Thursday, October 24, 2013

Sione's Wedding and Sione's 2

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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