Romantic Primitivism vs Anti-primitivism
The discussion on the noble savage or romantic primitivism vs rational thinking and anti-primitivism has been going for a couple of centuries now. It all comes down to a vision of what the inner nature of humans is. Is it essentially good or evil? Can a civilised man return to its primitive state and forget civilization and become a feral animal? Or perhaps to a state of primitive goodness an innocence? Can a wild uncivilised person integrate in society? Can a person grown in the wild become as civilised as those already 'civilised'? Is there anything that qualifies human nature in all humans? Can we even speak of human nature?
This is an ongoing list on films that depict these two opposing views, sometimes confronting both views in the film, some others presenting just a view of one of them. There is a majority of films about the noble savage and not as many showing anti-primitivism approaches.
This is an ongoing list on films that depict these two opposing views, sometimes confronting both views in the film, some others presenting just a view of one of them. There is a majority of films about the noble savage and not as many showing anti-primitivism approaches.
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