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| Into the Wild |
I believe the opening scene is among one of the most
important scenes portrayed from the film Into the Wild directed
by Sean Penn. 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 heard him,
I heard 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. From
the opening scene and title I was able to infer that the man in the dream was
the main character and that he was 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 from the man sleeping next to her.
He said “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. Opinions of important scenes in a movie vary from person
to person and I am curious to find out what others consider important scenes in
the movie I viewed.
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