Once were warriors

Hi! everybody , today it´s time to write about a film,  well  I don´t have a good memory for films but exist one that  I saw  in my antropology´s course in bachillerato and I think that it could be interesting for you.

"Once were warriors"it´s a film based in a bestseller  book writed by Allan Duff,  that show us  the story about the relations of New Zealand´s people  and the diference between two realities.

On one hand we can see  the native people called Maories whohave a special cosmovision about the life,
 with  all his  rituals and  customs and on the other hand  the film shows the urban reality with an occidental vision, but the most important topic that the writer and director  can explain to the espectators it´s how these diferent point of view about the life  are united in a poor new zeland´s family.

This  family is composed by  a marriage with kids, the mom is an important native that broke the rules of his culture because she married with a poor man , this situation forced her to lost  all the respect from his clan and leave to the city with his new husband, but the life in the city it wasn´t easy for she and his childrens, the reasons  of this includes that they hadn´t money , the man of the family  it was an alcoholic  fan of  the partys  and above all he was very violent with the people that love him. Also this history  tell a story about the oldest  child that represent the fusion between two worlds , and how  the influence of these generated a bad boy , who was part of a band where all the members have a representative maori´s tattoo.

I hope that you can  have fun with this film and a reflection about the conflict between two diferent cultures living  in the same place.

see you  my friends ;)

xoxo