Review of Tanna

Not sure how much this movie is based on real life. If that is so, the depiction of how the females are treated in this movie is certainly a very sad way to live. In a nutshell, the female lead was chosen to be married off to another tribe, when she has reached her age of adolescence, ready for pro-creation. This arrangement was to prevent her as a peace offering, to prevent any war between both tribes (which in this case, they already had tension of some sort to begin with). However, this female lead fell in love with her own tribe leader's grandson & both lovers decided to elope the tribe for good. Despite their efforts, their own tribe decided to hunt them down like animals & the couple decided to end their lives.

After watching this movie, I feel that it is kinda of a joke for a bunch of half naked strong men running away in their loin sheaths, being the masters in their tribe, to use their women as their shields. One would imagine they would try much harder to defend their own tribal freedom & protect their own women. Even more absurdly, the men decided to come together & share "Big Lofty Talk" & do their "Macho Dance", upon burying the couple in their graves. Blar Blar Blar....

Other than that, the movie feels like a National Geographic documentary, which wasn't done too shabbily in it's defense. However, not something I would rave about, also probably explained why this movie didn't win the academy award for best foreign film.