Alma salvaje
Wild
Director:
Jean-Marc ValléeGuión:
Nick HornbyCámara:
Yves BélangerReparto:
Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Kevin Rankin, W. Earl Brown, Mo McRae, Ted Rooney, Cheryl Strayed (más)Streaming (4)
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Después de años de un comportamiento irresponsable, una adicción a la heroína y la destrucción de su matrimonio, Strayed toma una decisión precipitada. Obsesionada por los recuerdos de su madre, Bobbi, y carente de toda experiencia, emprende - totalmente sola - una caminata de más de mil millas por el Sendero de las Cimas del Pacífico. Alma salvaje revela con enorme fuerza sus terrores y sus placeres a medida que sigue adelante en una odisea que la enloquece, la fortalece y acaba curándola. (20th Century Fox España)
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El reciente hermano The Wayde Emilio Estévez, en el que el padre hace una caminata en busca de un hijo muerto, me impresionó más. Tuvo una interacción más interesante entre los personajes que el protagonista conoció en el camino. Alma salvaje contiene algunas escenas buenas, tiene un ambiente agradable al aire libre y Reese es muy bueno como siempre. Pero los flashbacks que representan relaciones con personajes de su pasado no son el motor de la película como pretendían y deberían ser. El flashback de la vida de Aaron Ralston en 127 Horas fue mucho más fuerte en eso, y en la confrontación con la situación que el personaje principal estaba enfrentando en su momento, me absorbió por completo. Aún así, Alma salvaje sigue siendo una buena película, para tres estrellas y media.
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A conventional travel drama about the search for oneself, which Jean-Marc Vallée is able to enrich with interesting flashbacks, most of the time. They develop several themed storylines that focus on the magnetic Reese Witherspoon. Her transformation from a frightened novice who isn’t able to lift her own backpack to queen of the PCT is so impressively experienced, so much so that one also forgets balancing on the edge of kitsch, a bit of amateurish symbolism and a stretched last third. Not that Hornby's "book-like" screenplay helps with its pronounced durability and depth, but as a pleasant spiritual trip through a beautiful landscape for one evening, it's absolutely okay.
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Though Wild is very well rhythmised in twenty-minute segments, due to the logic of the plot new revelations cannot reverse the course of events, but only contribute to our understanding of the protagonist. Especially in the final third, we could criticise the film for the fact that it suffers from a low level of action and structural repetitiveness. However, if we don’t judge it by the standards of mannishly linear “action” films, the narrative cyclicity with the returning of motifs as fixed ideas (instead of development of those motifs) is conversely what makes Wild a unique film that is both outwardly and inwardly feminist. 80%
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Beautiful scenery, a charismatic girl, Simon and Garfunkel, a meaningful story and emotions. If I were to recall something similar in type and genre, the last time I enjoyed a film like this was Penn's Into the Wild eleven years ago. The protagonist of that one had different motivations, but both have something in common: they are searching for themselves in a beautiful, purifying landscape. At the beginning I wasn't really hooked, the sudden cuts were a bit confusing, but as time went on I got incredibly engaged. I understood the main character, I envied her determination to do something with herself, and I'm so glad that Vallée didn't slip into cheap tropes, that some scenes that could have slid into a fatal ending were resolved in a different way and the clichés were avoided. And the way Vallée works with flashbacks is a masterpiece, too. And especially Reese – she put everything into the role, she even produced it herself; girl I admire you! Reese is just a God-given talent, like Vallée, I have yet to see a bad or even just mediocre film from him.
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Reese Witherspoon delivered quite a respectable performance in this movie. Already in the beginning, she showed how easily a chipped nail can be torn from a toe which went through a two-hundred-kilometer hike on a trek across the Rocky Mountains with an elevation gain of least thirty kilometers. After a moment, however, a totally typical story began to unravel. It shows us Reese who is going through purgatory, at first without showing the reason, and we’ll only get to know the reason gradually, from the glimpses of her memories. It took me some time to attune to her, and about a halfway into the movie everything was clear to me. And from that moment I started to really enjoy the movie. Too bad that the ending was too open. I like open endings in movies like this but in this case it kind of faded away into nothing. The Way (2010) is much better in this respect. Anyhow, Reese’s performance was really great – I’d say even greater that the elevation gain she had to tackle during the movie.
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