![]() On the trail, Cheryl faces hunger, thirst, injury, men who might be rapists or murderers, and the inevitable rattlesnake. But the principal obstructions are frequent flashbacks, which reveal the traumas Cheryl seeks to walk away from. She's making painfully slow progress on her California-to-Oregon quest, in part because she's carrying far too much gear. The fragmented narrative begins on the trail, where Witherspoon's Cheryl is having a disagreement with a long-distance hiker's most important companions: her boots. ![]() But the movie, unlike a genuine nightmare, usually telegraphs its next disturbing vision. (The former Cheryl Nyland's adopted surname is her pithiest literary accomplishment.) Versatile Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee, who directed Dallas Buyers Club, treats the tale as something of a cinematic fever dream. Wild was adapted by About a Boy man Nick Hornby from Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, the best-selling 2012 memoir by Cheryl Strayed. ![]() As an excursion into the untamed stream of human consciousness, however, the movie is less bold. With a backstory that includes heroin use and zipless you-know-whats, Wild is a daring foray for its star and producer, the usually prim Reese Witherspoon. ![]() Reese Witherspoon plays Cheryl Strayed in Wild. ![]()
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