Trash the rules and grab what you want, and if someone gets hurt, well, boo-hoo. Indeed, "might makes right" is the ethos of the dominant tribe in this terrifying film, while principled folk cite the rules and scan the skies for rescue.
"If we don't lose our head, we'll be all right...We've got to have rules and obey them. We're...not savages," proclaim Ralph (James Aubrey) and Piggy (Hugh Edwards). Snarling in opposition is the ruffian Jack (Tom Chapin), a hunter unafraid to aim his spear at reasonable or weaker boys.
I saw this film as part of a psychoanalytic group discission in which a participant cited the "Pogo" creator's quote that "we have met the enemy, and he is us."
This chilling thought resonates throughout "Lord," although the deus ex machina ending confers a bit of comfort. We cannot give up on civilization!
"If we don't lose our head, we'll be all right...We've got to have rules and obey them. We're...not savages," proclaim Ralph (James Aubrey) and Piggy (Hugh Edwards). Snarling in opposition is the ruffian Jack (Tom Chapin), a hunter unafraid to aim his spear at reasonable or weaker boys.
I saw this film as part of a psychoanalytic group discission in which a participant cited the "Pogo" creator's quote that "we have met the enemy, and he is us."
This chilling thought resonates throughout "Lord," although the deus ex machina ending confers a bit of comfort. We cannot give up on civilization!