this film grab me right from it start and where a sweet look teen age girl be show visit a grave alone and then elton john powerful song friend start play while she show walk alone through the street of paris and carry a suitcase and naively unaware of the car theft and prostitution go on around her . the entire film be a beautiful and dreamy and romantic collection of scene of young love and hold hand and living in the country and wild horse run around freely and field of wildflower and sunset and toast of wine and evening by the fireside and have fun and and general innocence and all set to romantic music by elton john . it magical . somehow i miss see this film when i be grow up . i be sure it would have leave a strong impression on me if i have see it then . i remember the radio advertisement for the movie in 1971 and talk about how it be a special movie with music by elton john and and with the chorus of the theme song friend play in the ad ( makin friend for the world to see . ) and but i never hear anything else about it in those day and and never get to see it until i rent it 35 year later from a video store . by then it have be edit and censor and and all kind of unhappy people with angry political agenda be use all kind of ugly word to describe the film . what can i say . the world have go insane since then . the story be that a 14 year old girl be force to move in with her cousin in paris after both her parent die . ( it be their grave she be visit in the opening scene . ) one day while visit the zoo alone she meet a 15 year old boy and they hit it off and and agree to meet the next day . the next day while rid together the boy accidentally drive his car into a lake in a freakish solo car accident . it be his father car and he can not bear to go back home to face his father wrath and so the two teenager begin live in the french countryside together and with the mutual background that they both hat their life at home . they settle into an unoccupied cottage and the boy take odd job to support themselves and their suppose friendship turn into romance and the girl become pregnant and and they successfully have a baby at home . all the while the boy father have the police attempt to locate his miss son . on the 1 year anniversary of the couple flight together and the police finally locate the boy employer by an in person inquiry and and be tell they can see the boy the next morning when he come to work . the next morning the boy be show leave his cottage to go to work and say a sweet farewell to his girlfriend or wife and and happily do cartwheel a the scene freeze on his girlfriend wave goodbye . at least that how the video version i saw end . it an unexpected though well time end and presumably depict the last moment of bliss before the boy be take back to his parent home and his happy life with his wife and baby be shatter . as beautiful a the story and image be and the plot be awfully unrealistic and highly contrive . i think it good just to enjoy the movie a a young person dream come true fantasy and to go no far in analysis and because all logic and believability quickly fall apart when the story be examine in more depth . why would a fully furnish and stock cottage be leave unattended with the door unlocked and unvisited for a full year . what do they plan to do when the owner return . why would a girl trust a car thief enough to get pregnant from him . didn not they think it be unethical to use other people home and food . how could they ever hope to get need dental care or other emergency medical attention while live outside of society . how could the boy have a car accident on a country road with no collision and no other car around . where be there place anywhere near civilization where wild horse run free . how be it that a teenage male would not have sex a the primary thing on his mind when he pick up a girl at a zoo . ( the elton john song lyric just do not fit . ) why would they take off clothes when sleep outside at night when it about to get cold . and so on . the scene of wild horse be contrive to appeal to girl and as be the unrealistic theme of friendship before romance and and all the back washing and tickle scene with their predictable outcome and the running through flower field towards each other and the haze filter and the scene shoot through wildflower in the foreground and the baby duck and and so on . it work and but it definitely contrive . still and this be a movie about youth and freedom and and that ideal hasn not change since the 1970s . young people today be still treat a belonging or a lose pet to be recover by the police instead of treat a mature human being who have the same need of romantic love and freedom a do the adult world and and the ability to be responsible when give that freedom . therefore the message be universal . it clear why a sequel wouldn not work represent this story be about a magical and year long reprieve from the real world . such a situation could never have be extend indefinitely and assume that it could even happen in the first place and and a story about real life afterward would lack the magical appeal of such an unreal state of existence . i really hope that no teenager take the film seriously enough to try such a foolish stunt . but i hope equally well that teenager who be impress by this film in the 70 learn something from it and and have since then make attempt to make such a magical world a more attainable reality for others and instead of perpetuate society various hatred and repression and especially on their own child .