Review of Wild (2014) by Stephen P — 13 Feb 2017

Wild is an very emotionally moving film that follows the journey of Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) as she decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all by herself and is forced to overcome any difficulties or obstacles in her way.

Reese Witherspoon carried this movie for the full 2 hours just like she carried her largely oversized backpack across the trail. Her performance was fantastic and stood out in a small cast that also had some interesting supporting characters.

You really like her character the more you watch it and the more you find out about her past the more you begin to understand what she has gone through and just why she is putting herself through all that pain.

Almost every moment in this film that she is both alone or interacting with other people; you feel means something and you get a lot of character development from those scenes which keeps you interested the whole time.

The many flashbacks I found to be some of the most memorable scenes of the movie as they allow you to get an idea of Cheryl's past and her relationship with her mother (played by Laura Dern) and the way that drove her to both some dark and light places throughout her life.

This is largely a story of one persons life and her struggle to overcome the past, the present and what may be to come. - 7.7.