Whale Rider Sociology

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The movie whale rider is a 2002 New Zealand- German family drama movie directed by Niki Caro. The movie is inspired by a book of the same name by Witi Ihimaera. The movie takes place in present day New-Zealand and focuses around Pai, a twelve year old Maori girl who desires to be the next chief of her tribe, but the current tribe chief and her grandfather Koro opposes the idea of a girl ever becoming a chief and undermines all her achievement. The movie revolves around Pai who lost her mother and twin brother during birth. We learn that her father is a photographer and migrated to Germany to live his passion, leaving her to be raised by her grandparents. We observe that Pai becomes attached to his grandfather Koro and loves him more than anything in this world and wants to become the next chief of the tribe to make him proud, although Koro loves her, he aggressively opposes this idea. He questions her achievement and doubts her abilities all on the basis that she is only a girl. Pai, like his …show more content…

Even in the modern society woman are constantly looked down. A quick comparison the average wage of a man and a woman shows that woman are still paid lower wages for the same amount of work. To conclude, Whale Rider is one of those movies that might not attract a wider audience, but that doesn’t make it bad and it’s apparent that it didn’t aim for that. It is the kind of movie that attracts few but loyal viewers who will have it imprinted in their minds for the rest of their life after just one viewing. It manages to perfectly mix spiritual elements with a current global issue to which most persons can relate. Through the character of Pai Whale Rider tries to tell us that if given the chance woman too are capable of the same things that man

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