Based on the book End of the Spear
Rated: PG-13 (violence-spearing-graphic, a Waodani woman looks down young Steve Saint's shorts to confirm he is a boy, see a preteen girl's developing breast-split second, Waodani men wear g-strings)
Viewers will witness the violent, hateful worldview the Waodani tribe in Ecuador and how it affects their reactions to the five missionary men who try to reach them for Christ. The narrator, Steve Saint, Nate Saint's son, shares how it impacted him and also how the tribe (especially his father's killer) is transformed.
The book focuses mostly on Steve and his return to the tribe as an adult to help them in the technology advancing world. The movie spends a few minutes on this aspect of the book. How Steve discovers that Mincaye had killed his father and his reaction to this knowledge is not accurate and dramatized.
*Highly recommend (It is worth watching, but reading the book provides a much richer experience.)
-Borrowed from the library.
No comments:
Post a Comment