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* MoralEventHorizon: For most viewers, Jake crossed it when he has violently raped Beth about a third into the film.

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For most viewers, Jake crossed it when he has violently raped Beth about a third into the film.film.
** Uncle Bully crosses it [[spoiler: when he rapes Grace, which indirectly led to her committing suicide.]]


* TrueArtIsAngsty: The film got rave reviews from critics. As the rest of this page should indicate, it's not a cheerful story. %% * UnfortunateImplications: When Beth tells the white policewoman near the start "I bet you think you know everything about us don't you?" as if she was wrong, the rest of the story would see the Heke family entangled in every single one of the stereotypical things the policewoman was probably imagining, the implication being that sometimes police profiling is spot-on and justified.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The film got rave reviews from critics As the rest of this page should indicate, it's not a cheerful story.
%% * UnfortunateImplications: When Beth tells the white policewoman near the start "I bet you think you know everything about us don't you?" as if she was wrong, the rest of the story would see the Heke family entangled in every single one of the stereotypical things the policewoman was probably imagining, the implication being that sometimes police profiling is spot-on and justified.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The film got rave reviews from critics critics. As the rest of this page should indicate, it's not a cheerful story.
story. %% * UnfortunateImplications: When Beth tells the white policewoman near the start "I bet you think you know everything about us don't you?" as if she was wrong, the rest of the story would see the Heke family entangled in every single one of the stereotypical things the policewoman was probably imagining, the implication being that sometimes police profiling is spot-on and justified.
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* MisaimedFandom: Alan Duff wrote the original novel with the intention of providing a {{Deconstruction}} of Jake Heke as a BadassNative, and as AnAesop to show that violence, especially violence driven by alcoholism, was wrong. [[https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/violent-maori-males-worship-jake-heke/YRFLICDWTF4W5TUCIRMOZN36IA/ If this article is any indication]], Jake has to a very real degree become a DracoInLeatherPants. Many violent Maori youth apparently idolize Jake as the kind of badass they want to become, and entirely miss the message Duff intended.

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* MisaimedFandom: Alan Duff wrote the original novel with the intention of providing a {{Deconstruction}} of Jake Heke as a BadassNative, and as AnAesop to show that violence, especially violence driven by alcoholism, was is wrong. [[https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/violent-maori-males-worship-jake-heke/YRFLICDWTF4W5TUCIRMOZN36IA/ If this article is any indication]], Jake has to a very real degree become a DracoInLeatherPants. Many violent Maori youth apparently idolize Jake as the kind of badass they want to become, and entirely miss the message Duff intended.
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* MisaimedFandom: Alan Duff wrote the original novel with the intention of providing a {{Deconstruction}} of Jake Heke as a BadassNative, and as AnAesop to show that violence, especially violence driven by alcoholism, was wrong. [[https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/violent-maori-males-worship-jake-heke/YRFLICDWTF4W5TUCIRMOZN36IA/ If this article is any indication]], Jake has to a very real degree become a DracoInLeatherPants. Many violent Maori youth apparently idolize Jake as the kind of badass they want to become, and entirely miss the message Duff intended.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The film got rave reviews from critics
As the rest of this page should indicate, it's not a cheerful story.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The film got rave reviews from critics
critics As the rest of this page should indicate, it's not a cheerful story.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The film got rave reviews from critics
As the rest of this page should indicate, it's not a cheerful story.

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