Nature In Into The Wild

The film Into The Wild directed by Sean Penn consists in the journey of a young guy called Chris McCandless, a 23 year old who shows us from his point of view just how manipulated society is, based on silly rules and behaviours where studying, getting a job and material things are a priority. Therefore Chris decided to escape from this society to live into the wild, surrounded by nature as is the place where he feels comfortable. Undoubtedly one of the main aims of the film is the contrast between society and nature. To achieve this, the director uses different techniques such as the setting the more important one, lighting, camera angles, sound effects among others, which also help us to the understanding of the characters linking us to their feelings and behaviours.

The most striking theme of the film is undoubtedly the contrast between society and nature since the director uses this to show us the differences of how horrible and unfair society could be, while how beauty is nature. The society showed by Chri's point of view is based on unfairness, manipulation, where people are not concerned about each other, and material things is a priority. Through the example of Chris' father, when this one wanted to buy him a new car despite the fact that he already had one, demonstrate us that people care more about material things, as Chri's father were concerned
On this one, Chris tells us that he does agree that society manipulates us forcing us to study, get a job, and get married. When Chirs is talking bout his parent, he said that the graduation is just a way to manipulate people dressing a tie, carrying books, and following ridiculous behaviours. Moreover, Chris also called his parents as “dumbs kids” for the fact that they were going to get married, which tell us that he does not agree with the marriage as it is another way of