Question's about the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's"...?

Question

-What is the meaning of the lyrics moon river?
-And i didn't really understand the dialogue.

Paul Varjak: You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

- Why does she say she is a wild thing???

Answer 1

She says she's a wild thing, like a wild animal or plant. Something that cannot be caged or tended like a domestic house cat or a houseplant. She cannot (will not) conform to the standards set by society.

Answer 2

The lyrics to Moon River are about reaching the unattainable:

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

The Holly Golightly of the film is NOT exactly the Holly Golightly that Truman Capote wrote. The one in the film depicts a woman so determined to be free that her very freedom is a sort of prison.

Answer 3

because she acts like she is so free, but really she isn't, she puts herself in a cage.