Familiar foreign cultural background

As a person who has inherited a certain cultural tradition, he always does not want this lineage to be lost in his own hands. So the Maori chief (the heroine's grandfather) in the film is trying to find a hero who can inherit Maori culture. But the granddaughter who is well versed in Maori culture is not what he thinks.

This has to remind me of the old rule of a certain ethnic group of martial arts in Chinese costume movies and TV dramas. However, this film is not entangled in the issue of patriarchal preference, but from the perspective of the family, revealing the embodiment of personal values, the collision of tradition and modernity. Find a balance to compromise.

The happy ending of the film is in line with the audience's mentality. The girl won the trust and respect of her grandfather, and her father returned to his hometown with his subsequent wife and participated in traditional Maori solidarity activities.

This film also confirms an old Chinese saying: family and prosperity.

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