The film is quite depressing in that the people of the town in the movie are living in almost third world conditions. 8 kids having to support themselves in houses that are crumbling. Is this still a problem in NZ which is supposedly a first world country?
shareMy family live in Gisborne and i have alot of family living way up the coast. And i will tell you that they do not think they're poor at all.
They love their freedom and all the neighbours look after each other. It's about an hour drive away from an actual shop. The kids have so much to do. Nothing bad happens, they have horses and a beach right infront of them.
They also grow up to be independent, kill their own food, milk their own cows and grow they're own veggies. I wish i grew up there.
Well there are places in lots of country's much worse, America is the worlds only superpower yet ive seen conditions people live in over there that really shocked me. Also Ive seen documentaries about inner city life in Britain that was pretty shocking too.
sharewell, can you say America is a 1st world country now?
seriously? 40 million americans homeless!
bridges, roads falling down, cities becoming abandoned, drug problems, prostitution, gangs, etc etc etc
now I know New Zealand markets itself as 100% PURE!
lord of the rings country! beauty green, yadda yadda yadda etc etc etc
I grew up in Wellington, the capital city, I never traveled further than taupo until I was 20 years old, grew up sometimes on east coast, west coast and the valley, I new there were haves and have nots.
was not uncommon to have friends come to school who didnt have any lunch.
was common for many kids growing up in government housing, parents on social welfare, etc etc, same things as any other country.
wasn't uncommon for kids to hang around the streets, outside mac donalds or the fish and chip shops asking people for a dollar, or a bite of their burger!
kids have no money, parents are drunks or drug addicts, and don't even feed their kids.. this kind of behaviour has not ethnic discrimination. I have seen it with black and white kids.
now, I grew up in wellington, didn't really think there were homeless people like you see in the movies in America.
I never thought kiwis were starving, or living in 3rd world conditions, because we have the Dole(social welfare)
but once I traveled out of wellington, and traveled the country, and saw the smaller towns, then I begun to see how my fellow kiwis were living,
yes, they had the dole( and thank our government for that) but still that money is just enough to survive. but the housing conditions are old, falling down, terrible insulation, (this goes for the expensive houses too)
new Zealand is the paradise, but it's an island, and like all islands, there are poor people living there.
now, new zealand has become VERY EXPENSIVE! so now ordinary kiwis are finding it really hard to eat well, buy proper things and just live the once traditional way of life,
now foreigners have moved in with money from abroad, and have driven the prices through the roof!
so the movie was based on the 80's. well I can tell you, not much has changed for the unfortunate, and those numbers are staggering who have all been forced out of the cities as the prices are crazy.
Of course, the US is first-world - in its military. For the rest, second world, that will certainly slip to mostly third world if we don't spend some of our taxes on infrastructure and the poor, instead of investing so much of it in killing machines.
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