It's insane this movie exists. Not because it's good in any way, which it is not, but because this film is literally Nazi propaganda that was produced in 2018. For those that might not know, the "colony" in this film that the girl escapes from is Colonia Dignidad, which is one of the endpoints of the Chilean ratlines, where Nazis fled from Germany at the end of war to avoid capture and prosecution.

Colonia Dignidad was run by the legendary one-eyed Nazi pedophile, Paul Schäfer, who, unsurprisingly, raped a lot of children there. The colony was a little piece of lebensraum in Chile that was secretly making chemical weapons, raping and killing locals and also functioned as a blacksite for, [then fascist dictator] Pinochet and the CIA. The torture methods used at Colonia Dignidad were incredibly fucked up and included training dogs to rip the genitals off of torture victims. Because of their connection to the Pinochet's fascist regime, the Chilean government still covers up this history and gives political protection to Colonia Dignidad, which now operates as a creepy tourist resort. There have been semi-recent protests in Chile for the state to shut this place down and tell the truth about it. This movie seems to be a direct response to that and an attempt to whitewash their history and rehabilitate their reputation.

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The film itself is a pretentious and tedious art student project that tells the story of a young girl who runs away from "the colony" to live in an abandon house by herself with two pigs. It's structured like your typical German/Prussian cautionary tale for children: Respect and obey your elders or the bad things in the woods will eat you.

In the way the film presents itself , the wolf the girl is escaping is a metaphor for her "irrational" fear of Colonia Dignidad (Possibly Schäfer himself), and the girl's attempt to live *without *the colony is depicted as hubris. The girl makes mistakes, experiences loneliness, hurts herself and others, while the wolf voice whispers her self-doubt. Ultimately the girl recognizes that she is not an island and cannot live without the help of the colony; that the woods are a dangerous place without the protection of the wolf. She finally cries out for the wolf to save her, at which point she is liberated from her hubris. Ugh.

This film seem to attempt to portray the child victims of Colonia Dignidad (many of whom were raped) as ungrateful and foolish, while portraying Colonia Dignidad (and possibly Schäfer) as a patient protector that had only been unfairly misjudged.

Wild.