Last week of the semester, last BULA event of the semester. Tonight we'll be showing "The Wild Child"* **. 7pm CAS 537C You can RSVP at the Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111372182218624 *It starts at 7. It's an hour and a half long. You should still be able to get back to your TV before "Lost". **I will bring "The Linguists" also and if the sense of the room is that this should be shown instead, we may do that. We didn't wind up screening it last week due to an attendance malfunction. "The Wild Child" (L'enfant sauvage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Child One summer day in 1798, a naked boy eleven or twelve years of age (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is found in a forest in the rural district of Aveyron in southern France. Living like a wild animal and unable to speak or understand language, the child has apparently grown up in solitude in the forest since an early age. He is brought to Paris and initially placed in a school for "deaf-mutes". Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (François Truffaut) observes the boy and believes that he is neither deaf nor, as some of his colleagues do, an "idiot". Itard thinks the boy's behavior is a result of his deprived environment, and that he can be educated. Itard takes custody of the boy, whom he eventually names Victor, and removes him to his house on the outskirts of Paris. There, under the patient tutelage of the doctor and his housekeeper (Françoise Seigner), Victor gradually becomes socialized and acquires the rudiments of language.