Have since recovered after White Sunday where I noticed that there were far less children and families attending and also watched the New Zealand movie 'Mahana' about a Maori family with a patriarchal leader who rules with an iron fist played by Temurera Morrison.
It's set in the 1950's and is a retelling of one of Witi Ihimaera's books 'Bulibusha', who happens to be one of my fave Maori authors. I read the book many years ago and enjoyed his style of storytelling which often deals with issues with Maori land, culture and European clashes etc.
The ending of the movie was really interesting as it reminded me of some Samoan patriarchal male traits that often splits families apart i.e. having my way or the highway and when families are put under that kind of stress the children usually suffer and there are almost irreconcilable differences that are still not resolved after the death of the patriarch.
It's definitely a movie worth watching and interesting to watch the fave director, Lee Tamihori, in action as he directed the movie and some of the interesting scenes that took place like two Maori families racing to church in their cars to get to get to a funeral.
Have a neat week out there...
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