Backbencher

The movie UTU is about the Maori wars with the English. The movie’s main character is a Maori man who was a British scout. While he is away helping the British, his village is attacked by other British forces and everyone is killed. When he returns to his village he finds everyone dead and becomes very angry. He kills the British soldier that is with him and decides to get revenge against the British. He has his face tattooed with a tribal pattern and it is a type of ritual scaring I think. He begins to get his revenge by killing a pastor in front of his own congregation. He beheads the pastor in front of everyone. He then continues to take revenge on the British. He raids a house and kills a woman. The woman’s husband then seeks revenge against him and begins to try to track him down. He is also be followed by other British as well. He is eventually caught and is put on trial. They find him guilty and he is executed. The movie UTU was a pretty good movie. I think it was one of the better movies I saw for this class and I really liked how it showed some of the history, both of the Maori with the facial tattooing and the British. It did a nice job of showing what life would have been like at the time and although it didn’t have the best acting it was still a very good movie.