The image is true as long as it is untouched by the eye. As soon as it's seen it looses it's meaning.
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Whale Rider IMDB
First, a story about initiation and coming of age, about predetermination and destiny, and about changing the rules without throwing them overboard.
Moving slowly on a straight path, yet charming and beautiful. It draws it's power from the performance of the 13 year old Keisha Castle Hughes, the New Zeeland landscape, the exotics of exploring the rules and laws of an ancient society, and the authors not forgetting that serious does neither forbid nor require a smile.
The finale would be overdone, if the movie wouldn't have the decency to withdraw from it's characters just in time for making the happy end possible, without preaching us some philosophy we have to follow.
So, it's a recommendable movie, not very surprising, but very good at what it is.
Barring the question: How much importance has culture and tradition for human life. One might say it's always arbitrary and usually ridiculous and outdated. The discussion is over here if you look for the rationale, the what-for, yet it didn't even touch the heart of culture, and of preserving culture.
Culture and tradition can, at least, be a guidance when times are rough, when momentary goals and motivations fall apart. Not to solve your problems or make your life easier , but to live on your life with the respect to others that a group of people needs to survive.
Rigidness of culture, the immutability, is the biggest crux and yet still the strongest link of traditional cultures, surviving the novelty of the day.
First, a story about initiation and coming of age, about predetermination and destiny, and about changing the rules without throwing them overboard.
Moving slowly on a straight path, yet charming and beautiful. It draws it's power from the performance of the 13 year old Keisha Castle Hughes, the New Zeeland landscape, the exotics of exploring the rules and laws of an ancient society, and the authors not forgetting that serious does neither forbid nor require a smile.
The finale would be overdone, if the movie wouldn't have the decency to withdraw from it's characters just in time for making the happy end possible, without preaching us some philosophy we have to follow.
So, it's a recommendable movie, not very surprising, but very good at what it is.
Barring the question: How much importance has culture and tradition for human life. One might say it's always arbitrary and usually ridiculous and outdated. The discussion is over here if you look for the rationale, the what-for, yet it didn't even touch the heart of culture, and of preserving culture.
Culture and tradition can, at least, be a guidance when times are rough, when momentary goals and motivations fall apart. Not to solve your problems or make your life easier , but to live on your life with the respect to others that a group of people needs to survive.
Rigidness of culture, the immutability, is the biggest crux and yet still the strongest link of traditional cultures, surviving the novelty of the day.
Hi
OK, this is new for me, welcome to my first blog, yadda yadda.
I decided to move my very subjective, very useless movie ramblings (as someone put it nicely: mostly "european artsy-fartsy") to a blog. Feels better than moving around HTML pages after a late nite movie. If I like it, I'll add other stuff, too - otherwise, well, yet another dead blogger account.
OK, this is new for me, welcome to my first blog, yadda yadda.
I decided to move my very subjective, very useless movie ramblings (as someone put it nicely: mostly "european artsy-fartsy") to a blog. Feels better than moving around HTML pages after a late nite movie. If I like it, I'll add other stuff, too - otherwise, well, yet another dead blogger account.
