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Idell 2022-10-22 21:52:10
1. Truffaut captures the children's desire for freedom and tenderness. 2. Victor calls to the moon; crawls in the shower, greedily opening his mouth to taste the rain. 3. The window becomes the intermediary between society and nature. The praise that the wild child receives is always a glass of water. When looking at the scenery outside the window, savor it carefully and immerse it in it, just like a religious ceremony. 4. Recorder and mandolin soundtrack, retro circled. 5. Narration, Notes,...
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Raphael 2022-10-22 17:47:35
One of the things I am very moved by this movie is that it restores the issues about "growth education" that many similar themes have avoided. The doctor is full of philosophical implications for his "civilized" training process. After knowing the rules, logical correspondence, etc., and paying attention to his acquired upbringing is caused by the external constraints of behavior-reward/punishment, has he established a moral and ethical...
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Madisyn 2022-10-22 16:49:04
Gentle and graceful, Truffaut, skillfully manages wild children and becomes a father! In 1970, this one is still almost the...
The Wild Child Comments
Extended Reading
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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.
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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.
Director: François Truffaut
Language: French,French Sign Language Release date: September 11, 1970