Wildlike

The beautiful doe-eyed Ella Purnell gives a good convincing performance. Running away from bad circumstances, she follows a middle aged hiker across the Alaskan wilderness. Beautiful scenery, excellent production quality & music. The pacing is very slow but it's well crafted. Bruce Greenwood was quite good. From their meeting the story was interesting & engaging. It was satisfying to see them get attached. The ending was a bit understated.

Wildlike goes to show: you either have someone, or you don't. It's affectingly illustrative of how a certain amount of pain forces one to be alone in the world--and God made Alaska for being alone.

I think this would have been more interesting if the movie was from the perspective of Greenwood's character rather than Purnell's. We know too much from the beginning, and thereafter the narrative travels an unsurprising path, even if nicely shot.

Can you recommend me a cool movie with no action but not too slow? When you check the clock, it is almost over.

Understated drama is at its best depicting the evolving relationship between Greenwood and Purnell, which develops at an angle to the stereotypical odd-couple tropes, making these characters feel very real and believable. Less successful is the half-hearted man-hunt orchestrated by Geraghty, and the establishing scenes set up questions and themes the screenplay is a little too timid to address, but overall subtle, rewarding and quietly moving, with a nice, rare leading showcase for Greenwood.

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