I don't feel sympathetic towards any character in this movie. Characters created for the indigenous people feel superficial. Their tie to their land and ancestors is something I can make up without knowing a whole lot or anything about them and stereotypical and maybe that's all true but I'd want a more nuanced or just different perspective if someone decides to make a movie that touches upon that culture, however remotely.
Colonialism is brutal. I understand that's not the only or main point of the movie. And maybe there's no other to show brutality other than to make a movie that's simply brutal to get through. I can't help but compare this movie to 'Pan's Labyrinth' another movie about the brutality inflicted on innocent people by an egomaniac. But the ingenuity of that writer/director made me want to believe, at the end of that movie, the fairy tale that the young protagonist of the movie believed in. While at the end of this movie, I only wish I had not wasted 2 hours of my life watching it.
Colonialism is brutal. I understand that's not the only or main point of the movie. And maybe there's no other to show brutality other than to make a movie that's simply brutal to get through. I can't help but compare this movie to 'Pan's Labyrinth' another movie about the brutality inflicted on innocent people by an egomaniac. But the ingenuity of that writer/director made me want to believe, at the end of that movie, the fairy tale that the young protagonist of the movie believed in. While at the end of this movie, I only wish I had not wasted 2 hours of my life watching it.
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