Movie Review 6＊Whale Rider

This movie is about the Maori in New Zealand. There is a legend in a village that a brave ancestor man named “Paikea” arrived at this village, leading by a whale. This movie was difficult for me to understand because Maori words appeared many times. But it sounded interesting.
The main character in this movie is Paikea. She is persistent and never content unless she is the best. When she was forbidden from learning traditional song and dance, she learned them very hard, hiding from anyone else. The inhabitants in the village didn’t accept her at first, but at last she was accepted as the new matriarch. And her grandfather is Koro. He is a patriarch in the village at the time, but on the other hand he is kind to a her grandchild Paikea.
The beginning of this movie, Paikea, who was named from a brave man, was born. When she was born, her mother and a twin brother died. So her father Porourangi came apart from the village, and her grandfather felt anger and sad, because the twin brother who died should have become a successor. Therefore her grandfather couldn’t accept Paikea. When Porourangi came back to the village, Koro wanted him to become a successor, but he refused. At the same time, Paikea felt that she was not needed, so she was apart from the village once but came back soon because she heard voices from the sea, though Koro didn’t change his mind. He believed that the tribe was unhappy because she was born. So he opened school where boys could learn traditional song and dance. She continued practicing them secretly. When it was the test day to be a patriarch, no one could pass the test.
The ending of this movie, Koro found some whales on the beach when he went to school to see the school play. He and the inhabitants tried to help them, but they didn’t succeed. He felt it was the end of the tribe. But Paikea didn’t give up. She ran up to the whales and rode on them. Then all the whales came back into the sea, and she was riding on the back of the whales. Her grandmother showed Koro the evidence that she passed the test secretly. At that moment, he convinced that she was suitable to be the matriarch in the village. After she was rescued, everyone celebrated the birth of new matriarch.
I like this movie. The scenes were very beautiful and I could know new things. Next spring, I am going to go abroad in Australia, so I want to study aborigine, language and so on.

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