Backbencher

The movie The Last Wave was a good movie, although it was kind of hard to follow at certain points. The movie started out in a small town. A man is painting and there are children playing outside when it begins to rain very heavily. The rain soon changes to very large hail and everyone is inside. David is then first seen and he ends up being the main character in the film. He is a lawyer and is doing a case involving the stealing of ancient Aboriginal artifacts and a murder that is linked to the theft. David begins to have dreams about water and drowning. He has trouble trying to defend the five Aboriginal men who are on trial because they refuse to talk to him. At the end of the movie, David is taken to a spot where there are murals painted on the walls depicting what had already happened and what was going to happen. The mural showed a huge tidal wave hitting. David leaves and ends up on the beach where he is met by the wave he had seen in the painting. I felt this was a very good movie. I really liked how they incorporated the Maori culture into the story and how they movie kind of built up to the end with his dreams predicting the ending. The movie really doesn’t tell you what ends up happening with the wave, but I think it is obvious what happens.