Wild is the follow-up to Jean-Marc Vallee's Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyer's Club. This time, he may just have directed Reese Witherspoon to her second Oscar nomination.
However, I doubt she stands any chance of winning next year as Rosamund Pike still has that lead in my opinion.
Nevertheless, Witherspoon's performance here was still a very commendable one, portraying Cheryl Strayed - based on her own memoir about her hike through the Pacific Crest Trail, and her journey of rediscovering herself.
The movie mostly had Witherspoon on her own as we got to see how she overcome her own self-doubt and musterted the courage to see herself through.
But woven into that main story were flashbacks of her life and how she got to where she was now. Some of these scenes were a bit too long for my liking, and I wished Vallee would have made the pacing a little bit quicker.
But what Vallee did so well was in his storytelling. I particularly liked the relationship with her mother, played by Laura Dern, who was such an interesting and strong character in her own way. And another great performance also by Dern.
And finally in that one scene towards the end where Vallee made us all feel what Cheryl felt, and the humanity brought into the performance by Witherspoon was simply moving.
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