The film also has the director's trademark lightness, which helps to not make the film's subject matter too bleak or disparaging. But somehow it does- Truffaut laces the film with a kind of undertone of logic for the audience (how can a boy for most of his life be out in the wild and become suddenly domesticated), while making a sort of nature versus society statement. ![]() In a way it's hard to find what the dramatic conflict of the film would be if not for the push & pull struggle between the scientists and his 'test' subject of sorts, Victor, the wild child of the title. The Wild Child could be the kind of movie that doesn't work. ![]() Reviewed by Quinoa1984 9 / 10 Truffaut asks the question through a dramatic narrative- can humanity be brought out through science?
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