself regardless that his parents never were. But the image sure as hell didn’t have to be there. I would only ever encourage relationships where both parties are capable you never want to see one side cheated. You really don’t want to see that.

I saw this at school and at this time I was in a very deep depression for nearly 2 years looking for something simpler and this kinda broke me…

its just our emotions, one day we all be free :]

does anybody know the instrumental that's playing while he is dying?

What's the soundtrack at the end called?

Was all this needed. Is it worth it...? Venturing into the Wild is not one should do just cause one can. Be thankful for the life you have.

Magic Bus

Its going to be ok

What berries did he eat to have the FDA ban them?

He ona sick one

He died utterly alone.

Didn't he know about emergency fire signals? Even if he wants nothing to do with maps and picks an area with as little food sources as he did, c'mon. You can't get any more primitive than flipping fire signals. Cavemen made fires. Or is he also against the use of fire because it's kind of the first technology kind of thing we had? It makes me angry, as a fellow person who hates many parts of modern society. He didn't do this right. He died a couple miles from a highway. C'mon.

Fun fact: the guy who drops Chris off at Alaska Jim galleon played himself it was brief tho

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My opinion on this movie varies from epic tale of a man’s journey towards freedom to glorified suicide . Not sure

😢

It’s sad and all but at the same time it’s a little frustrating and aggravating… you make such a reckless decision when you are no where near prepared and then treated like some sort of heroic martyr after death. Did he really think he’d be okay ?

Hunt fish grow food. This dude had no plan.

Was the bus actually that close to a river? which one? The Tek?

Why couldnt he go to new mexico or appalachian mountains? Why alaska? Why choose that kind of remoteness?

I wonder how did the bus get to that trail

He had diahrea😢h

How do they know the exact day he died?

I actually didn’t like this movie. The whole time I was reading this book in my English class, I was thinking of how dumb this guy is. He had a normal life but threw it away because he wanted to become a hippy. He died freezing alone after eating rotten animal meat, poison berries. He was super unequipped and uneducated on living in the wilderness. I know there are going to be negative comments on but no sane logical person would do what he did.

im going to do this one day

the golden ticket from the chocolate factory 1:32

Missed the poo scence

You don’t know why .. then you’ll never know anything!