The story itself is not complicated, and Fox, the American inventor played by Harrison Ford, is a typical anger. He hated the rotten and depraved modern civilization, and did not care about making money and supporting his family. So, one day, he fled the United States with his wife and four children and came to the tropical jungle of South America. And he bought a dilapidated town next to the river (actually a few grass houses of natives) to realize his dream.
The ensuing scene is that the Fox family reclaims wasteland and builds houses with the local natives. Fox takes advantage of his inventor and builds a several-story ice machine that can make ice cubes without electricity supply. , and even provide air-conditioning to the house. This giant ice machine stands in the lush South American rainforest, adding a dreamlike color.
So far, everything is perfect. Brave pioneers, rebuilding civilization on their own, and getting along well with local primitive aborigines, are simply a model of peach blossoms in modern society. However, things took a turn for the worse after that. With Fox's insistence on showing the ice to the more primitive savages deeper in the jungle, he leads the children on a long journey and attracts robbers. Not only destroyed the ice machine that was out of tune with the environment, but also completely destroyed the home they built with their own hands. After that, Fox's stubbornness and assertiveness intensified. He ignored calls from his wife and children to return to the United States, and set out on his own way to more remote places. Even made up the lie that America was being nukeed to scare his children. In the end, after a violent storm, they lost all their belongings and could only drift in the Amazon river on rafts. Fox was eventually killed by a pastor who was preaching in the area. The last shot of the film is the back of a lonely raft in the pristine Amazon River.
The film's gist is vague, more like a metaphor-filled fable. In my opinion, the focus of this film is on the demise of utopia. In the early stage, Fox is a hero who is detached from the world, and his self-will is his advantage, enough to resist the prevailing value standards and enough to fulfill his inner desire. However, the director's focus is more on describing how this paradise was destroyed. The previous desire to suppress first is just a foreshadowing. So, in the second half of the movie, Fox's equally stubborn character led to irreparable cups. He was simply unreasonable, putting his family at risk. His ideal finally turned into a demon that devoured his sanity.
A stubborn leader can create a new world as wisely and miraculously as a god, or he can completely destroy this world by himself.
Another interesting place is related to religion. When the Fox family was aggressively reclaiming wasteland in the jungle, a pastor who was preaching in the local area came to visit him, and it turned out to be no fun. Fox, who had no sympathy for God and their agents, unceremoniously issued an expulsion order. In many films advertised as rebelling against the old forces, this scene is repeated over and over again. It represents a break with tradition and a renunciation. However, ironically, it was Fox himself who insisted on showing miracles to the savages in the deeper part of the jungle, and insisted on showing them the ice cubes he made, thus causing disaster. Humans seem to have an innate desire to persuade others, and there is always the urge to recommend their own lives to others, even if they are unwilling to succumb to the patterns of other people's lives. The reason why the SNS website is so popular is that it captures the psychology of human beings.
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