James Charm (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a Portland youth learning to deal with the death of his father. He doesn't like the guy his mom hangs out with and he has become obsessed with death, predicting the death of people and animals sometimes to the hour and day. He is socially inept and his mom (Virginia Madsen) takes him to a psychologist ( Danny DeVito). James "rebels" and meets a group of other misfit children in Portland's nightlife.
This is another slow moving indie style film almost as boring as "Boyhood." "Wilderness" is yet another metaphor for "Life." (Ugh!) About an hour into the film we find out "the secret" that haunts young James, something he has held in and I would have thought come out long ago. Now I will say the acting in the film was fine. Plot and character development was good. I just didn't find the production entertaining in a sea of indie films about screwed up kids trying to figure out life. I spent the whole film waiting to see if Cory, the guy he predicts will die, does so or not. I really needed closure.
Good view of the Vista Bridge. Indie lovers, go ahead and watch it, you know you want to.
Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
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