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Blaise 2022-01-05 08:02:29

In fact, it should be regarded as a warm family movie, but it has a unique ethnic and cultural background, so it has a different meaning to me.
The plot is no longer said, maybe the reason why it is written is to attract the attention of the surrounding companions. After all, the movies that take the relationship between the elderly and the children as the protagonists are my favorites ("Paradise Cinema", "Butterfly", and "Spring of the Cow Herding Class"...).
It may be a bit too much to say that it is a feminist film, but for me it is at least a film about women fighting for egalitarianism.

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  • Lia 2022-01-05 08:02:29

    Please do not portray this movie as a superficial anti-traditional, anti-patriarchal movie. Because the heroine in the movie did not express any popular behaviors that are in direct opposition to traditional patriarchy. The heroine has never hated her grandfather or abandoned her father. It is through her love and belief that she has never wavered. Connected everyone around me. At the end, it was the heroine who proved the tradition and continued the myth of her own nation. It is said to people that in the end the heroine "won" the respect and love of her grandfather, but it is not. It was the gentle love of the heroine who finally saved the grandfather who was in desperate situation like the old man leading a whale stranded on the beach. What is really important in this film is to describe women's tenderness and the broad minds of the sea, as well as their unyielding beliefs. This film can be regarded as a truly outstanding female film model.

  • Hans 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    When I see the sea and whales, I want to cry, what's wrong with me, is my head lowered?

Whale Rider quotes

  • Paikea: My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs.

  • Koro: [from trailer] When she was born, that's when things went wrong for us.