![]() ![]() Even more to the point: This movie shows a real boy and a real cheetah (actually, four cheetahs were used). So, perhaps even more incredibly, is "Duma." There really was a boy and a cheetah, written about in the book How It Was With Dooms, by Xan Hopcraft and his mother, Carol Cawthra Hopcraft. The wolf and geese stories were, incredibly, based on fact. Or the wonderful " Fly Away Home" (1996), about a 13-year-old girl who solos in an ultralight aircraft, leading a flock of pet geese south from Canada. Or his "Never Cry Wolf" (1983), based on the Farley Mowat book about a man who goes to live in the wild with wolves. Perhaps you have seen his " The Black Stallion" (1979), about a boy and a horse who are shipwrecked, and begin a friendship that leads to a crucial horse race. He works infrequently, but unforgettably. "Duma" is an astonishing film by Carroll Ballard, the director who is fascinated by the relationship between humans, animals and the wilderness. He has the knowledge to save the boy and the cheetah. He warns Xan of the dangers ahead ("That is a place of many teeth, my friend that is a place to die"). Then he meets another wanderer in the desert, named Ripkuna ( Eamonn Walker), who once worked in the mines of Johannesburg but now prefers to work alone, perhaps for reasons we would rather not know. Of course the motorcycle runs out of gas. He is headed into the Kalahari Desert, where to get lost is, usually, to die. Xan has courage but not a lot of common sense. ![]()
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