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Any Other Movies About Someone Shunning Society, Going Into the Wild?

posted 9 years ago by onefortheguns
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I'm wanting to know if there's a movie about someone who sees modern day American society unfulfilling, and yearns to prove himself a "real man" and thinks going into the woods with nothing except a hatchet or knife to know if he can live as a sort of hermit in the wild. It's close enough to this story to qualify as its genre, but I can't think there's any other movies like this one!

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[–] KazKazui 8 years ago

Maybe it's not exactly what you're searching for, but I remember a film I watched years ago, it's called "Mosquito Coast" with Harrison Ford. Because some guy thinks that the USA will go down he goes into the jungle with his family where at some point he tries to build a village and produce ice there? Sorry, I don't remember it very well.

[–] jkholman 8 years ago

Never Cry Wolf - 1983.
Charles Martin Smith plays a scientist researching wolves in the Canadian wilderness. While his plan is have an extended stay in the wild to do his work, he comes close to not returning to civilization. A very good film in itself and a good companion to Into the Wild.

[–] fleurfairy 8 years ago

Hollywood has yet to make a really good solid rendition of The Call of the Wild. I do love "White Fang" with Ethan Hawke.

[–] Zombie55 8 years ago

Though I haven't seen this movie yet, I heard there's this obscure French/Canadian movie called "Le Torrent" (2012) that sort of treads similar grounds.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2458606/?ref_=nv_sr_2

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[–] whoanelly (1592) 5 years ago

There’s a film from the 70s about the youngest person to sail around the world. It’s called The Dove, about the Journey of Robin Lee Graham who spent five years circumnavigating the globe, beginng at age 16.

Unlike McCandless, he didn’t turn his back on his family, poach, steal, or break other laws.

[–] wanton87 (934) 5 years ago

Yes. The Maine Hermit, Christopher Knight. True story. I read the book, and found it quite enjoyable. He lived solo for 27 years, until he was arrested for pilfering cabins.

He had the right idea, but unfortunately, the wrong execution of plans.

By the way, the title of the book, for those that are interested is: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit.