Walking with Goose-"Fly Away Home"

Priscilla 2021-12-30 17:17:10

I first knew that this film was in 2004. When it was in Milu Garden, Lai Yun brought it for us to watch. However, due to time reasons, I only watched half of it. The film tells the story of Amy, a 13-year-old girl living in New Zealand, who lost her mother in a car accident, so her father in Canada took her back to her home. Amy's father should be an inventor. He is very enthusiastic about his work. He always has some strange ideas and practices. His wife can't stand his style, so he took Amy away from him and went to far New Zealand. Because Amy and Dad have been separated since they were young, there is always an unspeakable estrangement between each other, although it is not very obvious.

A child in a problem family. Seeing this, we can guess that this is a film on the theme of family affection and healing. With the help of nature as a third party, the family relationship is restored. Although old-fashioned, it is still very effective.

Amy found the goose egg abandoned by the geese on the damaged land after a farmer attempted to cultivate the swamp privately. She carefully carried the goose egg back home and secretly took a high-powered light bulb from her father. Under the wild goose egg. Because this is a story, we can easily guess that the goose egg successfully hatched a small goose and also hatched Amy's first step out of the psychological shadow. Of course, the first step is successful, but the second step may not be very smooth. Amy's father was kind enough to consult someone from the Wildlife Administration (probably, it was not stated in the film, but I guess it was a similar organization). Even though the guys in the bureau opposed the development of the swamp, they didn't really have feelings for wild animals, but just treated them as a profession with the eyes of a manager. So he asked Amy to cut off the skin of the wings of the little goose so that they could not fly, so that it was easy to manage. Of course Amy would not agree. She took the little goose and fled into the bathroom and locked herself in it. She felt that her father brought the administrator to cut the wings of the goose, so she resolutely refused to come out. As we said, Amy's father is an inventor, so he installed many strange switches in his home. Amy accidentally touched a certain switch while taking a bath in the bathroom, and he hurt herself. Amy was crying bitterly, and finally vented the resentment she had accumulated against her father. Although it is not so wonderful, this second step of venting is also the starting point for a new step.

So the long third step begins, which is a process of growing up and sharing weal and woe with the growth and future of the geese. Geese are migratory birds, and migration is the nature of geese. In order to allow the geese to migrate to the south for the winter, Dad and his friends began experimenting with transforming their glider into a simple biplane aircraft, and persuaded Amy to help realize this plan. This is because we know that anser-duck birds have a habit called imprinting. The chicks will treat the first moving object they see as their mother and follow their actions. The experiment was of course not all smooth sailing, but with the persistence of Amy and his father, the difficulties were overcome one by one, and Amy also learned to fly the aircraft by herself. The journey is finally about to begin. But the director of the good thing hasn't forgotten to set up another obstacle before that. At the beginning, the police officer who wanted to cut the wings of the young goose sneaked into the goose house on a dark and windy night and stole all the wild geese. Of course, this is unavoidable for the members of the "Goose Base", so we saw a very happy rescue operation... The

real flight has begun, and the plan is to fly to the destination in four days (of course, a real wild goose is impossible. It took only four days to fly to the destination). On the way, they mistakenly rushed through an American air force base, encountered poachers, and encountered heavy fog... During the last hour of the voyage, Dad’s aircraft wing broke and one of his arms was dislocated. With the encouragement of her father, Amy walked the last hour with the geese alone, which also symbolized Amy's final independence and the final reconciliation with her father.
In the second year, Amy's 16 geese completed their voyage north alone and returned to the balcony of Amy's home. The film ends with such subtitles.

The beautiful scenery of northern America, the magnificent scene of walking with the geese and the warm healing style are the highlights of the film, especially walking with the geese, which is a great theme for those who like romance and imagination. In the end, after Amy and Dad flew with the wild geese, the series of reports by the American media made me feel the long-lost American humor. Before that, because the story took place in Canada, I didn’t think it was an American film. I didn’t start to doubt it until the American humor was flooded. Oh, it’s not American.

Another: the wild goose in the film, It should be the Canadian Brent Goose, right?

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Extended Reading
  • Bridgette 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    It's a bit like "My Family Bought a Zoo", it's also a real adaptation, but it's much better looking and emotionally smoother.

  • Abdullah 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    OH, It's so beautiful. TT

Fly Away Home quotes

  • [watching Amy lead the geese around]

    Thomas Alden: It's amazing, isn't it, how they, uh, follow her around like that?

    DNR Officer: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, uh, called imprinting. The first living thing a goose sees when it's born, it automatically assume is its mother.

    Thomas Alden: Huh.

    DNR Officer: They'll follow her anywhere.

  • Thomas Alden: GET OFF OF MY LAND!