Into the Wild has an IQ Score of 155/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Sean Penn's 2007 adaptation of Jon Krakauer's nonfiction account of Christopher McCandless, who walked into the Alaskan bush in 1992 and starved. Emile Hirsch carries the film through chapter-card structure named after McCandless's journals.
Eddie Vedder's score and Hal Holbrook's late-act monologue do as much narrative work as the screenplay.
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