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Aletha 2022-06-17 17:08:34

Civilization has developed to this day, are we going backwards or forwards? Daddy sees 20th century America as dangerous it's devastated and about to be destroyed He desperately wants to rebuild a superior civilization but sending ice cubes across the rainforest is so stupid that it might have hinted that all he's doing is in vain The three men with guns are the fuse. The brand of modern civilization is still on my father. He complains that America is full of murderers, but he also killed people in the utopia he built with his own hands. He destroyed the best in his heart overnight. The collapse of the local civilization is so easy In fact, here he should understand that it is time to go back, but he completely regards himself as the savior and continues to be the king of the forest, almost sacrificing his family for his unrealistic dreams. He's a tyrannical madman. His tragedy is inevitable. Charlie is the only person in the family who is really with his father. He is a true believer of his father. Until the final "betrayal", he saw the wider world after he really broke free from his father's barrier

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  • [last lines]

    Allie Fox: Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles, straight lines. You cut yourself opening a can of tuna and you die. We still going up-river mother?

    Mother Fox: Yes darling.

    Charlie: [narration] Once I had believed in father, and the world had seemed small, and old. Now he was gone, and I wasn't afraid to love him any more. And the world seemed limitless.

  • Allie Fox: Double-digit inflation and a two-dollar loaf of bread!