It was a bad movie and like many of the movies about hiking, flawed. You always hear the same stories in all the long-distance hiking movies. They belabor the pains, the same gear and weight issues and tell a personal story about the main character.
For me it is like photographs of the mountains. I'm always disappointed on how little can little can be captured in a photo. It almost trivializes the experience. Some things just have to be lived to truly understand them.