★★★★ (Four stars is a perfect score) It is rare that a movie that won an academy award is not shown in Chicago at all, but "The Kid and the Eagle" is like that. If the name of this film sounds unfamiliar, then I should add that "The Kid and the Eagle" won the British Film Academy Award in 1971 and is the best film of the year in the UK. It also received many other honors, including the Edinburgh Grand Prix and many praises at the New York Film Festival. But commercially, it has never been released in the United States. In this regard, it does not have many appointments in the UK-the distributor is worried that the audience will not understand the film’s Yorkshire accent. This is a typical point of view. No matter when a good movie appears, it seems a bit unusual; no one will worry about Michael Caine’s accent in "Alfie", maybe because there are enough in "Alfie" Sex scene. If "The Kid and the Eagle" is not one of the best, warmest, and most moving movies in recent years, then none of this matters. After being buried for many years, it finally got the 16mm release in 1972 and held its premiere at Loyola University in Chicago. This film tells the story of a teenager and the Kestrel he has trained. It may inevitably require Loyola University's Biological Honor Society to arrange an appointment-are they interested in this film or are they interested in Kestrel interest? "The Kid and the Eagle" is directed by the young British filmmaker Ken Roach. He has made three high-quality films, but the commercial performance has been disappointing. His "Poor Cow" with Carol White is an ambitious but somewhat confusing film that tells the story of a pregnant barmaid; I think it will be more successful in the later stages of the feminist movement. Following "The Kid and the Eagle", he made "Family Life", which was acclaimed at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was released in New York last fall under the name "Wednesday's Child". This film tells the story of an uncomfortable adolescent girl and her nervous parents. It produces the desired effect in a cold, real-life way. But "The Kid and the Eagle" is the best one of them. He uses a very low budget, live shooting, and uses most of the local non-professional actors. His story tells of a boy trapped in the class-biased education system in Britain. He reached the age of leaving school and decided to leave, but he had no other special concerns. He was ridiculed and targeted at home (by his brother), and he was not good at words among his peers. One day, he found a little Kestrel and trained it to hunt. Kestrel became his path to freedom and a state of nature—this state is what his soul needs, but his The family and school denied him. Then the system that was scared or offended by his freedom began to fight back. This movie has a heartbreaking human touch.
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