The Emerald Forest

John Boorman goes full Luddite. Taking the harrowing real story of a man searching for his son for years after the boy was taken by a rainforest tribe in South America and applying is ever-increasing pessimism about humanity and its relationship to technology, Boorman takes his ideas towards their supposedly inevitable conclusion and embraces the noble savage fully and completely. This would be fine if the story were better built and less muddled in its delivery of the ideas, though. As it s...