The New Zealand Outsiders

gavin6942

A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

There is always a story to be told about the natives versus the colonialists. Americans can tell the story of the Native Americans (or Indians), Australians have the aborigines, and as we see here the New Zealanders have the Maori people. This is a story that can be told in either an archetypal way or more specifically. (This film does a bit of both.) But we also have internal conflict. This is not just us versus them, but also us versus us. And then you have an even worse situation. When the minority is against the minority, who do you turn to? By turning to the majority, you run the risk of only bringing shame on your own people.

score 6/10

gavin6942 20 May 2015

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