The first time I saw the name Maori was about 30 years ago. When I was a child, I liked the comic strip "Children of Captain Grant", which was changed by Jules Verne's novel. That was my first contact with Verne. The content of the novel has been vaguely remembered, but I am deeply impressed by the Maori people in the novel. They wore feather headdresses, rowed canoes, were naked, had strange stripes on their faces, and, horribly, cannibalized. In the novel, they are uncivilized savages. The 1870s and 1880s described in Verne's novels are only less than thirty years away from the film "Wild Tracker". Thirty years, a generation has grown up. What happened in the past few decades is like the Europeans going to the Americas, taking land and genocide. The hatred between the Maori and the whites from Europe is the same as the hatred between the Indians and the whites.
At that time there was an Anglo-Boers War between Great Britain and South Africa. It feels like in that era, the British were fighting with people everywhere. Looking at modern history, people have been the protagonists of this planet for three hundred years. It is said that after this unjust war, the South African veteran guerrillas and farmer Van Diemen who defended their homes will go to the British colonies to find a way out. The legendary Van Diemen is said to have killed many British officers and escaped the enemy.
A Maori man came to the port of New Zealand, a British colony, and finished making out with a white woman in the stable. He encountered a drunk local soldier and found fault. During the fight, the soldier killed his brother by mistake, and the Maori also fled. In order to protect himself, the drunk soldier accused the Maori of killing the soldier, and the major offered a reward of 100 gold pounds for capturing the Maori alive. Van Diemen joins the trail.
Maori have great wilderness survival skills. This is the dream of every outdoor enthusiast. Tragically, Van Diemen sees through his disguise.
The wounded Maori left the sea and entered the mountains. New Zealand is a mountainous country. The beauty here is no less than that of any country. I saw it ten years ago in the movie The Lord of the Rings. It's hard work to keep track of this, and it's the same for both parties. The escapee had to do everything possible to find the way and to cover up the traces of their passing, while the stalker did not dare to relax for a moment, for fear of losing someone.
The plot started to get exciting when the two sides contacted each other.
The two began to sympathize and understand each other in the chase, fight and chase. At this time, the indigenous Maori, after generations of struggle, have begun to slowly dissolve into modern life. When Van Diemen was reciting the Bible, the Maori told him that he, too, had attended mission school.
In the last fight, the two rolled down the hillside, and the Maori had a chance to kill Van Dimen, but couldn't. At this time, after the chasing soldiers came up, everyone caught the Maori. Van Diemen also knew that Maori would not have what the military called a fair trial. Van Diemen even found an opportunity to help the Maori escape.
Fan Dimen did not leave with the chasing soldiers, but chose to continue to help the Maori. And accompany him to the sacred place of the Maori, the guardian of the sacred cave. At this time, the Maori entered the cave and began to seek spiritual help from ancestors and gods. When the pursuers arrived again, if they were caught, the Maori knew they would die. He didn't want to be hanged from a tree stump by a white man like his ancestors. Van Diemen handed his pistol to the Maori and wanted to fight with him. The Maori asked Van Diemen that they would rather die at his hands and hope for a decent funeral in the future. He took off his shirt, held the barrel of the gun, and sang loudly and solemnly in Maori.
When the pursuers heard gunfire, the Maori were crawling in the pool under the waterfall when they arrived. Van Diemen gave the officer a wrapped red cloth, opened it, and saw a finger. This is how Van Diemen treats heroic enemies, giving them dignity. Van Diemen even asked the officers to take the Maori body back for a proper burial.
When the officer led the pursuers back to the port, the officer suddenly thought that the Maori did not die, but that Van Diemen cut off his finger and Lemon passed the border. Orders to search all nearby ports and whaling ships for Maori missing a finger.
At the end of the film, Dad Fan Dimen sat on the boat, took out a pocket watch with photos of his wife and daughter in his left hand, and a few tears fell down. Holding the pipe in his right hand, he took a sip.
The military will not find a Maori with a broken finger, because it is the father Fan Dimen who has broken a finger.
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