Reviewing Movies

Based on the book which I read and reviewed previously. One who has walked for a living and gone backpacking finds this gal's naïveté incredible. As usual the movie needs must leave out much detail included in the book or shows it in passing. Telling a story in flashback rather than in narrative fashion seems to be the current vogue. The star of the show is the Pacific Coast Trail and time plus financial constraints limits the capture of the scenery in all its moods particularly what must have been glorious sunrises and sunsets, the stars at night, and moonscapes. In the end this movie is not about the trail but the author's subjective journey. My Welsh friend accuses her of being a whinger. This is the second movie in which I've seen Laura Dorn portrait dying onscreen, she did so in October Sky.