Whale Rider

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE7-_Z03Aw4

What a great movie.

Anyone else seen this?

Yes, beautiful film. Haven't read the book though.

I have read the book will see the movie soon

Own it, have yet to watch it. Heard it's great.

Always thought this would be a great name for a porno featuring reallty obese women.

driving ms daisy? 😖hifty:

hate this movie. had to watch it in at least one of my classes every year after it came out

My girllfriend found it and asked me to watch it with her. I enjoyed it.

I will praise the movie for portraying and capturing some of the spirit of the traditional Chinese martial arts. Ip Man extols in the prison scene, “Chinese martial arts is based on Confucianism – (you should treat others as you yourself would like to be treated) – that is why there is Wu De – martial virtue. Perfection of technique alone as in martial skill or power will just lead you to bully others.”

In my opinion, this is why today’s martial arts world suffers from infighting and petty rivalry. One is not complete… unless one can be complete in the art, in the mind, spirit and body, culture and way. It’s probably a message that got lost in Ip Man’s teachings.

The climax of the film is the best thing in the film I think. The film's climax involves a supernatural crisis that starts off as spectacle but quickly becomes about the impact of the event on the community, and just as soon as that happens, it adeptly drifts back into the realm of fantasy and legend. Whale Rider does this so often and so exceedingly well that it has the power to floor. It's a wonderful, uplifting film about the healing power of communal growth and adaptation.

One of the most critically acclaimed films charm and 2003, New Zealand, Whale Rider hit effectively integrate traditional Maori timely "girl power ", a vibrant new millennium. Whale Rider is a 2002 drama film director Niki Caro New Zealand, under the same name novel by Witi Ihimaera.