Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree
Growing up in Western Samoa, young Pepe has many tutors. His friend Tagata teaches him street smarts. Colonial style schools offer a hidden cirriculum of hypocrisy and racism. His father Tauilopepe expounds the Christian trinity of God, Money and Success. And, most pervasive and subtle, American movies teach him the ways of crime and emotional illusion. But beyond them all stands Toasa, the old high chief who teaches Pepe his true name, and his duty to the continuity of life and his people: the ways of a descendant of the Samoan gods. In a modern world from which the gods have been exiled, Pepe works out his impossible destiny with a mischievous, rebellious spirit which earns him an ironic dignity.
Year: 1989
Genre: Drama, New Zealand Film
Country: NZ
Director: Martyn Sanderson
Starring: Faifua Amiga Jr, Richard Von Sturmer
Duration: 92 Minutes
Rating: M
7.2/10
Location in store: New Zealand Film
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