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After setting fire to a school, Peter (Ian Tracey), an emotionally disturbed eleven-year-old boy who never speaks and exhibits self-destructive rages, is placed in a juvenile detention center. He brawls with the other boys and eventually escapes to the forests of Vancouver Island, where he meets a Native shaman (George Clutesi), or “Dreamspeaker,” and his happy-go-lucky mute friend (Jacques Hubert). The Dreamspeaker helps Peter control the terrors that drive him to acts of violence, but his recovery is interrupted when the authorities track him down. Tragedy befalls the Dreamspeaker and his friend, and Peter, who regresses a
After setting fire to a school, Peter (Ian Tracey), an emotionally disturbed eleven-year-old boy who never speaks and exhibits self-destructive rages, is placed in a juvenile detention center. He brawls with the other boys and eventually escapes to the forests of Vancouver Island, where he meets a Native shaman (George Clutesi), or “Dreamspeaker,” and his happy-go-lucky mute friend (Jacques Hubert). The Dreamspeaker helps Peter control the terrors that drive him to acts of violence, but his recovery is interrupted when the authorities track him down. Tragedy befalls the Dreamspeaker and his friend, and Peter, who regresses after being forced to return to the institution, hangs himself.
Director Claude Jutra’s characteristic themes of lost innocence and romantic anarchism are here given a particularly poetic resonance through the setting, the native characters and the contrast between the alienating world of reason and order and a world where love is the norm in human relationships.
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Tags: Drama (1), Canada (1), Illness (1), Color (1), Mind (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), MMG (1), Myth/religion (1), Negativity (1), Journeying (1), Growth/healing (1), 75 Min. (1)
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