The Wild Child (1970)
François Truffaut: Dr. Jean Itard
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Le Dr Jean Itard : I'm glad that you came home. Do you understand? This is your home. You're no longer a wild boy, even if you're not yet a man. Victor, you're an extraordinary young man with great expectations. Later, we'll resume our lessons.
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Le Dr Jean Itard : For the present, his emotions appear unaffected. Despite the ill-treatment he endured at the institute, no one ever saw him cry.
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Le Dr Jean Itard : Canton of St. Sernin. A boy, 11 or 12 years old, naked and apparently deaf and dumb while searching for acorns and roots to eat was caught in the Caune woods by three hunters as he was about to climb a tree to escape from them. Taken to a nearby hamlet...
[he stops reading and cuts the article from the paper]
Le Dr Jean Itard : I could examine him and establish the degree of intelligence and the nature of ideas in an adolescent deprived since childhood of all education because he had lived apart from his species.
