Under 'The Angry Hawaiian (and a Disinvitation to the Sexy Luau)' section, we reviewed in class the film titled "Aloha Summer." I really didn't like this film because I thought it was really over-dramatized. I do feel however that it displayed a lot of prejudice which was not only present during the late 1950s/early 1960s when the film took place, but of which continues today.
"Aloha Summer" is a film about a group of teenagers of different ethincities and background. They all meet each other in Hawaii during the summer and the story unwravels full of drinking, lust, love, sex, racism, war (well, not literally, but of opposing forces between characters), hatred, prejudice, miscommunications, misunderstandings, and mistreatment. (I really could just sum up all of this with the word "immature" because these teenagers were really just a bunch of idiots who made poor decisions and didn't know how to keep their heads on straight. They had no restrictions, boundaries, limits, manners, or respect!?!)
One of the things in the film that really irked me had to do with the characters Chuck, Kimo, and Kimo's little sister Lani. Kimo develops a very strong hatred for the "white man" or "ha'ole." Kimo's hatred is so rooted to the point of despising and hating Chuck with all his heart and he was not afraid to show it and express it in the film through his uncontrollable anger and fists. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever for the plot to force the death of Kimo through a silly fight between Chuck and Kimo over the romance relationship that grew between Chuck and Kimo's little sister, Lani. Kimo, completely unforgiving and reluctant to allow the relationship, takes it upon himself to fight Chuck over the protection of his little sister. In a poor move, Kimo ends up dying in a car ride and crash off the edge of the mountain. (Ok, way fake and way over dramatized...waaaay!?!) I just have so many thoughts about this. It's just dumb that Kimo had to die over trying to protect his little sister and over his anger. It's lame how the film industries couldn't even display a succesful interracial relationship--they still couldn't bring it to display a successful NATURAL interracial relationship without interferring!?! We still see how much Hollywood goes to the extremes to force a successsful interracial relationship on film but it's still just so FAR from your normal relationships. Ohhh, film industries...lol.
"Aloha Summer" is a film about a group of teenagers of different ethincities and background. They all meet each other in Hawaii during the summer and the story unwravels full of drinking, lust, love, sex, racism, war (well, not literally, but of opposing forces between characters), hatred, prejudice, miscommunications, misunderstandings, and mistreatment. (I really could just sum up all of this with the word "immature" because these teenagers were really just a bunch of idiots who made poor decisions and didn't know how to keep their heads on straight. They had no restrictions, boundaries, limits, manners, or respect!?!)
One of the things in the film that really irked me had to do with the characters Chuck, Kimo, and Kimo's little sister Lani. Kimo develops a very strong hatred for the "white man" or "ha'ole." Kimo's hatred is so rooted to the point of despising and hating Chuck with all his heart and he was not afraid to show it and express it in the film through his uncontrollable anger and fists. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever for the plot to force the death of Kimo through a silly fight between Chuck and Kimo over the romance relationship that grew between Chuck and Kimo's little sister, Lani. Kimo, completely unforgiving and reluctant to allow the relationship, takes it upon himself to fight Chuck over the protection of his little sister. In a poor move, Kimo ends up dying in a car ride and crash off the edge of the mountain. (Ok, way fake and way over dramatized...waaaay!?!) I just have so many thoughts about this. It's just dumb that Kimo had to die over trying to protect his little sister and over his anger. It's lame how the film industries couldn't even display a succesful interracial relationship--they still couldn't bring it to display a successful NATURAL interracial relationship without interferring!?! We still see how much Hollywood goes to the extremes to force a successsful interracial relationship on film but it's still just so FAR from your normal relationships. Ohhh, film industries...lol.
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Oh my goodness, I totally agree!! Really? Fall off a cliff while protecting his sister and tragically die while the "white boy" that caused all of this drama stands there and watches and then consoles his girl who just watch her brother fall off a cliff? When does that ever happen in reality? Wow! I was so upset at that point of the movie, I didn't care about the ending. For me, that was the ending. Funny how Hollywood always has to force its way into our minds to try and trick audiences to believe that this type of relationship never ends well, and the "white man" always wins the battle. This was not one of my favorite movies, but its importance in Hawaii's media history holds great value into the insight of what was important at that time.
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