I have to admire the ingenuity of the director and screenwriter for expressing the important topic of human civilization in such a relaxed way. For people living in the desert, ivory is meaningless, and they don't understand why "people outside" take the useless and throw away the edible meat. Isn't this the best irony for those who go to great lengths to poach?
When the fear of the psychologist in the film when the plane crashes into the wilderness and the enjoyment of the botany doctor are shown together, what we see is the unfamiliarity of being far away from nature and the beauty of being close to nature. As the Doctor of Botany said, if you don't mess with it, it won't mess with you. This is not the most correct way to get along with nature. At this point, the primitive man clearly did better than the urban man in modern civilization.
The lovable protagonist, after his child accidentally got into the car out of curiosity, set off again to find the child. On the way, he faces the poacher's shotgun, fearless because he thinks it's just a smooth stick; and the exhausted scientist, who saves him from dehydration in the ancient way of primitive African tribes (this way From the mouth of a modern person in the first part, the director is really intentional); facing two soldiers fighting each other, he did not feel that they were fighting at that time, just thought it was a boring game; The female doctor, although they did not speak the same language, he helped her with gestures. As a thread running through several unrelated stories, the director's arrangement of the protagonist can be described as meticulous.
Unsurprisingly, the film ends with a happy ending. The two scientists return to the meeting place and secretly kiss; two soldiers who hate each other shake hands amicably and leave (does this symbolize capitalism and socialism reconciled?); even the poachers seem to be purified and rehabilitated. The two children and their father finally returned to their homeland together, and their accidental intrusion into modern society was just a small episode in their lives.
Compared with the harmony of primitive society, the film expresses more dissatisfaction with the western post-industrial age. In the primitive man's eyes, the war is like a game, why do some great powers enjoy it so much? God has given human beings the same environment and resources, but people in modern society grab it frantically and do not know how to be grateful and temperate. The god is not crazy, the modernist is crazy.
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