Arbor and Swifty are good friends who grew up in Bradford and had a poor family. Arbor suffers from ADHD and often causes trouble. It seems that only Swifty can play with him, and the two take care of each other. When the friends were kicked out of the school for a fight, they decided to pick up the tatters to subsidize the family, and started working for Kitten, a local waste dealer. Kitten has a racehorse. Arbor found that stealing copper wires was very profitable. In order to make more money, he started with the idea of high-voltage wires. Swifty is more willing to take care of the horse racing for Kitten. Kitten discovered Swifty's talent for horses and wanted Swifty to win the horse racing competition for himself. Arbor felt that he was exploited by Kitten and hated him using Swifty's love for horses to profit for himself, so he stole Kitten's scrap metal and sold it, but the money was not available and he was accused. Kitten forced Arbor to steal more valuable copper wires for himself. The friends did not realize the danger of high-voltage electricity. Arbor cut the wires and Swifty helped to get them. An accident happened.
The garden in Wilde’s fairy tale is that spring is not coming, and in the movie it is the accumulation of low-pressure clouds, waiting for a rain. There is the hum of high-voltage power lines in the ears, and the characters appearing are as nervous as insecure horses, but Arbor's street curses can alleviate the depressive atmosphere. Who is the selfish giant? Arbor who relies on the friendship of Swifty and believes that earning money can solve the problem; Kitten who greedily uses others for his own benefit; Arbor's mother who thinks that the school does not teach her two children well; thinks that she only needs to provide food and housing for her own children Swifty’s father and a helpless mother who insists that only education can get rid of poverty. Swifty held his hand tightly when Arbor was restless, and never let go; willing to work for Kitten so that his beloved horse can be taken care of; silently helping Arbor’s mother clean the broken glass door; going home to hug his younger brother and coax his sister, give Mom pays the rent; the kind-hearted Swifty is giving selfless love from beginning to end. Only he knows that horses should not be just a tool for people to use. Horses can feel the fear of horse drivers. The reins should not be tightened too tightly. Take good care of them, and they will also take care of you. I think when Swifty listened to his mother and went back to school, he should get a little more than a candy, but he didn't. It’s just that the price of love is too great and too heavy. In Wilde's fairy tale, in the garden of the selfish giant, spring is here. The giant saw his beloved child, "Who hath dared to wound thee?" cried the Giant; "tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him." "Nay!" answered the child; "but these are the wounds of Love." As the life burned torch, the heart was crushed by the rumbling sound, the rain in the movie also started.
Arbor is not a selfish giant because he is just a child.
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