Rapa Nui Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1994
- 107 min
- 190 Views
I'm not that hungry.
Remember when we were little?
You, me and Ramana would come
and climb this thing.
Back when there were more trees.
Things change.
They say this land was
covered with trees.
But Hotu Matu'a will send for
us before they're gone.
At least that's what
grandfather says.
You believe all that?
Don't you?
I only believe
What I can see,
What I can feel,
And what I don't have.
Why did you
Bring me here?
To talk. Who do you think I'll
have to beat in the race?
Ngaara and Kahumea.
- What about Makita?
- He can't swim.
Help me train.
Just some pointers. You know,
for old time's sake.
Why?
So your grandfather can be Birdman
again and work us all to death?
I have to
Win, Make.
They'll let us marry if I win.
Where is she?
until the race.
You put her in that hole?!
She wanted to! It's the only
way the gods,
The gods?
There are no
Gods!
Except the ones we
Make up! There's no
Spiritland! No Hotu Matu'a
coming for us.
Nothing out there
But sea!
This is all there ever was!
All there ever will be
No matter how many idiot
statues we build.
You love her, too.
That's it, isn't it?
You're as
Blind as your grandfather.
And even dumber than your crazy father.
At least I know who my father was.
I don't need your
Long Ear handouts.
And we were never
Friends!
Will you swim for me,
the Ariki-mau
The reigning Birdman?
Haoa!
Will you train me to compete
for the Birdman?
My daughter sits in
a cave for you.
You know the cliffs
- And currents better than anyone.
- Do I?
You trained my father.
Crazy Long Ear.
He won.
Y es, he did. Then one day he got
in one of my canoes
Sailed over
The horizon and never returned.
Got me banished here.
I'm not like him.
- I can see that.
- I'll give you
What you want.
Oh?
Then make the forests grow back so I have
Wood to work.
And explain why Ramana's skin
is not good enough.
Will you train me?
No. You're too ignorant.
Who's there?
It's me.
Noro?
No. Make.
How are you?
I'd love to stand up,
Move my legs.
- Did they feed you today?
- A little, yes.
I brought you something.
Here.
A yam!
I'm sorry there's not more.
It's all I have.
I'm not rich,
- And Long Ear, like him.
- Make! You must stop this.
Ramana, you're Short Ear.
I'm short Ear.
Why can't you love your own Kind?
You cannot choose
Who you love. Only whose love
To accept.
I can wait.
I've waited all my life.
He was here again, wasn't he?
Are you cold?
- I brought you something warm.
- No, I'm fine.
Ramana,
Do you think I've been ignorant?
I think you've just been a boy.
Is it night or day, my love?
It's night.
Your forty-fifth.
Orongo in the spring?
And swim with the sharks to Motu Nui?
For the first manutara egg?
And if you win
Who will be your Birdman?
Let each clan
Kahumea for Mokoi
Of the Marama clan.
Pounatea For Ataranga
Of the Haumoana clan.
Hinaioio
Makita
For Hira of the Kotuu clan.
Ngaara
For Tiko of the Ngatimo clan.
Noroinia
Of the royal Miru clan
For the Ariki-mau..
Ariki-paka.
Matua Tane.
Something worries me.
The training?
Too many mouths having too many children.
Good land turning to
Dust.
It's the moai.
They're eating everything.
No one's thinking beyond that.
I said to myself,
If you, the Ariki-mau, knew
This was happening you would stop it.
Anyhow, this is what I see.
Worry about the race.
All clear!
Rollers ready!
But I don't understand.
Replaced?
It's taken 41/2 moons to get this far.
You're far behind schedule.
But we've had hats to do as well.
And there's not enough rope.
- Riro's in charge now!
- But...
This is not possible.
I've been master carver for 27 years.
This is all I have.
You're old, Heke.
Join the crew.
Move it!
Sorry, Heke.
Try and forget about it.
Go dump this.
Lines!
Lines ready?
Pit ready?
Cut the keel.
Cut the keel.
Again.
Come on!
Hold.
More rope!
More rope!
More men!
More men! Do as I say, quickly!
Move! Move!
What for?
Heke!
We want more.
More what?
More of everything.
There used to be plenty.
That was before there were
So many of you.
There are more Long Ears.
- But even more of you!
- We like it that way.
It's good to have lots of children.
It honors the ancestors.
Why aren't you in the quarry?
Heke's dead.
I heard.
Terrible thing. Terrible.
The Short Ears say they want
more of everything.
It was pointed out that as there
is more of everyone
Especially them,
there is unfortunately less.
Then we want more of what's left
Or what?
We will build no more moai. -Including
The big one.
Tupa said you loved the project.
Tupa!
Apparently I was misled.
Not finish the moai?
Are you mad?
Everything depends on that!
We want half the crops.
Half?
- And half the wood for fuel.
- What?
- And no more hats!
- That's ridiculous!
So is your stupid statue.
One more thing.
What?
We wanna compete for the Birdman.
Kill them!
Then
Who will build the moai?
None of us remember how.
A word, please, Tupa.
I don't need this. I have
chicken entrails to read.
Then let me slay them and
make your day serene.
Just give them something.
A little food and fuel.
But competing for the Birdman!
They'll be too tired,
But they have to have something.
Ariki-paka,
I don't recall me not caring, priest.
This is unheard of.
- It's bad precedent
- Just give them
Something!
Why?
Because I see real danger in all this.
Oh, why must everything
be so difficult?
Here he comes.
You have broken
so many tapu
today that Makemake
should eat your souls in
hell for eternity!
But I will grant these requests,
on one condition.
For the Short Ears to enter
The Birdman race
The Great Moai must be finished
With a hat, by the time
the sunbirds arrive
At Motu Nui.
But if he loses the race
The Short Ear competitor
will be sacrificed
To honor
The reign of the new Birdman,
Your insolence today!
Now,
Who would swim
for the Short Ears?
I will.
Make. If you win,
Who will be your Birdman?
Myself.
Fine. Back to work
Now.
Though I make one last
condition, Ariki-mau.
What?
If the great moai is
finished in time
And if I swim for
and win the Birdman
The girl
In the Virgin cave is mine.
That seems fair.
Agreed..
Just finish the moai
In time.
I don't want to hear it.
You said you'd win.
Make!
There, there.
Canoe builder!
Join us.
Your future son-in law asks you to
train him for the Birdman!
I can't.
Why not?
Come on!
Eat. Sleep.
At first light... we begin.
This is our chance.
We have a moon before the birds come.
You must help me do the impossible.
But if we work all day
When will you train?
Starting now.
One... two
Three!
- One... two
- Three!
One
- Two
- Three!
One! Two! Three!
Three!
One! Two! Three!
Do you want to win?
More than anything.
Enough to
- See him sacrificed?
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