... - a family in crisis. Although the story takes place in New Zealand, and the characters portray an urban Maori native family, many of the scenarios, situations and characteristics that are presented in the film are similar to our own country and culture. Almost each theme has its opposite relevant in the film. Such as love/hate and life/death which are two that ... are present throughout the film. Each of the characters deals differently with the difficult time their family is facing. The father turns to alcohol, the eldest son turns to his culture and joins a gang, the ... middle son ...

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... , but nothing further but masses of travel guides in which the Maori were rarely mentioned. So I tried the next source of knowledge, the Internet where I found various homepages about this theme. Many of these pages are run by Maori tribes, who want to inform about themselves and their history. On the whole, this work is mainly a product of a vast Internet research ... of each tribesman depended on his ancestry, that's why genealogy for Maori was very important and remained so till today. The position of the chieftain was inherited from father to son. It was him who decided what the trib...

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• Grade Level: High School