Movie Review 6 Whele rider

I watched the movie “Whale Rider”. I saw this movie a 1 years ago. I watched this in the class of Cross-cultural understanding theory. It was great movie but I was sleeping at that time. So I was glad to watch it again.
This movie is New Zeeland movie. The main character is a Maori girl with the same name as a legendary brave man Piecare. However, her grandfather who was the head of a village wished a boy would be born. Because her father did not wanted Mayer in this village. So he wanted his grand son become the Mayer in there. I felt culture gap I knew that. The girl seems to born with a mysterious quality and a wonder. However, the stubborn grandfather cannot see the talent. She wanted him to recognize her, but he did not because she is a girl. One day, he was going to look for a successor from the boys of the village becoming 12 years old. However, nobody passed his examination. An examination is to fetch the necklace of the tooth of the whale which he threw into the sea. Nobody could but she could! Then a group of the whale was washed ashore on the beach by the bottom of the sea. He thought this to be a suggestion of the end of the Maori. Therefore he was going to put the back whales to the sea. But Piecare pacified a whale. And she ride on the one of them and went to the sea. She was save by the villagers. At last he recognize her successor.
It was very wonderful story. Did the grandfather change a trend of the male chauvinism? I do not understand it. However, he admitted that one's granddaughter was a reincarnation of the Piecare. Manners and customs and the tradition are important. However, I was glad to born in Japan.
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