RM Movie Club #4: Once Were Warriors

[Kaius]

Or you guys could just watch this one....

Sorry man. Is it on Netflix?

[Rangi Guy]

Or you guys could just watch this one....

Sorry man. Is it on Netflix?

No idea - Netflix isn't worth getting here

[lennytheweedwhacker]

rangi, i opened the link to this one and just to get a feel i selected a few random scenes and in each one a character was singing...is this a musical?

[Rangi Guy]

rangi, i opened the link to this one and just to get a feel i selected a few random scenes and in each one a character was singing...is this a musical?

This would give La La Land a run for its money!

[LetMeSleep]

rangi, i opened the link to this one and just to get a feel i selected a few random scenes and in each one a character was singing...is this a musical?

This would give La La Land a run for its money!

It's no Trolls.

[Mother]

I'm late to the party but just spotted this............I've seen this movie 3 or 4 times, most recently about 6 weeks ago.........and have such a love/hate relationship with it but found it to be realistic in it's portrayal of the socio-economics of some of the Maori culture. The scene where Jake has a win (can't remember all the deeets), thinks he's a millionaire and blows the lot, is very real and I've seen it played out in different real life forms over the years.

The love/hate bit is due to the rape and suicide of Grace, who is one of the more likable and intelligent characters of the movie..... it has stayed with me ever since I first watched it many years ago. When it popped up on TV again and Hubby decided it was what we were watching, I found myself cringing and feeling devastated in anticipation of what was to come but unable to stop watching. It is definitely compelling viewing.......... I have had to put up with years of "go and tidy yourself up Woman" and "go and cook me some fucking eggs"....

[Higgs]

Sorry to hear that you've gone through similar shit Mother.

I had occassion to watch this again a few weeks ago, I forgot how harrowing and brutal it was.

I found it interesting to see Jake's anger and his refusal to grow up or change. In the end scenes at the pub with his family leaving he was behaving almost as if he was a small child having a tantrum because he didn't get his way. That choice of doing nothing to change a bad situation but staying angry at everyone is interesting, a scenario played out across many cultures across the world.

The oldest son's joining of the face-tattooed gang for want of simple inclusion and a family that he sees as caring about him was telling. And the loss of innocence with Grace was heartbreaking, the scene where her "boyfriend" in the dead car tried to give her a simple kiss, and her reaction to that, was so sad. Having lived in some remote locations and seen the workings of some of our native communities first hand, that idea of the most basic of children's discoveries, the simple joys of growing up being taken away and just unavailable to such kids is very real and very very sad.

As is youth suicide. Possibly the single biggest issue (or perhaps symptom of other issues) facing regional Australia's indigenous society. Talk about taking away the joys of growing up - there's no more certain way.

Even that Beth was unable to make Boogie's court date because Jake had beathen her up so badly, resulting in her son being removed from the family. That idea that so much of what occurs, so many of the bad things that happen, are effectively made worse, the outcomes harder, the penalties harsher, in large part because of people's own actions. The idea that in order to move forward, to get out of a hole, to overcome, a society has to help itself and act in a way that will make positive change. Or, you can blow your dough, have another party, beat shit up and not worry about it. But you be sure to be angry about it.

I get that this is an over-simplification and that such social issues are big and complex things, but I think this film was in part looking at the lack of change that is daily life for so many.

Is there hope for Beth and family? Who knows, maybe. There is culture and history out there, and Beth chose to go back to it. To bad it took the loss of the one clean and beautiful thing in her family to get her there though.

Great film - thanks for reminding me of it Rangi.

[Simple Torture]

This thread haunts me every time I visit the forum. WHOSE FUCKING TURN IS IT?

[Simple Torture]

I'm going to make another thread if ya'll motherfuckers don't step up.

[E.H. Ruddock]

IT IS MY TURN.

Fuck it, I'll probably do the Wave since it is on Netflix

[The Argonaut]

Has this been stickied the whole time?

[Simple Torture]

I believe absolutely nothing you say, ruddo.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I believe absolutely nothing you say, ruddo.

:/

[Rangi Guy]

I can't believe that like only 4 of you watched this....

[BurtReynolds]

Just fucking go, ruddo

[The Argonaut]

Making the decision of which movie to pick has been stressing ruddo out since Christmas.

[Simple Torture]

Has this been stickied the whole time?

In the forum and in my dreams every night.

If ruddo doesn't want to go, then whoever's next should just pick.

::checks list, sees that it's dev::

God fucking damnit.

[The Argonaut]

dev has good taste

[Simple Torture]

Has nothing to do with taste. I just fully expect him to treat this as performance art, just as ruddo is treating it as a way to get back at all of us for various ranking and re-tracking threads.

[The Argonaut]

Has nothing to do with taste. I just fully expect him to treat this as performance art, just as ruddo is treating it as a way to get back at all of us for various ranking and re-tracking threads.

dev would've turned us on to some cool shit. And rudd may not be fucking with us. He may be just too nervous of a person to make up his mind about what to pick.