Many people like this "Hunting the Barbarians" because of the mix and match of its types and the interesting presentation. It is a jungle adventure, a muddy on-road comedy, with a warm and healing child protagonist, as well as a playful soundtrack and charming New Zealand scenery. More importantly, this work is free and unruly in appearance and form. But it has a serious torture core. These tortures are not deliberately sublimated, nor are they pretending to be dull. When you haven't noticed it, the things that make people reflect will naturally appear. Therefore, for this film, the audience can take what they want, the rhythm is cheerful and joyful, the lines are funny and cute, and there is a section of the end of the road where the drag racing is running at the end.
When the little fat man was brought to the foster family in the countryside by the welfare agency, the fat orphan was almost incurable in the description of the person in charge of the hypocritical welfare agency. He is very vulgar, full of bad habits, and unwilling to communicate with others. Perhaps the audience thought that what they were about to face was a story in which a little ruffian turned the pastoral music upside down. But the story soon began to turn, the protagonist was replaced by an interesting and determinedly, the kind hostess died accidentally, and the reticent uncle and this unruly fat man had to get along alone. The child didn’t want to be transferred to another foster family. The uncle wanted to be alone in the forest. Both of them fled into the forest. But the uncle accidentally got his foot and the two were trapped in the jungle. , They all think that the uncle kidnapped the child, and a ridiculous search and escape began.
This escape journey, to some extent, the accident has become a journey of communication between the uncle and the child. I don’t know how many people have noticed some of the details. The uncle got a letter from the welfare agency in the cabin for the first time, and passed it to the child, making him stumbling and reading. While fleeing, he saw the notice and asked the child. Reading for him, he said angrily, reading is useless, the child laughed at him as being illiterate, but this ridicule accidentally hit the point, the uncle is indeed illiterate, and the child is an authentic "wild boy" in the eyes of others. In this sense, both of them are "barbarians"-from the perspective of the so-called civilized world. In contrast, those who encircle them all claim to be righteous and civilized, but some people do not ask indiscriminately. They think that the uncle has violated the child and want to save it. In fact, it is for the reward, the slogan "Don't give up a child". The women in the welfare agency who are talking about don’t care about the children’s inner feelings at all. They just perform a performance performance. They don’t want to listen to the children’s wishes, and they don’t care about the truth of the facts. They do their best to put the children in. Other families brought the uncle to justice. When the pursuit became more and more difficult, when the police and the army were involved, some subtle torture began to emerge: Who is the barbarian? An illiterate uncle, a mischievous orphan, or that group of professionals?
In a sense, the uncle and the child have become mirror images of each other. They are similar to each other and mirror each other. Both of them are people who are unwilling to expose their inner world, but in fact they both have a soft and rich heart. The uncle has been longing for his deceased wife. Even though he pretends to be very cold on the surface, the child chants haiku composed of swear words every day, but he secretly writes poems about family affection. On the way to escape, they changed from dislike for each other to dependent on each other, showing each other's hearts, the old man began to become kind, and the children began to show off. At this time, the little fat man began to talk about his experience in the orphanage and the reasons for the closed heart. They are all dirty, can't eat enough, run in the jungle, almost hunted animals, but accidentally began to brew the most important and true things about human beings-emotion and empathy. But this is precisely what the group of pursuers is missing. From then on, the civilized world became a savage world, but the wild jungle unexpectedly became gentle.
The embarrassing dodge began to reveal some philosophical implications. Rather than fleeing, it is better to say that they are guarding, defending some of the warmth in their hearts, and resisting the brutal invasion of ignorant outsiders. These tortures and reflections are still presented in laughter. Cold humor and warm-heartedness, madness and carelessness are the keynote of this movie, but sometimes there is always gentleness coming suddenly. In fact, in the process of hunting and escaping, under the squeeze of external forces, the relationship between the child and the uncle has also been deformed. The child is afraid of being abandoned, and the uncle does not want to be misunderstood. Sometimes they will speak bad words at each other. Some uncontrollable situation. The replacement of brutality and warmth is sometimes just a flash of thought in the heart, which sometimes makes people feel very cold.
In the end, these two "barbarians" were still defeated by the "civilized man". The uncle was put in a correctional facility, and the child was assigned to another family. Fortunately, procedures and systems can't dismantle emotions. Children still Looking back, I found my uncle. They reorganized into a kind of "family" with a unique meaning. They have a blood relationship between them. This is the first time that they no longer feel lonely.
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