![]() ![]() First came Julia Roberts’s globetrotting turn as Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat Pray Love, then Mia Wasikowska’s journey across the Australian desert as Robyn Davidson in Tracks. Wild is the latest in a series of notable solo filmic voyages by women seeking self-discovery, all drawn from best-selling memoirs. It is an act of both pilgrimage and exorcism. ‘I’m going to walk myself back to the woman my mother thought I was,’ she says. The journey is an effort to reverse the trajectory she has been on. ![]() ![]() She decides to undertake a thousand-mile hike through California and Oregon, along the Pacific Crest Trail. The plot is fairly simple: in the wake of her mother’s death, Cheryl Strayed recognises that her self-destructiveness has led first to the dissolution of her marriage, and later to promiscuity and drug-use. In Jean-Marc Vallée’s new film, Wild, Witherspoon’s ‘can-do’ affect is transformed into pure grit. In Legally Blonde that attitude was used for comic effect in Election it was satiric. ![]() In the case of Reese Witherspoon, her performances have always been laced with a ‘can-do’ attitude. Certain actors inevitably convey a particular demeanour, no matter the role they’re playing. ![]()
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