She is first seen chased by Muntz's dogs while Dug notices the bird being chased. Kevin makes very brief appearances in this short. When Muntz and his dogs discover that Carl and Russell are with Kevin, which is the rare bird Muntz must capture, he and his dogs capture her and put her in a large cage in the Spirit of Adventure dirigible in which Carl and Russell were able to rescue her and escape from Charles Muntz before he captures her.īy the end of the movie, Kevin reunites with her three babies as Carl gives Kevin and her three babies his cane as a gift, as Carl and Russell leave Paradise Falls bidding a farewell to Kevin and her offspring. Russell continues to refer to her as Kevin after that.Īpparently, Kevin also likes chocolate as she keeps trying to take a bite out of Russell's chocolate bar and can be lured using chocolate (which is a running gag throughout the film). Russell, who finds the bird along the way, immediately decides to name it "Kevin", though it is revealed that Kevin is actually a female. However, Kevin managed to evade capture for an unknown number of years due to the fact that her home is situated in a labyrinth that Muntz dare not enter and that many of his dogs had gotten lost in. Muntz has been searching for many years after scientists accuse Muntz that the skeleton he revealed was not a real skeleton of the "Monster of Paradise Falls" (despite the fact that the monster exists) so he sets off to find and capture the rare and elusive bird as a promise. Kevin is a giant bird of the species that Charles F. Strangely, she also has a taste for chocolate. She is also very curious, as seen when she tried eating balloons and Carl's cane. However, she can be playful and affectionate, such as gently tossing Russell into the air and nuzzling him affectionately, or mimicking Carl when he tried to shoo her away. Like most animals, she is friendly to those who have been friendly to her, but she will act hostile when she felt threatened, such as screeching at Carl Fredricksen when they first met, and she openly tried to attack Dug, pinning him down and screeching at him, her feathers rising in agitation. As her portrait of the family unfolds with the help of Isaiah's creative input, curiosity and zest for life, so do Ackerman's own feelings about the responsibilities of Canadians to raise all children as our best investment in the nation's future.Despite not being able to talk, Kevin has a very strong personality. Ackerman spent 2 years with Isaiah and his family. More than anything, they want Isaiah and his siblings to have access to opportunities they never had. His parents struggle to overcome a legacy of stereotypes, abuse and dysfunction. Isaiah knows he's been categorized as "less fortunate," and his short life has seen more than his share of social workers, food banks and police interventions. 20 years after the House of Commons promised to eliminate poverty among Canadian children, 8-year-old Isaiah is trying hard to grow up healthy, smart and well adjusted despite the odds stacked against him. In this personal documentary, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Nance Ackerman invites us into the lives of a determined family for a profound experience of child poverty in one of the richest countries in the world.
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