"Animal Kingdom": a chaotic and sinful home

Andre 2022-01-02 08:02:25

Silent ending. Although the boy did what you and I both hoped for, where is his future? Did he really choose his own path?

When the big boy first entered the family, anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was weird, an old woman and three big men, the air was full of spoiling. Three middle-aged men are immersed in drugs and crime, while the old mother is like a queen in the animal kingdom, ruling the family in her own way and protecting three children. Originally, her other child, the boy’s mother, was unwilling to accept such an environment and left home, telling the boy that they were all bad guys. Ironically, this mother died of a drug overdose... She still did not escape after all. Although the influence of this kingdom has been far away for a long time.

Years of drug abuse made these three men more or less mentally abnormal, especially the boss, who often did not understand reality and illusion, and would also act in extremes. It can be said that he is the culprit in this series of tragedies, and it is because of him that changed the fate of his brothers and the boy's life. From the time he started to encourage his brothers to kill the police, until he smothered the boy's girlfriend, making mistakes again and again. It can be said that his subsequent behavior did not go through the brain to think at all, and his entire brain was chaotic in marijuana and drugs.

Even so, the queen still uses her influence to try to settle this seemingly hopeless thing. In her eyes, only her three children, and the grandchildren who are trying to testify are all alien and must be eliminated. For her, no matter what bad things her children do, there is nothing wrong. She just wants to be able to guard them at home. However, at this time, she underestimated the boy. Under the Queen's rule, the middle generation only had to obey, but the younger generation had witnessed everything and decided to end it by themselves. Whether the police or relatives, the boy no longer believes in anyone, he just wants to execute the beast himself.

It is hard to imagine that there is such a real world on the Australian mainland where the country is peaceful and human rights are emphasized. Although this family is full of crime, the police who kill innocent people are not much better, just like stains, everywhere. Drugs are so rampant that teenagers do not refuse to try it. Such an environment is really creepy. Is there a pure land in this world? !

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Animal Kingdom quotes

  • Joshua 'J' Cody: Mum kept me away from her family because she was scared. I didn't realise it at the time, but they were all scared - even if they didn't show it. I think even Barry Brown was scared - even though he never showed it. Everyone felt safe around Baz. He'd punch your head off if ya got in the way - if he was in the middle of an armed robbin', you got between him and the door, he'd put you on the ground and not think twice about it. But he was good to me, and to everyone else. Darren was only a couple of years older than me. When we were little kids, he was like, my best friend. We used to throw rocks at cars 'n' that. He had a way better BMX than me - my bike was shit. My Uncle Craig moved really fast, like... he was tryin'a stay in front of somethin'. And Grandma Smurf - she just seemed to wanna be wherever the boys were. And she just wanted to be around whatever the boys were doing. But they were all scared, even if they didn't show it, even if they didn't know it exactly. Even if they were having to do what crooks do all the time which is, block out the thing they must know. They must know it - which is that crooks always come undone - always, one way or another. In Melbourne at this time - this is a while ago now - the armed robbery squad was out of control. They were shooting guys willy-nilly and gettin' away with it, and they'd been after Baz and my family for months. But the guy they really wanted, the guy they really hated, was my other Uncle - Uncle Andrew, but everyone just called him 'Pope'. He was hiding in a motel room somewhere 'cause he heard he was next. Craig was sellin' drugs, he was sellin' lots of 'em. He had a detective in the drug squad helpin' him do it - a guy called 'Randall Roach'. They'd meet in a fish shop in Footscray, 'cause Craig loved fish. An' I dunno - all this seemed strange to me, but not strange either, you know what I mean? Kids just are wherever they are and they just do what ever they're doin', you know? This is where I was, and this is what I was doin'. After my mum died, this was just the world I got thrown into.

  • Craig Cody: [after handing J. a handgun] Go get him.

    Joshua 'J' Cody: And do what?

    Craig Cody: Let him know who's king.