Brief Screening Report

Brief screening report

Into The Wild

I believe the opening scene is among one of the most important scenes portrayed from the film Into the Wild. It starts the movie off in what is presumed, a couple seconds later, to be the dream of a mother. In the dream, a dark blurry young man is saying “mom” repeatedly in a dark room until suddenly the scene changes to a dark room when the woman wakes up in terror crying. This dream must have been reoccurring because the woman says “I wasn't dreaming this time, Walt”, Walt being her husband and the father.  She continued to shake and cry saying “I heard him, I head him, I head Chris”. This is when I realized the young man in the starting was most likely the main character. This scene is important for the character because in future scenes you see he is alive and the film is ultimately about his life. This beginning told me that either the man in the film is lost in the wilderness somewhere… or dead. The mother continues to say she heard him and wasn't imagining it. The last piece of dialogue in that scene was “I know Billie”, this is when I realized the mothers name is Billy.  You can tell that this scene is also important by the way it abruptly starts the film and then all of a sudden switches over to a scene with the main character.