{"product_id":"24941","title":"Whale Rider (DVD)","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e🔴\u003c\/b\u003e Condition - \u003cb\u003eVery Good 🔴\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis film is set in a small Maori community, and expressed in terms of Maori traditions and legends, but it is a story that could have been set in many places and times, and expressed in terms of many cultures. The story is about family, and caring, and sexism, and change, and rejection.\u003cbr\u003ePaikea is the name of a man out of legend the original chief of a Maori tribe who arrived in Aotearoa (New Zealand) riding on the back of a whale he was the Whale Rider. Koro (Rawiri Paratene) is his direct descendant: the first-born son of a first-born son of a... Koro's  first-born son Porourangi (Cliff Curtis) is expected to have a first-born son, to carry on the line. But his wife dies in child-birth, and  one of the twins she was giving birth to dies too. The boy twin dies, leaving the girl. The last word his wife says as she dies is 'Paikea', so he names the girl Paikea, much to the horror of his father. Then he leaves. Eleven years later, Paikea (Keisha Castle- Hughes) is living with her grandparents, Koro and Nanny Flowers (Vicky Haughton).\u003cbr\u003eKoro is chief, but his son is a disappointment he spends most of his time overseas, giving exhibitions of his carvings (he's a recognised sculptor, not that Koro  respects this path). Koro decides that it is time he taught the first-born boys in the old ways, preparing for one of them to be chief. To a man so bound in the old ways, it is inconceivable that a girl should learn the concerns of a chief. Paikea doesn't see it that way she responds to an inner urging to learn, even though it means defying her grandfather, her chief. Her grandmother, although a quiet woman, is at least as stubborn as the old man, and encourages her, even suggesting who she should go to to learn the way of the taiaha (the Maori wooden weapon that is part sword, part stick).\u003cbr\u003eKoro doesn't say it, but he is grasping at the desperate hope that one of the boys will be the great leader who will rescue his people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXTRA FEATURES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearls Books n Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45826140995775,"sku":"24941","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5552\/0703\/files\/whalerider2.jpg?v=1783467833","url":"https:\/\/pearlsbooksfnq.com\/products\/24941","provider":"Pearls Books n Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}