Sami Blood was so much different than a typical movie about prejudice and culture. Maj-Doris Rimp (Elle Marja) and all the people portraying Sami People were real Laplanders. Obviously, Elle Marja, the lead actor as characterized in the movie came from being raised as a Laplander and that is where she got her education in life because" there is no university like adversity"("the School of Hard Knocks").
What is striking is that unlike typical Swedes or Sami People, Elle Marja understands this desire and social need that all people should acculturate themselves to the cultures of other people who have different values than you--but on your own terms! Why?:Because: "If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it." ~S. I. Hayakawa
As i watched the people in this movie talking about "Yoiking" (Sami music) I went to YouTube and listened to "Yoik of the Wind." If you were way up in the mountains in the wilderness this is the feeling you would express. The ending of this movie really floored me too and wrapped up the whole picture expressing the character and moral of the story through this woman's finale. By The Way, I'm a 71 year old Irish-American avid movie watcher and found this movie to be well worth watching for anybody. I have never reviewed any movie but couldn't understand why I have never seen SAMI BLOOD" listed on top foreign genre movie lists.
What is striking is that unlike typical Swedes or Sami People, Elle Marja understands this desire and social need that all people should acculturate themselves to the cultures of other people who have different values than you--but on your own terms! Why?:Because: "If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it." ~S. I. Hayakawa
As i watched the people in this movie talking about "Yoiking" (Sami music) I went to YouTube and listened to "Yoik of the Wind." If you were way up in the mountains in the wilderness this is the feeling you would express. The ending of this movie really floored me too and wrapped up the whole picture expressing the character and moral of the story through this woman's finale. By The Way, I'm a 71 year old Irish-American avid movie watcher and found this movie to be well worth watching for anybody. I have never reviewed any movie but couldn't understand why I have never seen SAMI BLOOD" listed on top foreign genre movie lists.