ten canoes - a story about life ... and death

"One hundred and fifty spears, ten canoes, three wives... trouble"










I just watched ten canoes. A very powerful movie. It is about a story. Well 2 stories - it is a story within a story.

The story of the ancients told to a young man.
A story of how to live, how to behave.
It delves into what it is that makes up the people.
It is a story of the people.
It was simple yet complex.

It tells of the connection to the land, and in someways of the circle of life (and death) eg from the little fish in the waterhole, to a person, to return to the waterhole.

Of one with the land, of the law of the land.
The story was both parable and history.

It was captivating and begs to be taken further.

a story to teach ... to learn about a nearly forgotten culture ... to continue to understand the link to the land

...and the filming was truly amazing...

A film worth watching: Ten Canoes *****