Growth

Cornell 2022-12-07 20:13:43

This film was recommended by others. After listening to the title and seeing the cover, I felt that it was a cartoon, but when I first introduced it, I thought it was an animal world. After gradually entering the situation, I realized that it was a film about people and nature. .
In the process of watching, I have a kind of doubt, is this really what a child is doing, from coming up with "Dry Land Spaceship" to "Crossing the Crocodile Island", and then to "Fighting the Lion King", scene by scene It was completely beyond my expectations, at least I wouldn't dare to take these too risky actions. But I have always cared more about a spirit conveyed by the film.
When the father died, the child did not shed a single tear.
When watching the child leave, the scars on the leopard's face appear to be real tear marks.
There is a kind of emotion running through this film, it seems to be parting, but it doesn't look like it. It seems to be family, but there are shortcomings. I think it is more like growing up. As the world goes by, the father dies, the leopard grows up, and the child matures. Growth brings us both joy and sadness, whatever, we grow up.

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Duma quotes

  • [last lines]

    Xan: [voiceover narration] There are things you know without knowing. For Duma, it was his wildness. For Rip, his family. For me, it was my dad. Everything he was, everything he believed in is now part of me. I was taking Duma home, but he took me somewhere too. Finding Duma's true home brought me back to mine and showed me that love doesn't stop when time passes or you live in different places or somebody's gone. That's how it was with me and Duma.

  • Xan: [observing Peter as he is biting a flower] What on earth are you doing?

    Peter: Well, this is simple. You just grab a shaker, fill it up, stuff in the flower and you have... a bottle.

    Tourist #1: [brings a bowl of milk] Here you are.

    Peter: Cheers!

    [pours the milk into a pepper shaker and straps the flower to it]

    Xan: [the cub bites him] Ah! He's feisty, dad.

    Peter: See if this helps.

    [hands Xan the bottle and clicks his tongue to coax the cub]

    Xan: [the cub begins to drink a little bit] Hey, he's drinking it!

    Peter: Good.

    Xan: Black streaks all along his face. You know what that means?

    Peter: What?

    Xan: A cheetah!

    Peter: A cheetah? Yeah. How long would you like to keep him, Xan? Of course there is something you need to realize... we can't keep him like we keep the others. One day we'll set him lose, when he's big enough.