The Wild Child Comments

  • Arden 2023-09-23 19:51:41

    It's so interesting, it's really...

  • Joaquin 2023-08-30 08:35:08

    Victor the "Wild Child" was discovered in 1798, in the context of the Enlightenment at the time, as a case study to demonstrate the differences between humans and other animals. Dr. Itard, played by Truffaut, believes that the difference between human beings and beasts lies in "language" and "empathy", and later became the pioneer of oral language education for the deaf. The part selected in the film is that the two live together 9 months, a total of 5 years of working together in actual...

  • Gerhard 2023-08-27 15:16:57

    Anti-violence under Chu Fu's cold...

  • Larue 2023-08-22 04:04:27

    This film is adapted from real events in the 18th century, and it is also one of the representative works directed, written and acted by Truffaut. In this film, Truffaut tries to use the simple method of running account to express his concern for the inner world of children, and even uses The way of black and white photography is used to express the lack of emotional color in the wild child's heart, showing strong humanistic care. It is an unpopular masterpiece that is ignored by...

  • Anya 2023-08-11 05:57:25

    The child's acting skills are really awesome! The collision of civilization and wildness, it is not a good thing to be a wild...

  • Skylar 2023-07-26 23:29:15

    Truffaut's narration and shots are really... smooth and smooth~ Unfortunately, it's too short. In fact, this anthropological theme and story can easily be expanded deeper and wider. I didn't expect it to end so...

  • Vivianne 2023-07-24 04:23:55

    Truffaut might as well not act, that 19th century costume looks...

  • Jalyn 2023-05-09 19:38:34

    Between human civilization and nature, let the individual retain the right to choose freely. In addition to showing the superiority of human civilization and society, the process of domesticating wild children does not seem to have any significance for wild...

  • Alanna 2023-04-19 12:40:40

    Simple and simple, basically like a documentary. . Interestingly, the doctor first taught the wild child the cognition of right and wrong and the awareness of resistance before he had learned to express. . . The French are really... The next thing is to teach what freedom...

  • Demarco 2023-02-27 13:16:40

    Recommended reading: 1. Truffaut on "How I Shoot Wild Children" 2. TC Boyle's short story "Wild...

Extended Reading

The Wild Child quotes

  • Le Dr Jean Itard: Canton of St. Sernin. A boy, 11 or 12 years old, naked and apparently deaf and dumb while searching for acorns and roots to eat was caught in the Caune woods by three hunters as he was about to climb a tree to escape from them. Taken to a nearby hamlet...

    [he stops reading and cuts the article from the paper]

    Le Dr Jean Itard: I could examine him and establish the degree of intelligence and the nature of ideas in an adolescent deprived since childhood of all education because he had lived apart from his species.

  • Le Dr Jean Itard: For the present, his emotions appear unaffected. Despite the ill-treatment he endured at the institute, no one ever saw him cry.

The Wild Child

Director: François Truffaut

Language: French,French Sign Language Release date: September 11, 1970