this film grabbed me right from its start and where a sweet looking teen aged girl is shown visiting a grave alone and then elton john powerful song friends starts playing while she shown walking alone through the streets of paris and carrying a suitcase and naively unaware of the car theft and prostitution going on around her. the entire film is a beautiful and dreamy and romantic collection of scenes of young love and holding hands and living in the country and wild horses running around freely and fields of wildflowers and sunsets and toasts of wine and evenings by the fireside and having fun and and general innocence and all set to romantic music by elton john. it magical. somehow i missed seeing this film when i was growing up. i am sure it would have left a strong impression on me if i had seen it then. i remember the radio advertisement for the movie in 1971 and talking about how it was a special movie with music by elton john and and with the chorus of the theme song friends playing in the ad (makin friends for the world to see. ) and but i never heard anything else about it in those days and and never got to see it until i rented it 35 years later from a video store. by then it had been edited and censored and and all kinds of unhappy people with angry political agendas were using all kinds of ugly words to describe the film. what can i say. the world has gone insane since then. the story is that a 14 year old girl is forced to move in with her cousin in paris after both her parents die. (it was their grave she was visiting in the opening scene. ) one day while visiting the zoo alone she meets a 15 year old boy and they hit it off and and agree to meet the next day. the next day while riding together the boy accidentally drives his car into a lake in a freakish solo car accident. it was his father car and he can not bear to go back home to face his father wrath and so the two teenagers begin living in the french countryside together and with the mutual background that they both hated their lives at home. they settle into an unoccupied cottage and the boy takes odd jobs to support themselves and their supposed friendship turns into romance and the girl becomes pregnant and and they successfully have a baby at home. all the while the boy father has the police attempting to locate his missing son. on the 1 year anniversary of the couple flight together and the police finally locate the boy employer by an in person inquiry and and are told they can see the boy the next morning when he comes to work. the next morning the boy is shown leaving his cottage to go to work and saying a sweet farewell to his girlfriend or wife and and happily doing cartwheels as the scene freezes on his girlfriend waving goodbye. at least that how the video version i saw ends. it an unexpected though well timed ending and presumably depicting the last moments of bliss before the boy is taken back to his parents home and his happy life with his wife and baby is shattered. as beautiful as the story and images are and the plot is awfully unrealistic and highly contrived. i think it better just to enjoy the movie as a young person dream come true fantasy and to go no further in analysis and because all logic and believability quickly fall apart when the story is examined in more depth. why would a fully furnished and stocked cottage be left unattended with the door unlocked and unvisited for a full year. what did they plan to do when the owners returned. why would a girl trust a car thief enough to get pregnant from him. didn not they think it was unethical to use other people homes and food. how could they ever hope to get needed dental care or other emergency medical attention while living outside of society. how could the boy have a car accident on a country road with no collision and no other cars around. where are there places anywhere near civilization where wild horses run free. how is it that a teenage male would not have sex as the primary thing on his mind when he picks up a girl at a zoo. (the elton john song lyrics just do not fit. ) why would they take off clothes when sleeping outside at night when it about to get cold. and so on. the scenes of wild horses are contrived to appeal to girls and as is the unrealistic theme of friendship before romance and and all the back washing and tickling scenes with their predictable outcomes and the running through flower fields towards each other and the haze filters and the scenes shot through wildflowers in the foreground and the baby ducks and and so on. it works and but it definitely contrived. still and this is a movie about youth and freedom and and that ideal hasn not changed since the 1970s. young people today are still treated as belongings or as lost pets to be recovered by the police instead of treated as mature human beings who have the same needs of romantic love and freedom as does the adult world and and the ability to be responsible when given that freedom. therefore the message is universal. it clear why a sequel do not work represent this story is about a magical and year long reprieve from the real world. such a situation could never have been extended indefinitely and assuming that it could even happen in the first place and and a story about real life afterward would lack the magical appeal of such an unreal state of existence. i really hope that no teenagers took the film seriously enough to try such a foolish stunt. but i hope equally well that teenagers who were impressed by this film in the 70s learned something from it and and have since then made attempts to make such a magical world a more attainable reality for others and instead of perpetuating society various hatreds and repressions and especially on their own children. 
this film grabbed me right from its start and where a sweet looking teen aged girl is shown visiting a grave alone and then elton john powerful song friends starts playing while she shown walking alone through the streets of paris and carrying a suitcase and naively unaware of the car theft and prostitution going on around her. the entire film is a beautiful and dreamy and romantic collection of scenes of young love and holding hands and living in the country and wild horses running around freely and fields of wildflowers and sunsets and toasts of wine and evenings by the fireside and having fun and and general innocence and all set to romantic music by elton john. it magical. somehow i missed seeing this film when i was growing up. i am sure it would have left a strong impression on me if i had seen it then. i remember the radio advertisement for the movie in 1971 and talking about how it was a special movie with music by elton john and and with the chorus of the theme song friends playing in the ad (makin friends for the world to see. ) and but i never heard anything else about it in those days and and never got to see it until i rented it 35 years later from a video store. by then it had been edited and censored and and all kinds of unhappy people with angry political agendas were using all kinds of ugly words to describe the film. what can i say. the world has gone insane since then. the story is that a 14 year old girl is forced to move in with her cousin in paris after both her parents die. (it was their grave she was visiting in the opening scene. ) one day while visiting the zoo alone she meets a 15 year old boy and they hit it off and and agree to meet the next day. the next day while riding together the boy accidentally drives his car into a lake in a freakish solo car accident. it was his father car and he can not bear to go back home to face his father wrath and so the two teenagers begin living in the french countryside together and with the mutual background that they both hated their lives at home. they settle into an unoccupied cottage and the boy takes odd jobs to support themselves and their supposed friendship turns into romance and the girl becomes pregnant and and they successfully have a baby at home. all the while the boy father has the police attempting to locate his missing son. on the 1 year anniversary of the couple flight together and the police finally locate the boy employer by an in person inquiry and and are told they can see the boy the next morning when he comes to work. the next morning the boy is shown leaving his cottage to go to work and saying a sweet farewell to his girlfriend or wife and and happily doing cartwheels as the scene freezes on his girlfriend waving goodbye. at least that how the video version i saw ends. it an unexpected though well timed ending and presumably depicting the last moments of bliss before the boy is taken back to his parents home and his happy life with his wife and baby is shattered. as beautiful as the story and images are and the plot is awfully unrealistic and highly contrived. i think it better just to enjoy the movie as a young person dream come true fantasy and to go no further in analysis and because all logic and believability quickly fall apart when the story is examined in more depth. why would a fully furnished and stocked cottage be left unattended with the door unlocked and unvisited for a full year. what did they plan to do when the owners returned. why would a girl trust a car thief enough to get pregnant from him. didn not they think it was unethical to use other people homes and food. how could they ever hope to get needed dental care or other emergency medical attention while living outside of society. how could the boy have a car accident on a country road with no collision and no other cars around. where are there places anywhere near civilization where wild horses run free. how is it that a teenage male would not have sex as the primary thing on his mind when he picks up a girl at a zoo. (the elton john song lyrics just do not fit. ) why would they take off clothes when sleeping outside at night when it about to get cold. and so on. the scenes of wild horses are contrived to appeal to girls and as is the unrealistic theme of friendship before romance and and all the back washing and tickling scenes with their predictable outcomes and the running through flower fields towards each other and the haze filters and the scenes shot through wildflowers in the foreground and the baby ducks and and so on. it works and but it definitely contrived. still and this is a movie about youth and freedom and and that ideal hasn not changed since the 1970s. young people today are still treated as belongings or as lost pets to be recovered by the police instead of treated as mature human beings who have the same needs of romantic love and freedom as does the adult world and and the ability to be responsible when given that freedom. therefore the message is universal. it clear why a sequel do not work represent this story is about a magical and year long reprieve from the real world. such a situation could never have been extended indefinitely and assuming that it could even happen in the first place and and a story about real life afterward would lack the magical appeal of such an unreal state of existence. i really hope that no teenagers took the film seriously enough to try such a foolish stunt. but i hope equally well that teenagers who were impressed by this film in the 70s learned something from it and and have since then made attempts to make such a magical world a more attainable reality for others and instead of perpetuating society various hatreds and repressions and especially on their own children. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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