Word: islandersã
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Paradoxically, the film itself exemplifies a modern commercialism intruding upon indigenous culture. It illustrates a fiercely independent people at once captivated and threatened by Western culture. Roughly ninety percent of the film’s cast was comprised of native islanders??€”many of whom have never seen a movie theater, let alone acted in a feature—and the incorporation of such a real, Rotuman presence lends the film a deeply raw, affecting richness. The movie plays like a kind of cultural window, presenting to the world a vision of life in the distant Pacific from...
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