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brietle
IMDb member since January 2004
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Illustrious Energy (1988)
Golden history of a nation
22 February 2004 - 4 out of 5 users found this review helpful.
This film has affected me like no others, it felt like a true depiction of a forgotten episode of New Zealand's history. I'm no historian so I don't know how accurate the story is, but what a bittersweet movie it is. Is today more rascist or the one in this movie being set in a Chinese mining camp in Otago in the late 1800's? The beauty though pervades in the central Chinese characters attitudes and philosophy.
One of my favourite New Zealand movies.
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