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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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  • [first lines]

    Charlie: My father was an inventor, a genius with anything mechanical. Nine patents, six pending. He dropped out of Harvard, "to get an education", he said. I grew up with the belief that the world belonged to him, and that everything he said was true.

    Allie Fox: Look around ya, how did America get this way? Land of promise, land of opportunity. Give us the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Have a Coke. Watch TV.

    Charlie: Have a nice day.

    Allie Fox: Go on welfare. Get free money. Turn to crime - crime pays in this country.

    Charlie: [laughs]

    Allie Fox: Why do they put up with it? Why do they keep coming? Look around you Charlie, this place is a toilet.

  • Allie Fox: Look at this place, these are poor people. Look at what they own. Look at what they eat, they don't have meat, but they have asparagus that they cut.

    Jerry Fox: I don't think we should be here.

    Allie Fox: They welcome visitors, son. It's an old custom of theirs from the jungle. Be kind to strangers they say, you never know when you might be one yourself. That's the law of the jungle.

    Charlie: But this isn't the jungle dad.

    Allie Fox: No? No, because no jungle is as murderous as this is. They traded green trees for this room. It's pathetic. And it makes me mad, because they're going to end up being part of the problem.

    Allie Fox: It would take courage to go there.

    Charlie: Go where?

    Allie Fox: The jungle. Not ordinary gumption, but 4 o'clock in the morning courage.

    [glancing toward his boys]

    Allie Fox: And who's got that?