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Colten 2022-10-02 00:24:12
Utopian paranoia
The protagonist, Allie Fox, despises Japan as a great American on the one hand, and the world together with the United States on the other. A world that has the mind of a scientist but wants to abandon this science and live in groups. He ridiculed Robinson for spending a lot of effort to return to...
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Sunny 2022-06-17 12:23:31
My work will outlast me
In 1986, the famous Australian film director Peter Weir's work "Mosquito Coast". Although this film was made 34 years ago, it is still a classic when viewed today. The film tells the story of the scientist and inventor Fox's outstanding creativity that makes his eldest son Charlie deeply admired,...
Jadrien Steele
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[first lines]
Charlie: My father was an inventor, a genius with anything mechanical. Nine patents, six pending. He dropped out of Harvard, "to get an education", he said. I grew up with the belief that the world belonged to him, and that everything he said was true.
Allie Fox: Look around ya, how did America get this way? Land of promise, land of opportunity. Give us the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Have a Coke. Watch TV.
Charlie: Have a nice day.
Allie Fox: Go on welfare. Get free money. Turn to crime - crime pays in this country.
Charlie: [laughs]
Allie Fox: Why do they put up with it? Why do they keep coming? Look around you Charlie, this place is a toilet.
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Allie Fox: Look at this place, these are poor people. Look at what they own. Look at what they eat, they don't have meat, but they have asparagus that they cut.
Jerry Fox: I don't think we should be here.
Allie Fox: They welcome visitors, son. It's an old custom of theirs from the jungle. Be kind to strangers they say, you never know when you might be one yourself. That's the law of the jungle.
Charlie: But this isn't the jungle dad.
Allie Fox: No? No, because no jungle is as murderous as this is. They traded green trees for this room. It's pathetic. And it makes me mad, because they're going to end up being part of the problem.
Allie Fox: It would take courage to go there.
Charlie: Go where?
Allie Fox: The jungle. Not ordinary gumption, but 4 o'clock in the morning courage.
[glancing toward his boys]
Allie Fox: And who's got that?
