This story can't be told any better. Not saying much but you can feel it everything from the start with minimal gestures. Psychological pressure was so intense therefore it was so normal for victim not to put it in to words. At the same time she was feeling guilty because of not being able to stop it as if she can find a way at fourteen. But obviously viewer can understand that it started much younger as well by just looking victim's behaviors to her abuser. One of the best things about the film there was no any overacting nor melodrama. I would definitely recommend this film who wants to see a hard journey to salvation.

I'm pretty obsessed with this movie. It's very rare that a movie (especially one listed on Netflix) takes you through a poignant journey with believable characters and actual character development. It is also very rare to see a bond between a male and female character that is entirely non-sexual in nature. The movie was satisfying from start to finish and featured beautiful locations. The relationship between the abused and her abuser was very realistic. The creators of this movie should be proud.

When I first saw the trailer and guessed what this film might be about, I was very nervous. I was nervous that such an important story might not be handled well, especially by a male director. The few films that I have seen depict rape/molestation have presented it in a way that didn't feel real to me. Others had been too theatrical, too overdone, and too violent.After seeing Wildlike, I knew that writer/director Frank Hall Green had done his research on the subject matter. Real life abuse isn't always loud and violent as we often see it portrayed, but it can be quiet and fleeting as it slips into daily routines with terrifyingly familiar people. In real life the darkest moments of our lives often go unspoken, revealed only in glances or implied in what is left unsaid. Wildlike captures this flawlessly.Wildlike depicts the quietness of pain, but also the placid and beautiful journey to healing that can follow. It is refreshingly optimistic in that it does not linger on the suffering, but instead quickly allows you to escape on an adventure of recovery with the young protagonist. Vast and breathtaking landscapes of Alaska seem to set both the character and the audience free after a meaningfully unsettling first act. And while the scenes of sweeping landscapes captured effortlessly by Hillary Spera are incredible, it is not the purely the majesty of Alaska which defines this film's success. It is the vulnerable and compelling performances of Ella Purnell and Bruce Greenwood which drive the film, and Green's fluid approach to the human condition. Real life is beautiful in it's quietude and subtleties, and that is what Wildlike evokes so honestly.

I saw WildLike recently at a tiny nonprofit in Houston called 14 Pews. Once a church in its lower middle-class neighborhood and no larger than the surrounding wood-frame houses, 14 Pews screened WildLike on behalf of the indie film festival whose main venue was downtown. Frank Hall Green, the writer-director, was present for a post-screening discussion. The movie was the only WorldFest-Houston film I had chosen to see. Midway through the movie I felt the euphoria of discovery. In this intimate, quasi-sacred setting, and in the presence of the director himself, I was watching a really fine film!WildLike is about a 14-year-old girl named Mackenzie (Ella Purnell), a teenage runaway, who flees the uncle with whom she has been living in Juneau, Alaska. Mackenzie wants to return home to her mother who lives in Seattle but lacks the resources to get there. She quickly discovers that wandering Juneau alone and attempting to manipulate others (young men) into rescuing her is a dismal, risky business. Quite by accident, however, Mackenzie runs into fortyish Rene Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood) in Juneau en route to Alaska's Denali National Park for a long planned solitary trek through the wilderness. Rene instinctively recoils from Mackenzie's annoying adolescent wiles and does everything to lose her. Seattle is also Rene's home. WildLike is the story of the relationship between Mackenzie and Rene.If you're looking for a feel-good story about the personal "journeys" of two people who learn wonderful life lessons through their fortuitous father-daughter encounter, WildLike isn't it. You'll fall for the film anyway, because writer-director Frank Hall Green's WildLike is a much grittier, subtler, more fascinating study. In steadfastly avoiding the Hollywood tropes, clichés and moralizing that could have spoiled WildLike, Green's focuses instead on the innumerable details of performance and story, on subtle gestures and body language that prove so revealing, in life as well as in movies. Green has let nothing false, unlikely or contrived creep into his movie, and that makes it a really wonderful experience for those of us who are allergic to such things. WildLike's characters are flawed and imperfect, its ending modest but suspenseful and deeply satisfying. Luckily, Greenwood and Purnell are the perfect talent for Green's approach. Greenwood's gift for conveying inner experience through the lines on his face is mesmerizing, and Purnell perfectly realizes Mackenzie's cool but desperate, hopelessly naive efforts at being a grownup.WildLike may not be exactly what audiences expect. It is a surprisingly fine film about an imperfect relationship between ordinary people that moves awkwardly toward a fortunate conclusion. It will appeal to anyone who loves to study the interplay of dissimilar personalities through cinema. And the scenes set in Denali are wonderful. You will not be disappointed. After the screening, Green described how he fine tuned every detail of WildLike's screenplay. Nothing happened by accident. I am certain Green has found his voice in this movie.