Review of Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag (2011) by Bill C — 12 Feb 2013
A stunning reminder of the universality of colonialism and its bloody toll on the earth's indigenous peoples. Here, the pre-WW2 Japanese economic juggernaut inflicts its brutality on the last animist mountain tribes of Taiwan, the Atayal.
Director Te-Sheng Wei portrays the Seediq clanswomen in understated counterpoint. Head-hunting warriors dispatch their colonial masters to an appropriate hell ( and themselves pass gloriously into the after life ); the fate of the women and children breaks our hearts !
Lin Yuanjie (AKA Umin Walis) as the young machine-gun wielding child soldier Pawan Nawi steals the second half of the film.
This review of Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag (2011) was written by Bill C on 12 Feb 2013.
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag has generally received positive reviews.
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