2011 · drama · action · history
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Directed by Wei Te-sheng2h 24m2011
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
Our read: Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · action · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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