Review of Wild (2014) by Bias — 13 Sep 2016

Apparently this was based off a true story. While watching it I was confused about why in the world did having a Mom die turn her into a crackhead. Obviously having a close loved one die is absolutely terrible, but the connection wasn't there, resulting in me feeling very little empathy for her horrible treatment towards her husband, or her -what seemed like-over-the-top drug problems. Perhaps reading the original story of this woman's life would have made it much clearer, but the film sure didn't.

If I put the narrative in more chronological order it would look like this: Reese was a goody-two-shoes kid in what became a single mother household. Her mom was great. Her mom died from cancer, slowly and painfully. Reese got married. Reese lost it and started messing around with other people and using hard-core drugs. They got divorced because she was a horrible wife to the husband. There's another person in her life after this, some ambiguous lover/older sister type, and its confusing. She goes on a long hiking trip to find herself. Near the end, she finds the Mother of Dragon's ex-boyfriend in Oregon of all places, does him, and writes her ex-husband's name in the sand. Then she says she's over him now. Poor guy.

Anyway, I do kinda want to hike the PCT now though.