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We get to meet the kamaaina crowd around Clooney and learn that this crowd will realize enormous cash through the sale of the Kauai property. As sole trustee, George gets to decide whether to sell. Given the events he experiences, hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 he ultimately decides not to sell, to the consternation of his family, particularly his cousin in Kauai played by Beau Bridges.
George decides that although none of his relatives did anything to acquire the land it is their legacy they should hold on to it despite the Rule against Perpetuities, reminding us of the Campbell Estate. His predicament with the land raises the problem of too few people owning too much land, and the need for land reform. You're hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 sympathetic with Clooney, but in some ways you're not. I love movies about the Rule against Perpetuities and Land Reform.
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I thought the production values were first class. The music was well selected, especially some of the slack key from Jeff Peterson. You had a strange disconnect when Hawaiian music was playing during a difficult time for the characters. But that must have been intended and it worked well, perhaps to signify how controlled they would be even in stressful circumstances.
There are lots of local icons. The houses and clubs, the neighborhoods hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 (a number of scenes were in Nuuanu), the street scenes, all here. It's a movie you have to see more than once because it gives such attention to detail that you can't catch it all the first time around. You have to give the producer credit for this. This makes it interesting, of course, hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 for anyone living in Hawaii.
hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 I did see some people hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 I knew playing bit roles in the movie, but I was disappointed that there weren't many more local people in the movie. There were not many Asian faces in the movie and that didn't seem entirely accurate. hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 The movie takes us into the lane of the landed, the life of the Hawaiian Raj. But it also shows that that life in that lane is not so carefree as we may think. It's not the first time that Hollywood has made that point, but perhaps it is the first time we saw it in a movie about Hawaii.
So I think everybody should see this movie, for the story, the acting and the genre we hope will be repeated. Although there was sharp language in many places in the movie, somehow it rang true because kids do talk that way. This is a window into them even in their private schools. But, as always, you look at the kids in this movie and wonder how long they will stay in Hawaii.
hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 The Descendants hotel rwanda reviews jan 7 is a worthy statement of modern day Hawaii, and for me the first good effort at that. I'd like to see more movies about life in today's Hawaii, and I think the world would too. We have a million great stories, but not enough of them are getting out. If Hollywood could make the Descendants, maybe they'll make movies of more of those stories. But it would be better if the local movie industry could learn to tell these stories. After all, there's gold in these hills.
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