(1) Why she takes care of Boxer? I mean she should be on the side of the government, not rebels, since she is a part of economic elite. Why wouldn't she report him?
(2) Why the son helps rebels, when rebels humiliated him before, by undressing him?
(3) Why the son stuffs his hair inside that girl?
(4) Who kills the son's father (rebels or soldiers) and why?
(5) Why mayors militia never got them out?
Interested in these questions along with another.
What was the relationship between the mayor and Maria?
Romantic, maybe
There is a fight...
Closing your eyes won't help.
1) it's a plot hole. she helps the very person that is trying to bring her and her family down, which makes her possibly the worst protagonist in film history.
2) probably to spite his mother for forcing him to stay on this coffee bean farm.
3) to show he is crazy.
4) i think it was the son, for the same reason as I described in no.2
5) who cares? the mayor's militia had nothing really to do with the plot.
I don't know that there are definitive answers to your questions. Here's mine:
(1) Why she takes care of Boxer? I mean she should be on the side of the government, not rebels, since she is a part of economic elite. Why wouldn't she report him? Perhaps she realised he was going to die and gave shelter to a dying man.
(2) Why the son helps rebels, when rebels humiliated him before, by undressing him? First real excitement in his life?
(3) Why the son stuffs his hair inside that girl? Fed up with being told off and criticised.
(4) Who kills the son's father (rebels or soldiers) and why? Soldiers. They find the rebel children at the place and probably assume he had been sheltering them. Plus he had their passports in his hand and was probably trying to flee. So he might have been killed in error too.
(5) Why mayors militia never got them out? He did offer. But Maria wouldn't leave and her husband had hatched an escape plan that never came off as the rebel children and soldiers arrived before the planned escape.
I'm a fountain of bloodshare
In the shape of a girl
1) Why she takes care of Boxer?Because he represents Africa and all she wants to do is take care of Africa. She's apolitical.
I mean she should be on the side of the governmentWhy?
she is a part of economic eliteHer father's farmstead was a failure and her family was bankrupt. Did you miss the scene where her husband was forced to sell the farm (and he sold it for peanuts)? There likely was a time when the farm was a financial success, but when the film opens, that time is long past.
(2) Why the son helps rebelsTwo reasons. The first, literal - the circumstances of his life pushed him over the edge, he....hated (I hesitate to say hated, I want to say he was confused, but it's probably closer to hated) the existence that was forced onto him, and wanted to destroy the farm to free himself. The second - the son represents the stereotypical young "bleeding heart" humanitarian from the West who sides with rebels for all the wrong reasons and doesn't know anything about what's really going on. I believe somebody on this board posted a more detailed opinion about the son being a metaphor for that, but I can't find it.
when rebels humiliated him before, by undressing him?He knew and accepted why they did that, he knew he was a target because he was White Material, he knew they were angry and he knew that they were right to be angry
Why the son stuffs his hair inside that girl?A bit of irony there. To convey to her that he was harmless. He shaved off his hair which generally signifies castration and loss of power. White Material not going to harm you. It also signified that he was going to join the rebels. Like PoppyTransfusion mentioned, there was anger there as well, anger at how he was perceived and treated by [Black] Africans and anger at being trapped in a situation he did not want to be in and anger at himself for being a lazy louse
(4) Who kills the son's father (rebels or soldiers) and why?Answered elsewhere
(5)Why mayors militia never got them out?Maria did not want to leave, the was the main part of the plot.......