Into the Wild (2007)

Directed by Sean Penn

I'm very glad that I saw this film. Here is a part that spoke to me from the director's interview on Into the Wild
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_13001.html

"The bottom line is that this thing that I was tracking, in response to his question, was neither objective nor subjective, it was just the wrong paradigm for me. The idea was it's a hunger from deep inside that is touched when somebody - this will that I talk about -- and you can apply it to everything that's happening in the world, you can apply it - let's forget about getting into global politics, just the movies.
You know, I'm so dissatisfied. It’s like good movie, bad movie, I almost don't care. I just want to feel that the person who made it did and then that'll tell me enough. I'll get exhilarated about life better from seeing that movie on that basis alone. [...] And that doesn't mean that I'm going to tell anybody to like that I did it or not like that I did it, or anything else, or that it works or doesn't work every time somebody does do it. I'm proud of the whole thing. It's the way that I wanted to tell it, but for sure we've got to find out what's on the other side of these walls, and that's what he did."

I thought the urge to make something real and the "rawness" captured in this film were beautiful and also essential to live as an artist. I hope I'll be able to capture the rawness and presence of human beings in my work.