Spoiler alert: In one of the movie's final scenes, a teen is seen being electrocuted with his burnt corpse also shown. Very loosely inspired by the Oscar Wilde story, the movie has a grim realism with frequent violence and scenes that may shock viewers. Arbor (Conner Chapman) and Swifty (Shaun Thomas) are two teens who after being excluded from school become involved with dangerous criminal activity. He grabbed his great big axe and knocked down the wall.Īfter school, people used to smile as they watched the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.Parents need to know that The Selfish Giant is a British drama set in a deprived area in northern England and has strong language, drug abuse, and violence - often involving teens. “Little children, it’s your garden now!” said the Giant. The other children saw that the Giant wasn’t wicked and hadn’t gobbled the little boy up. The little boy smiled at the Giant, who smiled back at him. And the tree immediately came into blossom. The Giant took him gently in his great big hands and put him up into the tree. The little boy didn’t run, because his eyes were so full of tears that he didn’t see the Giant coming. But when the children saw him they were so frightened that they all ran away. He crept downstairs and opened the front door quite softly, and went out into the garden. Then I’ll knock down that wall, and the children will have my garden as a playground forever.” I’ll help that poor little boy on to the tree. “How selfish I’ve been!” he said to himself, “now I know why spring wouldn’t come to the garden. The Giant's heart melted when he saw the little boy in tears. “Climb up, little boy, don’t cry!” said the tree and it bent its branches down. He was so small that he couldn’t reach up to the branches of the tree. Flowers were poking up through the green grass.īut in one far corner of the garden it was still winter. The trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms.īirds were flying about and singing happily. They were sitting in the branches of the trees. There was a little hole in the wall and the children had crept in. “That’s fantastic,” he cried, “spring has come at last!” Then he smelled a lovely scent of flowers coming through the window.

He thought it was the most beautiful music he’d ever heard. It had been a long time since he had heard birdsong in his garden. He thought it must be the King's musicians passing by.īut it was really only a little blackbird singing outside his window. One morning the Selfish Giant lay awake in bed when he heard the most beautiful music. But there wasn’t any in the Giant's garden. Autumn came and every other garden had fruit on the trees. “I hope there will be a change in the weather.”īut spring never came, nor the summer. He sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden. “Why on earth is spring so late?” the Selfish Giant said to himself. The birds didn’t want to sing in it as there were no children and the peach trees forgot to blossom. Springtime came and all over the land blossoms came out and little birds sang on every tree.īut in the Selfish Giant’s garden it was still winter. “Didn’t we all used to have such fun playing there!” they said to each other. Sometimes they used to look at the high wall and talk about the beautiful garden inside. But the road was dusty with lots of hard stones and they didn’t like that one bit. Now the poor children had nowhere to play. He really was a very selfish and greedy Giant. 'I WILL EAT ANYONE WHO COMES INTO MY GARDEN!' it said in great big letters. So he built a high wall all round the garden and put up a big sign. “It’s my garden and nobody else’s,” said the Giant, “and nobody else can play in it but me, so there!” The children ran away as fast as they could. “What are you doing here?” he cried in his deep voice. He saw the children playing in his garden. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre and had stayed with him for seven years. They loved to have such a great place to play.īut one day the Giant came back. It had soft green grass and there were peach trees that had beautiful pink blossoms in the spring.īirds sat in the trees and sang such sweet songs that the children used to stop playing just to listen to them. A very long time ago a Giant had a lovely big garden.Ĭhildren used to go and play there on their way home from school.

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