Verwickelt das sehr unterschiedliche Leben dreier Maori-Mädchen, Cousinen, durch turbulente Jahrzehnte, nachdem eine von ihnen ihrer Familie weggenommen und in einem Waisenhaus aufgezogen wi... Alles lesenVerwickelt das sehr unterschiedliche Leben dreier Maori-Mädchen, Cousinen, durch turbulente Jahrzehnte, nachdem eine von ihnen ihrer Familie weggenommen und in einem Waisenhaus aufgezogen wird.Verwickelt das sehr unterschiedliche Leben dreier Maori-Mädchen, Cousinen, durch turbulente Jahrzehnte, nachdem eine von ihnen ihrer Familie weggenommen und in einem Waisenhaus aufgezogen wird.
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This was one of the most touching, and yet difficult to watch films I've seen in a long time. It makes me think long and hard about the pain, suffering, and tremendous damage my colonial ancestors caused to indigenous people all around the world.
This is a hard film to watch at times, but I felt in showing stories that happened and are still happening to Indigenous people and communities, it was to help deniers and minimizers to wake-up to the truth, and encourage those working for positive change and better intercultural respect and cooperation to continue despite the racism and sexism persisting in society due to historical amnesia, Eurocentric education, and apathy.
Apologies and acknowledgement of colonial and contemporary crimes against Indigenous people are not enough without honesty and true structural, educational and inter-community changes. For Indigenous peoples like the Maori, the effects of genocide and ethnocide that began in colonial times continues today. The effects are within both the individuals and their communities: trauma of all kinds, loss of identity, cultures, land, Self. Yet another horrible fact is the cycle of abuse and trauma against them exacerbated crimes within Indigenous communities, against each other, with children especially affected.
Mostly especially, from the past to present, the treatment of Indigenous girls and women was/is especially horrific, yet minimized and often silenced. This film both subtly and directly shows the psychological, spiritual and physical torment inflicted by peoples of European descent in their Eurocentric efforts to purify "Others", particularly through "Christianity", the beliefs and edicts of which were rewritten to serve the desires of European men to retain unchallenged power and invent supposed superiority. And remember, they first betrayed, tortured and killed their own non-Christian peers, particularly women, before invading and inflicting terror worldwide. It's all an ugly cycle that needs ending, so healing can begin for all.
Apologies and acknowledgement of colonial and contemporary crimes against Indigenous people are not enough without honesty and true structural, educational and inter-community changes. For Indigenous peoples like the Maori, the effects of genocide and ethnocide that began in colonial times continues today. The effects are within both the individuals and their communities: trauma of all kinds, loss of identity, cultures, land, Self. Yet another horrible fact is the cycle of abuse and trauma against them exacerbated crimes within Indigenous communities, against each other, with children especially affected.
Mostly especially, from the past to present, the treatment of Indigenous girls and women was/is especially horrific, yet minimized and often silenced. This film both subtly and directly shows the psychological, spiritual and physical torment inflicted by peoples of European descent in their Eurocentric efforts to purify "Others", particularly through "Christianity", the beliefs and edicts of which were rewritten to serve the desires of European men to retain unchallenged power and invent supposed superiority. And remember, they first betrayed, tortured and killed their own non-Christian peers, particularly women, before invading and inflicting terror worldwide. It's all an ugly cycle that needs ending, so healing can begin for all.
A film with a lot of heart (and a lot of plot holes).
Worth seeing.
Perhaps it needed a bit more time / budget.
Worth seeing.
Perhaps it needed a bit more time / budget.
Having lived in NZ from 1960 I realised I knew very little of Maori and what they had to cope with.
The movie made me sad, mad and confronted!
The movie made me sad, mad and confronted!
Honestly the most beautiful film I've seen in years. At the end I'd say over a third of the cinema was crying. What a powerful story!
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- WissenswertesThere is a title at the end dedicating the film to Merata Mita, Irihapeti Ramsden and Nancy Brunning, three inspirational, pioneering Maori women. Mita intended to turn Patricia Grace's novel into a film when she died in 2010.
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- 1 Std. 38 Min.(98 min)
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