"I hope you like the little friends in your room, they say you like reading, so I prepared a lot of books for you, you will see Indian table lamps, bulldog table lamps and a few cat ornaments, and a sharp knife to keep you at night It's for killing monsters. I don't know what you've been through, I'm sure it must be very hard, but you're here, this is your home. Anyway, we're very happy that you're here, and I left a small hot water bottle on your bed, See you tomorrow morning."
The kind and loving Aunt Bella warms a boy named Ricky "bad guy" by welfare agency staff with a hot water bottle.
Behind Ricky's rebellious behavior of stealing, destroying things, burning things, and graffiti is a wandering soul, as he himself said, "People like me are walking, walking, trying to find a A place, a better home". It also reflects the fact that welfare agencies are constantly swaying the whereabouts of adopted children according to the so-called adoption conditions and judgment rules. Fortunately, this time, the big log cabin on the farm by the adopters, Ms. Bella and Mr. Hector, might be the home that Ricky wanted. However, the sudden death of Aunt Bella caused the welfare agency to cancel the family's adoption qualification. Ricky, who was unwilling to return to the welfare agency, carried Aunt Bella's ashes and went to the place closest to the sky and the freest place she mentioned. , Lake Makitaco.
Catching up with Uncle Hector, who was about to bring Ricky back to the welfare institution, he became an "abuse" and a "pervert" by accident, and the welfare institution joined the police on the high-sounding reason of "not giving up any child". There's a big jungle hunt for Ricky and Hector. The manhunt turned into a five-month battle for Ricky and Hector to resist the government's privileged speech and defend freedom.
When Ricky and Hector were finally besieged by the police and the army in the scrapyard, Ricky threatened Uncle Hector with a gun not to allow him to surrender, Ricky's performance was really crazy, but if you have any doubts about the relationship between Ricky and Aunt Bella If you have an impression of the dialogue, you may be able to understand Aunt Bella's influence on Ricky and Ricky's insistence on freedom.
Bella: "Those wild horses no one can ride them, they're too wild. And why do they have to be ridden?"
Ricky: "Maybe that's what they're there for."
Bella: "Why can't they eat grass safely, just be a horse?"
There are a few other players in this fight between Uncle Hector, Ricky and the government. In the face of hunters who do not believe what they see and distort the meaning of Ricky, they become the accomplices of the government to distort the facts, but also become the mobile supply station for Hector and Ricky :P. Friendly and welcoming farm father and daughter help Hector and Ricky as they rescue a diabetic forest worker. The self-proclaimed madman Sam, who lives alone in the forest, is dissatisfied with the overly stylized government affairs. He is a supporter of the struggle against the government. The "Form Life" paragraph he published on the night he took in Hector and Ricky was very exciting: "The bastard government Still the same, always trying to stop the little boy from living his life, I'm not going back because I don't want to be part of the machine - the form-filler. That's how they catch you, you can do anything with your life Fill out the form first. There's a form for everything, you fill it out and you get it, and then they ask you to fill it out, just to make sure you've filled out the first form. And when you don't want to fill it out form, then there are five forms waiting for you to fill out.”
The collision of these positions is nothing but a torturing of the New Zealand government's working methods and original intentions. Are people who do not follow the "order" barbaric, or are the government machines that impose the so-called "order" on people and use excessive rules to shackle people's freedom? Of course, this actually reflects the maturity of New Zealand's welfare undertakings. Only with self-confidence and full attention can we dare to reflect and review on the surface, and the national pride and self-examination can not be hidden.
The film uses a lot of wilderness survival and jungle adventures to fully demonstrate New Zealand's clean air, pure water, fertile soil, vast and magnificent forests, and people can't help feeling that New Zealand is a veritable green kingdom. And uses the forest and green fields as a bunker outside the government's excessive rules, expressing to the rule-makers that the demands and pursuits of the people living in the green and pure land for the freedom of body, mind and soul are the core of the film...
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