SAVAGES is a scathing animated adventure film with a dark side and a biting social commentary. It’s a film that shows that some filmmakers trust the children in the audience to deal with weighty subjects.
The film follows a a young girl who lives on a planation in Borneo. Her father works for the company that is logging the jungle bare. When they witness the members of a crew kill an ape, they rescue the baby and take it home. Things become complicated when the girls cousin arrives from the jungle to go to school. When he flees civilization she gives chase. Eventually she ends up in conflict with the loggers.
This is a very adult film from the director of MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI. It’s a film with death and real world consequences for actions. While it tones things down a bit, there is real danger of things going badly. Things are not sugar coated to nonexistence.
That said, while it’s a good film and one I admire, I’m still not sure what I think of it. The tone is a bit uneven and the ending seems like unearned wishful thinking. The film should have hit me harder.
Still its good enough on its own terms and far enough removed from Hollywood crap that the film is highly recommended.
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