Review of Waikiki

Waikiki (2020)
7/10
Haunting
14 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
So freaking angry as IMdB has trashed my review 3 friggin' times while I broke away to look up actor names! I've wanted to find this film online since I heard about it on NPR in 2020. It wasn't anything what I expected; it was worse. Kea is a woman so ripped apart from her own land she goes mental. I saw this movie only through a 12-hour window provided by my sponsorship of the National Museum of the American Indian. A (liberal) co-worker told me this movie was complete nonsense. There was no reason to preach about what native Hawaiians endure when an Mexican migrant woman in California goes through the same abuse. Well, a Mexican woman in CA isn't held up as a tourist attraction inside her own land where the only jobs she can get are ones in the tourist industry which barely considers her above an ornament of "savage" life made civilized. I've read of this same treatment in "National Geographic" just last year in an article about how indigenous Hawaiians are losing their culture , so this isn't one liberal director crying out. Honestly, I don't know how to rate this film. I gave 7 out of 10 stars just because I think it's brutal and honest, but I can't say I can stomach watching it again. When I realized Kea's mental state, I started crying.
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