It would be easy to dismiss Wild by its trailer.  It looks like the latest in a long line of self-help films.  Movies like Eat, Pray, Vomit, which hide behind some faux spiritualism and in reality are just a load of old shite.  Yet, within minutes of this film starting you are quickly stripped of that feeling.  As Reese Witherspoon, portraying Cheryl Strayed, pulls the nail off of her big toe, there was an audible gasp around the cinema I was in.  For the faint of heart this is not.

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