Sione's Wedding and Sione's 2 is about Samoan boys and how
they behave in their community. The first movie is about Sione getting married
and the boys are on a mission to find dates for the wedding as instructed by
their minister. The second movie is about Sione's death and the boys are on the
hunt for one of their friends.
It is quite
interesting to watch these grown men behave like teenagers by wrecking people's
wedding and other functions. One
important thing our group noticed when we were preparing for the seminar was
the way these characters behaved in front of the minister of their church. They
referred to the minister as "your holiness" "your honor
it shows their strong sense of religion by respecting the elders in the
community. They even bowed their head while talking to the minister. Also in the movie when the boys enter the
house they remove their shoes and go inside the house. This is done out of
respect to the elders and the house owners.
The writers of the movie have brought out this stereo typical
act of Samoan's as a group of loud and immature guys in the four main
characters, however, they also have other Samoan male characters in the movie
to show that stereotyping is probably not the right way to go as not everyone
is the same.
The role of women is also quite important as in the first
movie the minister bans the four boys from attending the wedding, but once
Albert convinces the minister to let them come if they have dates, he agrees
quickly. This shows that women bring out the best in these men and keep them
calm and stops them from misbehaving.
Togetherness within the community is also shown quite often
in these two movies. One can immediately see the unity between the people of
the Samoan community when the four boys are called in to speak to the minister,
all the people from their community are present. Even when the minister lays
the punishment on them, he says "me and my flock" stating that this
was a joint decision. This is also demonstrated in the second movie when Sione
dies and Paul who is possibly responsible for his death goes missing, everyone
starts getting worried about his disappearance and the minister once again
orders the boys to go look for him.
Another time the tight unity is shown is when we learn that Sione has
been having affairs while being married and towards the end Paul is speaking to
one of Sione's girlfriends explaining to her why she shouldn't go to his
funeral as this would upset so many people. Even though the boys knew Sione was
wrong, they still had the family's best interest at heart and didn't tell
anyone about those affairs.
Overall I
think they have done a great job at providing good entertainment by making fun
and laughing at themselves.
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