Intentionally or unintentionally the writer and producer of this book/film made something that is far deeper than i see in reviews here or anywhere else. It is not about the value of the modern world. It is not about emancipation. It is not about whether traditions should remain or not. It is about change, rapid change and what impact these changes have on people.
We are taught to believe that we are living in a world with increasing multi-culture. We are not. Instead all we are creating is global monoculture at an incredible high speed. This impacts everybody living in this day and age. It leads to misunderstanding to say the least between sexes and generations even and increases unhappiness globally. It invokes a sense of not belonging and being lost.
We have traded the hard to bridge differences between races, 'tribes', different cultures for hard to bridge differences between sexes and generations, leading to families falling apart. Why?
This movie is about that. The grandfather holding true to the beliefs he was raised with, that feels he is a failure and doesn't want to live anymore when he realizes that. His wife (the boss in the house) that goes when he gets at that point. The refusal of his firstborn son, that leaves to Germany even, is unhappy. His brother unhappy. Paikea unhappy, she shouldn't have been born or should have been a boy, caught between the lure of the modern world and the love and respect for her grandfather. She chooses her grandfather, the tradition, the family and her race / people. But what will be in 30 years, when this culture as so many before and during are being pressured more into this globalist nightmare? Will Paikea be happy when she realizes at age 40 or 50 that the dreams she had, the things she believed in, the traditions are falsified by modern times, diluted by her half sister or brother and the German cultures way? Will there be another whale rider made in 2040, the final one, cause no culture will survive?
That is what this movie is about.
I cannot say why this personally hits me, but trust me that this mechanism kills as many as tribal wars would have done.
So yes, go see it, cause 50 years from now, there won't be any new material to make a movie like this.
A penny in your pocket Suitcase in your hand They won't get you very far Now you're a 21st century man
We are taught to believe that we are living in a world with increasing multi-culture. We are not. Instead all we are creating is global monoculture at an incredible high speed. This impacts everybody living in this day and age. It leads to misunderstanding to say the least between sexes and generations even and increases unhappiness globally. It invokes a sense of not belonging and being lost.
We have traded the hard to bridge differences between races, 'tribes', different cultures for hard to bridge differences between sexes and generations, leading to families falling apart. Why?
This movie is about that. The grandfather holding true to the beliefs he was raised with, that feels he is a failure and doesn't want to live anymore when he realizes that. His wife (the boss in the house) that goes when he gets at that point. The refusal of his firstborn son, that leaves to Germany even, is unhappy. His brother unhappy. Paikea unhappy, she shouldn't have been born or should have been a boy, caught between the lure of the modern world and the love and respect for her grandfather. She chooses her grandfather, the tradition, the family and her race / people. But what will be in 30 years, when this culture as so many before and during are being pressured more into this globalist nightmare? Will Paikea be happy when she realizes at age 40 or 50 that the dreams she had, the things she believed in, the traditions are falsified by modern times, diluted by her half sister or brother and the German cultures way? Will there be another whale rider made in 2040, the final one, cause no culture will survive?
That is what this movie is about.
I cannot say why this personally hits me, but trust me that this mechanism kills as many as tribal wars would have done.
So yes, go see it, cause 50 years from now, there won't be any new material to make a movie like this.
A penny in your pocket Suitcase in your hand They won't get you very far Now you're a 21st century man
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