Whale rider

This movie started out so sad with the mother giving birth to twins and having the baby boy die along with the mother, leaving only the baby girl, Pai The father is heartbroken and meanwhile all the grandpa, Koro wanted was to have a grandson, so he could become the tribes leader. Koro can not understand his sons grief of just losing his wife and baby son. The Koro tells the grandmother to take the baby girl away and as quoted in the movie, “you would almost think he never wanted her to be born.” It flash forwards to a few years later when Pai and Koro seem attached at the hip riding a bicycle through the countryside just as happy as can be. The father seems out of the picture and visits every now and then and on his latest visit he decides to take Pai with him. This movie has terrible acting and the title seemed to have nothing to do with the movie until the father is taking Pai home with him and she sees a whale in the ocean. These random outburst of singing between the Pai and grandmother make no sense what so ever. It is a very confusing movie. When Koro decides not to go with her father and returns to her grandparents they want nothing to do with them. Instead they start a school for boys in order to prepare them to become a chief. Pai will spy on all the classes and learn the chants and how to fight. When Koro finds out he is furious and Pai just doesn’t understand why she can not join. Pai asked her uncle to teach her how to fight, its really funny because of how out of shape he is to see him do all these fighting moves with a stick. Koro takes his students of young boys out with him to the middle of the ocean and throws his necklace in the water and says whoever brings it back to him will become the leader. None of the boys can but a few days later Pai’s uncle takes her out and she is able to retrieve it. The whole things with the whales in the water and Koro trying so hard to get them back into the water I didn’t get at all. Then Pai gets onto of one of the whales and rides it into the ocean, it’s so weird. You think she is dead but somehow survives it and ends up in the hospital. Then the movie just kid of ends with a celebration into the water and the men row away in this beautiful boat.