A child is grossly deformed and abandoned.
Chance intervenes, providing shelter, friendship and nourishment.
The passage of congenial times nurtures love and success, swathed within an impoverished yet self-sufficient itinerant tenacity, innocent yet cunning, diligent and stable.
Until historical alignments introduce an aristocratic heritage whose peers and privileges threaten his sense of balance.
But these very same entitlements present means, pretentious and vitriolic though they may be, through which that sense's desire for social justice can institute positive change, in pre-revolutionary France.
L'homme qui rit is more of a kid's film, filled with obvious larger-than-life stereotypical depictions situated within a maudlin yet tear-jerking realistic fairy tale, but it does function as a contemporary allegory for democratic citizens who lack wealth but still wish to use their (available) political channels to influence current affairs, such as the environmental footprint of big business.
It's difficult.
It's daunting.
And seemingly impossible.
Unless you take into consideration the work of organizations like Avaaz and/or what's currently taking place in highly industrialized nations like Germany, whose decision to replace all of its nuclear reactors with environmentally sustainable technologies should be applauded.
It can be done.
It's being done.
Canada can do similar things.
If it's intent on moving forward.
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