hunt down barbarians

Lilla 2022-03-25 09:01:08

An abandoned child of an orphanage found a dilapidated and chaotic family for adoption, but he didn't want to meet a fat aunt and uncle who had similar tastes. A warm house, a quilt with a hot water bottle, and a proper bookshelf, everything seems to be transforming.
But the fat aunt died suddenly, and the bad uncle and the little boy still looked down on each other. Coupled with the words of the fat aunt before his death, "She came from a wonderful lake in the bushes, that is the place where heaven began, and she will be sprinkled there when she dies", the little boy absconded with his ashes.
The next day, the bad uncle found the lost child in the bushes. Since then, the plot has entered the right path. Their hunting careers and survival in the wilderness correspond to the "barbarians" in their names, but I don't think there are too many bright spots here. During this period, I met a few crazy freaks, strange and nonsensical. little funny until the end of the movie.
Throughout the whole film, the main core point is the "little boy's rebellion", and he likes this exciting state of being hunted down. "I didn't choose the gang life, it was the gang life that chose me." I always feel that New Zealand films are still superficial and only care about the plot, not the deep inner. The viewing experience is not as good as the ratings and legends.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople quotes

  • Ricky Baker: Shit just got real! Back up, homies, and let go of my uncle!

  • Ricky Baker: We'll just tell them you were looking after me.

    Hec: Doesn't matter what you tell them, they won't believe you. They'll think I made you do it. I'm not going back to jail, I'm better off up here. This is no place for a kid. You're gonna have to go back, Ricky.

    Ricky Baker: To what?

    Hec: To the welfare people.

    Ricky Baker: No!

    Hec: They'll look after you.

    Ricky Baker: No, they won't!

    Hec: They'll find you another home, you'll be fine.

    Ricky Baker: You're not listening! Nobody listens! There's no more homes, just juvy!

    Hec: What's juvy?

    Ricky Baker: Juvenile prison. They don't care about kids like me, they just keep moving us around until something happens like... Amber.

    Hec: Oh no, bugger then. Okay, okay. We're in about a million hectares of bush, that's big, it's big enough to hide in for a while, anyway.

    Ricky Baker: Good enough for me.

    Hec: But we're heading into winter. It's gonna be rough, no huts, no tents, real bush life. Can you handle that?

    Ricky Baker: I can handle it.

    Hec: Yeah. And if you play up, I dump you.

    Ricky Baker: Okay, Uncle.

    Hec: I'd still prefer if you don't call me Uncle.

    Ricky Baker: Okay, Hec. So what do we do now?

    Hec: We run.

    [They run for a few seconds, then stop out of breathe]

    Hec: Wait, wait wait. Maybe we don't need to run.

    Ricky Baker: Oh yeah, let's just fast walk.