WILD
This movie is a reminder of the bond between a mom and her daughter and in this case, the sad reality involved in not knowing what you have until it's lost. I loved it, and recommend the great performances. Based on the true story of Cheryl Strayed.
I thought I would cry for Reese, since this true story was one of a mentally, self-tortured young woman who, after losing her mom, took on a 1,100 mile challenge to hike across the Pacific Crest Trail in a quest to answer burning self-depricating issues, including her obsession with drugs and sex. In the end, she comes to true realizations about her life, but nothing phony or presumptuous.
Through flashbacks in the movie, her mom, Bobbie Strayed, who Cheryl says is 'the love of my life", did everything she could with little to no money to keep joy, happiness, a roof overhead and hope in their lives.
Bobbi Strayed sang when they had little money or food to eat. She worked and went back to high school in an attempt to gain knowledge of the world and a brighter future for her children. She had breakfast and dinner on the table everyday and was present with hugs and a smile for Cheryl and younger son. And, she dealt with the pervasive guilt of the physically abusive man she married and father of her children. After one too many nights of being knocked around, she left and took the kids with her in the middle of the night.
Through it all, Cheryl Strayed never really saw her mother for the courageous, unselfish woman she was, who put her children before everything in life. She didn't see the truth until it was too late.
Being a single mother is a most difficult job, especially when money is at issue everyday. To have a mother who kept joy alive in the face of it all, to me, is the story of the strength of a truly ethereal, optimistic woman. And now, her spirit and love of life lives on in the hearts of her children.
Jeannette Barcelos Kravitz
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