Review – Wild

This movie is very much like the book. So much so, in fact, that I occasionally found myself wondering if I’d be able to follow it if I hadn’t already read Cheryl Strayed’s account of her trek on the Pacific Coast Trail. And like the book, the movie left me wishing the story was more about the journey and less about the pit-stops and flashbacks. Indeed, here the loss is more keenly felt because of the lost chances for spectacular landscape cinematography. There’s a good deal to be found here, but I would have preferred more. Mildly amusing