Indifference in the age of traffic

Clay 2022-03-29 09:01:03

The director Taika Waititi is really funny, and this little fat has already been on FAN.

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This movie is nothing more than about chasing down "savages" (emphasis added). To the child care center, the police, and this society, Chubby and Uncle are "savages". To me, the so-called "No child left behind." category of people are "savages." The film emphasizes "no child left behind" more than once, and the irony is particularly obvious.

We're socially besieged; we're bound by so-called rules; there's a myriad of forms to prove our existence... Honestly, after watching the movie, many people will adore such escapes. In this era of traffic, we need this kind of escape, we need to take risks, we need to feel the real feelings instead of "click" and send them to a circle of friends, we need to be a "Wilder people".

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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.