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Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature. Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless Emile Hirsch walks away from a loving if dysfunctional family and sends his nearly 25,000-dollar life savings to Oxfam International. Instead of the normal life his parents planned for him, Chris rechristens himself "Alexander Supertramp" and heads west in his beaten-up automobile until it no longer runs, at which point he takes up hitchhiking. The goal on the horizon? Alaska. By hook or by crook -- but without his limited cash, which he symbolically sets aflame -- Chris/Alexander determines to make it to his personal promised land, with stops along the way to experience America and its people.

这是一个真实的故事，《纽约时报》等一线媒体争相报道，在美国主流社会刮起阅读、讨论旋风。
1990年5月12日，一个出身于美国东海岸富裕家庭的年轻人大学毕业了，他对父母说：“我要消失一段时间。”
1990年10月，有人在米德湖国家度假区发现了一辆黄色达特桑，车主却不见踪影。
1992年4月28，一位司机遇到一个搭便车的年轻人，说他要去阿拉斯加。
1992年9月6日，几名猎人在阿拉斯加荒野中一辆废弃的公交车内发现一具尸体，没人知道他是谁，来自何处，为什么在那儿。
是什么让一个名牌大学毕业生放弃大好前途、离开爱他的家人，孤身一人走进荒野？如果金钱、名誉和安稳的生活都不能给我们幸福，究竟什么才是生命中最重要的事？