Backbencher

Ten Canoes was a very entertaining story about an aboriginal community. The beginning is quite confusing because it is a story about a story. It begins with with a young man named Diendae and he was in love with his brothers wife; everyone in the village knows it and an elder decides to tell him a story so he can live a better life. One day a stranger came to the village and they thought he was involved in black magic. Soon after one of the wives of Diendae's brother went missing and her husband thought the stranger must have stolen her. Soon after, Diendae's brother spots the stranger again and decides to kill him. This causes turmoil between the tribes and they decide to settle it by letting men from the other tribe through spears at Diendae and his brother until one of them was hit. Diendae's brother gets hit and soon dies; soon after, the wife that disappeared returns and finds out her husband has died and she now belongs to Diendae.

I think the purpose of this story is to teach patience. It was a very good movie and was not exactly what I was expecting. The title didn't really have anything to due with the movie and the aborigines were more like us than I thought they would be. I found it funny how they joked just like we due and everyone had obsessions just like we due. Overall I really enjoyed the movie and it opened my eyes, even a little more, about the history of Australia.