Whale Rider Movie Review

This Movie took place on a coast of New Zealand in 2002, where people believe that just men could be leader of village, one renegade men, called Paka, who was actually leader of this place, was looking for desperate for a boy who will be the new leader. Unfortunately the boy that was supposed to be leader died at birth, Paikea was born twin with this boy and she could survive, but her grandfather didn’t want her as leader because she was a girl and he need a boy as leader.
This movie shows the repression of the woman from old culture. And how insistent and fighter and capable are we the women from long time. Paikea learned in secret all the things that her grandfather tried to teach at the boy which he was training for leader. Nobody pass the test. Pikea did it.
Her grandfather didn’t recognized nothing until at the end when many whale were lying down around the beach and all people together with Paka couldn’t help to move the whale. She could alone to put safely all the whale, and there was that her grandfather realized that she was destined to be a leader of the village.
For me this movie at the beginning was a little bored, but after with Paikea actuation made the film more interesting. She had an extraordinary roll in the movie and her actuation was good. The grandfather’s behavior made me feel anxious in many occasions. And some episode with Paikea made me sad.