An anthropology film starring Truffaut himself. It tells the story of a boy who was abandoned in the wild when he was a child. He was found by the village name and sent to a school for the deaf. Because of the loss of all the ability to integrate into human society, the professor played by Truffaut was brought home and slowly trained the wild child's speech and cognitive ability. This film is easily reminiscent of Herzog's "Every man for himself, God against all". But unlike Herzog's ruthless in the end, this film is milder.
Wild children boarding in the school for the deaf were ridiculed and bullied collectively by other classmates. In the end, the professor took him back to his home with the housekeeper to take care of wild children and to start civilized training. They named him Victor, and Victor liked to drink water and milk. So the professor asked him to say the word for milk every time before drinking milk. Finally succeeded after numerous failures. The professor trains him to recognize and select tools, to teach him how to spell words, to train him to place tools according to shapes and words. Sometimes it succeeds and sometimes it fails. Because Victor couldn't concentrate on his studies for a long time. He had to spend a lot of time outside in nature before he could continue his studies. Victor would often look out the window, standing in the garden excitedly drenched in heavy rain, doing strange movements on the outdoor grass at night, and running to the mountains to drink spring water. Training against injustice has social implications. The professor deliberately punished Victor after he succeeded in taking the right item according to the word, and Victor resisted desperately, which was regarded as stepping into the basic consciousness of human society. The most ironic is that Victor, who longed for wild freedom, ran away from home and sneaked into the villagers' yard to steal chickens in order to satisfy his hunger, only to be found and chased by the villagers. Unable to survive in human society by primitive means, Victor had no choice but to return to the professor's home and continue his civilized life.
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