Sunday, June 26, 2005
ONCE WERE WARRIORS
Based on the recommendation by one of my supporters, I watched the movie "Once Were Warriors", a movie made in 1994 set in urban Auckland, New Zealand. It's a "reality" story, dealing with issues of alcohol-induced family abuse, gangs, drugs and poverty housing. Though it was fiction, I believe that it captures the reality of many families that are caught in the poverty cycle, where the many mouths to feed are reliant on instable income streams. And not only for families in urban New Zealand, but anywhere. What was touching was the emancipation of this one family through the return to its Maori (the indigenous people group in New Zealand) roots. I highly recommend this movie (it has some familiar faces, like Jango Fett from Attack Of The Clones).
# posted by Duffshot @ 3:20 PM 
