Word: krumgold
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...truth was that pinchik had not felt comfortable in the shoes but he could never bring himself to say no to a salesman. "I want to be liked," he admitted to Blanche. "Once I bought a live wildebeest because I couldn't say no." (Note: O.F. Krumgold has written a brilliant paper about certain tribes in Borneo that do not have a word for "no" in their language and consequently turn down requests by nodding their heads and saying, "I'll get back to you." This corroborates his earlier theories that the urge to be liked at any cost...
...simply told, Miguel sometimes goes naive. The performances are a good cut below professional even in several major roles, and almost no tension develops between the film's human characters, who seem uniformly kind, generous, hard-working and whole. Nonetheless, the movie catches the semidocumentary flavor of Joseph Krumgold's novel, and succeeds as a feeling and poetic exploration of the mysteries that bind man to nature and boys...
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