Review of In a Savage Land (1999) by Adele T — 16 Dec 2010
I liked this movie. It's a fascinating (and surprisingly rather un-PC) look at life and race relations in what was still colonial times. The white anthropologists are in New Guinea to study a local native tribe and the whole portrayal of the whites on the island is how you would expect colonial whites to have really behaved.
It's set at the outbreak of WW2, and there's no cultural egalitarianism in this movie. There's romance, conflict, a dose of feminism, and eventually the Japanese invade the island and the whites flee.
This review of In a Savage Land (1999) was written by Adele T on 16 Dec 2010.
In a Savage Land has generally received mixed reviews.
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