Over a million athletes worldwide train for the Olympics, but only about one percent achieve that goal. These stories are much different than much of what American and Canadian viewers will see on their TVs during the games.
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Free State of Jones contains good performances and discussion-worthy issues, but director Gary Ross presents them in an piecemeal and uneven manner, ruining what could’ve been something special.
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The idea of captivity is important to the film, although it often seems to be operating in the background. There are physical captives, but there are also emotional spiritual captives. These later forms are perhaps even more dangerous that the physical imprisonment of some.
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?Right now the line between human and non-human animals is at an irrational place. If you?re a human you have rights; if you?re not you don?t. We?re saying that?s wrong.?
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In Ecclesiastes 4:9 we read: ?Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.? (NRSV) Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a cinematic version of those words.
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