The New Boy, a film written and directed by Warwick Thornton, 2023. We want to talk about film. We want to know who performed in it. We want to discuss everything; we want to praise it, or point out its weaknesses, as if that is the reason the film was made. And sometimes it is. Or sometimes a film can be made because it wants to show us something, or help us to feel something that the maker thinks we need to feel. It isn't what happens in a story that matters. It is the meaning that matters. Stories don't give us meaning. We have meaning. But we are always forgetting because we are trying to live such meaningless lives in which acquiring things and upholding delusions is everything. The film depicts the beauty of contrast and extreme simplicity. That we are so out of place here. That we are always engaged in a struggle of pretence, of becoming what we are not. That we are tortured and cannot be at peace even as we yearn for peace. And along comes the new boy. He is at peace. ...