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Reese Witherspoon leaves behind the Legally Blonde actress in this wonderful performance of strength, determination and self-discovery.
The Academy Award nominee brings a film to the spot-light of cinema where a woman faces the wilderness alone, battling past traumas, and proving that any woman can battle the elements without a man by her side.
Adapted from Cheryl Strayed’s book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Wild is a story of a life of heartache and mistakes – about a woman at her worst, choosing the path of recovery by walking a thousand miles across America.
Witherspoon carries the entire film, with the help of fellow Oscar nominee Laura Dern. Witherspoon walks, and walks, and walks, to find the woman her mother wanted her to be. Dern acts as Strayed’s deceased mother, who gives her the strength to carry on when she’s at the point of giving up.
Among the many inspirational quotes this film has to offer, this one really hits you hard. When diagnosed with cancer, Dern says “I never got to be in the driver’s seat of my own life”.
It forces Strayed to take control of her life and herself. She rids her life of responsibility and reality and realises that her life is to be lived for her. Not for anyone else.
Wild takes you on an emotional journey, experiencing Witherspoon’s feelings of loneliness, exhaustion and triumph.
We dare you to not want to embark on your own journey of self-discovery when you see the power that the wilderness has on the human mind and spirit in this cinematic masterpiece.
As Witherspoon says on her journey; “I’m lonelier in my real life than I am out here.”
If that doesn’t persuade you to walk a thousand miles across the country then we don’t know what will.
Take a trip to the cinema to see Wild.
It will make you want to walk. It will make you want to throw your phone away. It will make you want Reese Witherspoon to win that much deserved Oscar.