Thanks for commenting (and sorry that I had to oversimplify and say that I didn't speak Sami, knowing that there is South Sami and North Sami, which I understand are very different). Australia needs this kind of film to help reconcile whites with Aboriginals, but so far it's mostly been too one-sided to change anyone's mind.
@Marcus girly, he literally just meant Sami people and representation. Let’s be honest, we don’t get a lot of good representation. Just admit it, you don’t like being part Sami 🤷♀️
This breaks my heart as my own family had to go through this horrible treatment. In the first showing of this movie some elders sat in the front row of the movie theater with their gákti (traditional clothes) crying. Knowing they also have gone through that was even more heartbreaking.
I’m feeling a little over whelmed here, like everything is making sense… I think I’m Sami - on my paternal grandma’s side. It was written in her family’s Bible that there was Indian blood, but we thought it was Native American. An aunt, who married into the family, is Native American and searched our genealogy, but couldn’t find any Native. I recently discovered Sami. When my godson was born and I was searching for a Scandinavian name. My paternal grandpa is Swede, my paternal grandma is Norwegian. The older Sami look just like my great uncles! Broad cheekbones, shorter, but stocky. They have passed on, but were builders, hardworking men - well into their 80s and passed in their 90s. My great, great Aunt Byrdhill lived to be 109yrs old - in the UP of Michigan. She was so adventurous and full of life - only surrounded herself with positive people, was always looking for a good laugh, and claimed that everyone needs 3 hugs a day to survive. She played a big role in who I am today - I have her sense of adventure. I love the feel of the rain, as she did. I love to be surrounded by the forest, and feel peace. I ran across this film while looking at Sami pictures. The light haired Sami resemble my brother and self. And the children look like my godchildren! In the preview, the main character seemed to be mocked and asked to yoik. I didn’t know what that meant, so I looked it up and watched a young woman singing a yoik. My mind is blown as I do this all the time! I sing like this and didn’t even know it was a thing that was done or that their was a name for it!! I know nothing of my heritage on that side. Other than my great, great Aunt once told me that her mother and father came over from Norway and he would cross country ski 60+ miles a day delivering mail, and he won a special title at their local men’s club because he could hang from his teeth for hours, lol. (I didn’t know that was anyone’s special talent until she told me, haha) Anyways, I feel a strong connection to the Sami, like I am part of them. I don’t know for sure, but I feel it. Is this even possible? To be raised without knowing anything about your heritage - no language or customs passed down, but to somehow be apart of the culture and do things your ancestors did without even knowing you were doing them? I know that human nature is all very similar - no matter where we are or where we are from, we all have them same desires - to love and be loved, we feel fear, we feel pain, we feel joy, we feel loneliness, we can feel despair, but we can also be content. We all desire to love and worship something greater than ourselves - God. (Even remote tribes that were secluded from all civil action…) Maybe this is all part of the human experience. ❤️
@@jenn2597 I just read your comment about jojk. The thing is that jojk is an amazingly beautiful way of expressing yourself when you are out of words for your feelings. It's rooted deep inside and just explodes like melody. The sad part of it was that christians thought it to be connected with the devil. But in real life it comes out just as normal as laughter and cry. My daughter for example, have different jojks for when she's in pain, or she's tired, or when she just have been eating a good meal, and she's four years old. You probably have it running through your veins. A beautiful way of expression.
Thanks for your comment Mats. If you're interested, there is a somewhat similar Australian mini-series (two parts only) called Secret River. It's a bit more intense but it's a similar kind of thing in terms of indigenous/settler relationships.
@@matsf8268 Haha, bra fråga, det hade jag inte tänkt på. It seems you can get it on Google Play but it's expensive ($18 AU for the whole thing... that's a lot!), same story on iTunes. I'll let you know if I ever see it come back to Australia's free streaming service where it used to be, ABC iView.
This one sounds really good. Reminded me of that series, was it Midnight Sun?, with the obligatory tortured gay detective and the other obligatory tortured French Persian detective and the guy tied to a helicopter blade and the pregnant woman hanging upside down from a bridge and a creepy Sami shaman lady. Oh boy, it achieved The Break levels of crappiness but I watched every minute of it.
Yeah that was Midnight Sun. I had mixed feelings about that series: parts of it were awesome, in particularly I liked the Sami shaman lady who spoke to the French woman and the French woman could understand her. I thought that was kinda cool. Also, the "conclusion" to that was kinda badarse... like basically the bad guy wasn't really the bad guy in the eyes of the writers (which is kinda insane considering how many people he killed). But then, yes, like you say, some super pro-PC stuff in there, and just a fair bit of irrelevant stuff as well. And unlike "Insomnia", it didn't need to be set in the land of the Midnight Sun, that didn't make any difference. However Sami Blood is very very different. The plot here is basically a Sami girl asking herself: Who am I, really? And this is what I will always try to tell these PC-mafia kinds (in Sweden they are called the PK-mafia: Politiskt-korrekta mafian): You are actually really insensitive to cultural and sexual issues when you put them into a story for no reason, so Sami Blood is actually way more sensitive and respectful of Sami people (AND of Swedes) than Midnight Sun was.
@@lamontmcleod2 I couldn't forgive them for killing off Peter Stormare in episode one! He's one of my favorites and I love that he played Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman back when he was young and pretty.
@@lylegorch5956 Haha, sorry, no idea who were talking about. Of course I know Ingmar Bergman (actually that reminds me I've got a bunch of his movies on DVD to watch), but yeah to me that series was nothing special, but certainly nowhere near The Break levels of crapness (for my money).
@@lamontmcleod2 In Fargo, he was the thug who wanted pancakes and put Steve Buscemi into the woodchopper. He's one of those supporting players who is always the best thing in the show. (I'll get back to you on Wandering Earth).
@@lylegorch5956 Ah yeah him, also the "Russian" mafia cousin in John Wick 2, curiously enough, playing the cousin of another Swede. So basically, two Swedes playing Russians. Also the dodgy street surgeon in Minority Report, and he's in Chocolat too (which was by a British author who set the book in France, but had a French actress and an American actor as the lead... and the whole thing was directed by a Swede). And yes I'd agree that he's often one of the best things in the show.
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I've watched this review twice now, and had to wonder if I wanted to really watch it. I have a very low tolerance for politics in my movies, but this does seem to rise above the simple plots of oppression 'n gloom. I have one suggestion: a very clear "you should watch this or not" in your final judgements. Sometimes I'm a bit on the verge about what you say. This is not a criticism: hey, sometimes I'm ambivalent, too. But a few times I've been lost as to what you really thought, and those (like I said, *few*) times were a bit off-putting. Like I said, NOT criticism. In fact, I adore having someone just tell me what they think. Just a slight suggestion. You do have fans.
Thanks. OK so where I have a problem with "you should watch this or you shouldn't" is that for a film like this it's going to be very different for different people. I have a friend who was basically IN LOVE with this film. But if you don't like slow films, I can see someone saying that it's literally the worst movie they've ever seen. Have you seen Never Let Me Go, and if so, what did you think of it? Basically I think of this as similar. If you like Never Let Me Go, you should like this. (I did say that?) I am only adamant when I feel the film is objectively good or bad, like La Trêve (bad) and A Very Long Engagement (good). Basically I think if someone disagrees with me on those, then they are wrong. It seems that you are after that attitude... I am totally fine with that, but NOT for Sami Blood... because I think disliking how slow it is IS a valid reason to not like it. But I liked it. I will bear in mind what you've said... I think it will be in the form of like 4 categories: 1. If you liked this then you're wrong, and if you hated it you're correct. 2. If you liked this then you disagree with me but I can see what you mean 3. If you liked this then we agree but some (smart) people could not like it. 4. If you liked this then you're correct, and if you disliked it you're wrong.
Det var inget! Tack för kommentaren och förlåt om att jag skrev tillbaka så sent. Om du inte vill behöver du aldrig skriva på engleska på min kanal/mina kanaler. 😀
The Sámi people are not asian. They're European but they've evolved some similar features due to the hard environments such as protection against sunlight, winds, snow blindness, cold etc.
Greta Thunberg was really good in this. This is the kind of movie that could be made in any corner of the world (about Indians in North America, Aboriginals in Australia, etc.). And a number of such movies have already been made.
This film looks like Bumi Manusia, the Indonesian film that talks about colonialism, which is about a native Indonesian student being called monkey by the teacher in European school.
tidak, salah tidak ada perbandingan antara Belanda dan bagaimana pemerintah memperlakukan orang-orang aborigin. jika Anda akan meninggalkan komentar TOLONG membuatnya mengatakan yang sebenarnya. orang-orangmu adalah penindas orang-orang aborigin sejak awal jadi tolong katakan yang sebenarnya dan berhentilah berbohong.
As a Sámi man, I really appreciate the recognition my people get from this movie.
Thanks for commenting (and sorry that I had to oversimplify and say that I didn't speak Sami, knowing that there is South Sami and North Sami, which I understand are very different).
Australia needs this kind of film to help reconcile whites with Aboriginals, but so far it's mostly been too one-sided to change anyone's mind.
@@lamontmcleod2 Oh, it's all good! I think a video about the Aboriginals in Australia would be pretty awesome too!
As a sámi teen, i do too
@Marcus girly, he literally just meant Sami people and representation. Let’s be honest, we don’t get a lot of good representation. Just admit it, you don’t like being part Sami 🤷♀️
This breaks my heart as my own family had to go through this horrible treatment. In the first showing of this movie some elders sat in the front row of the movie theater with their gákti (traditional clothes) crying. Knowing they also have gone through that was even more heartbreaking.
I’m feeling a little over whelmed here, like everything is making sense… I think I’m Sami - on my paternal grandma’s side. It was written in her family’s Bible that there was Indian blood, but we thought it was Native American.
An aunt, who married into the family, is Native American and searched our genealogy, but couldn’t find any Native.
I recently discovered Sami. When my godson was born and I was searching for a Scandinavian name. My paternal grandpa is Swede, my paternal grandma is Norwegian.
The older Sami look just like my great uncles! Broad cheekbones, shorter, but stocky. They have passed on, but were builders, hardworking men - well into their 80s and passed in their 90s.
My great, great Aunt Byrdhill lived to be 109yrs old - in the UP of Michigan. She was so adventurous and full of life - only surrounded herself with positive people, was always looking for a good laugh, and claimed that everyone needs 3 hugs a day to survive. She played a big role in who I am today - I have her sense of adventure. I love the feel of the rain, as she did. I love to be surrounded by the forest, and feel peace.
I ran across this film while looking at Sami pictures. The light haired Sami resemble my brother and self. And the children look like my godchildren!
In the preview, the main character seemed to be mocked and asked to yoik. I didn’t know what that meant, so I looked it up and watched a young woman singing a yoik.
My mind is blown as I do this all the time! I sing like this and didn’t even know it was a thing that was done or that their was a name for it!!
I know nothing of my heritage on that side. Other than my great, great Aunt once told me that her mother and father came over from Norway and he would cross country ski 60+ miles a day delivering mail, and he won a special title at their local men’s club because he could hang from his teeth for hours, lol. (I didn’t know that was anyone’s special talent until she told me, haha)
Anyways, I feel a strong connection to the Sami, like I am part of them. I don’t know for sure, but I feel it. Is this even possible? To be raised without knowing anything about your heritage - no language or customs passed down, but to somehow be apart of the culture and do things your ancestors did without even knowing you were doing them?
I know that human nature is all very similar - no matter where we are or where we are from, we all have them same desires - to love and be loved, we feel fear, we feel pain, we feel joy, we feel loneliness, we can feel despair, but we can also be content. We all desire to love and worship something greater than ourselves - God. (Even remote tribes that were secluded from all civil action…) Maybe this is all part of the human experience. ❤️
@@jenn2597 I just read your comment about jojk. The thing is that jojk is an amazingly beautiful way of expressing yourself when you are out of words for your feelings. It's rooted deep inside and just explodes like melody. The sad part of it was that christians thought it to be connected with the devil. But in real life it comes out just as normal as laughter and cry. My daughter for example, have different jojks for when she's in pain, or she's tired, or when she just have been eating a good meal, and she's four years old. You probably have it running through your veins. A beautiful way of expression.
Hi! The sami People live across Norway, sweden, Finland and russia. Im nowegian, and watched this movie in school. Great video
Super film. It is a slow-burn. I took a couple of breaks and came back to it. The lead actress did an amazing job.
Great review, wanted to hear some thoughts before watching. Appreciate the vid!
Thanks for your review! I wanted to see this, but here in S.Korea, I've no idea where I can find it.
Sorry, I'm not sure. :-/
Try amazon or eBay
I bought mine from amazon
You can get it on amazon
OK thank you!
The film is a masterpiece. Original, compelling, and moving.
Could you tell me what music you have used for the intro of this video. It sounds great!
Ah sorry there'd be no way I could find it anymore since this was years ago and I've switched editing software and stock music providers.
@@lamontmcleod2 no worries!
Great movie
Thanks for your comment Mats. If you're interested, there is a somewhat similar Australian mini-series (two parts only) called Secret River. It's a bit more intense but it's a similar kind of thing in terms of indigenous/settler relationships.
@@lamontmcleod2 cool, where could I find this?
@@matsf8268 Haha, bra fråga, det hade jag inte tänkt på.
It seems you can get it on Google Play but it's expensive ($18 AU for the whole thing... that's a lot!), same story on iTunes.
I'll let you know if I ever see it come back to Australia's free streaming service where it used to be, ABC iView.
Good work, thank you
This one sounds really good. Reminded me of that series, was it Midnight Sun?, with the obligatory tortured gay detective and the other obligatory tortured French Persian detective and the guy tied to a helicopter blade and the pregnant woman hanging upside down from a bridge and a creepy Sami shaman lady. Oh boy, it achieved The Break levels of crappiness but I watched every minute of it.
Yeah that was Midnight Sun.
I had mixed feelings about that series: parts of it were awesome, in particularly I liked the Sami shaman lady who spoke to the French woman and the French woman could understand her. I thought that was kinda cool.
Also, the "conclusion" to that was kinda badarse... like basically the bad guy wasn't really the bad guy in the eyes of the writers (which is kinda insane considering how many people he killed). But then, yes, like you say, some super pro-PC stuff in there, and just a fair bit of irrelevant stuff as well. And unlike "Insomnia", it didn't need to be set in the land of the Midnight Sun, that didn't make any difference.
However Sami Blood is very very different. The plot here is basically a Sami girl asking herself: Who am I, really? And this is what I will always try to tell these PC-mafia kinds (in Sweden they are called the PK-mafia: Politiskt-korrekta mafian):
You are actually really insensitive to cultural and sexual issues when you put them into a story for no reason, so Sami Blood is actually way more sensitive and respectful of Sami people (AND of Swedes) than Midnight Sun was.
@@lamontmcleod2 I couldn't forgive them for killing off Peter Stormare in episode one! He's one of my favorites and I love that he played Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman back when he was young and pretty.
@@lylegorch5956 Haha, sorry, no idea who were talking about. Of course I know Ingmar Bergman (actually that reminds me I've got a bunch of his movies on DVD to watch), but yeah to me that series was nothing special, but certainly nowhere near The Break levels of crapness (for my money).
@@lamontmcleod2 In Fargo, he was the thug who wanted pancakes and put Steve Buscemi into the woodchopper. He's one of those supporting players who is always the best thing in the show. (I'll get back to you on Wandering Earth).
@@lylegorch5956 Ah yeah him, also the "Russian" mafia cousin in John Wick 2, curiously enough, playing the cousin of another Swede. So basically, two Swedes playing Russians.
Also the dodgy street surgeon in Minority Report, and he's in Chocolat too (which was by a British author who set the book in France, but had a French actress and an American actor as the lead... and the whole thing was directed by a Swede).
And yes I'd agree that he's often one of the best things in the show.
I've watched this review twice now, and had to wonder if I wanted to really watch it. I have a very low tolerance for politics in my movies, but this does seem to rise above the simple plots of oppression 'n gloom.
I have one suggestion: a very clear "you should watch this or not" in your final judgements. Sometimes I'm a bit on the verge about what you say. This is not a criticism: hey, sometimes I'm ambivalent, too. But a few times I've been lost as to what you really thought, and those (like I said, *few*) times were a bit off-putting.
Like I said, NOT criticism. In fact, I adore having someone just tell me what they think. Just a slight suggestion.
You do have fans.
Thanks.
OK so where I have a problem with "you should watch this or you shouldn't" is that for a film like this it's going to be very different for different people. I have a friend who was basically IN LOVE with this film. But if you don't like slow films, I can see someone saying that it's literally the worst movie they've ever seen.
Have you seen Never Let Me Go, and if so, what did you think of it?
Basically I think of this as similar. If you like Never Let Me Go, you should like this.
(I did say that?)
I am only adamant when I feel the film is objectively good or bad, like La Trêve (bad) and A Very Long Engagement (good).
Basically I think if someone disagrees with me on those, then they are wrong. It seems that you are after that attitude... I am totally fine with that, but NOT for Sami Blood... because I think disliking how slow it is IS a valid reason to not like it. But I liked it.
I will bear in mind what you've said... I think it will be in the form of like 4 categories:
1. If you liked this then you're wrong, and if you hated it you're correct.
2. If you liked this then you disagree with me but I can see what you mean
3. If you liked this then we agree but some (smart) people could not like it.
4. If you liked this then you're correct, and if you disliked it you're wrong.
Thank you
Det var inget! Tack för kommentaren och förlåt om att jag skrev tillbaka så sent. Om du inte vill behöver du aldrig skriva på engleska på min kanal/mina kanaler. 😀
Mubi had it for a while but I think it's off now.
Are there Asian Sami People? The older pictures I see online of Sami people look asiatic.
The Sámi people are not asian. They're European but they've evolved some similar features due to the hard environments such as protection against sunlight, winds, snow blindness, cold etc.
Greta Thunberg was really good in this. This is the kind of movie that could be made in any corner of the world (about Indians in North America, Aboriginals in Australia, etc.). And a number of such movies have already been made.
Hahaha.
It's funny because I was just thinking today how she looks a bit like Greta Thunberg.
Yes, there is similarities
This film looks like Bumi Manusia, the Indonesian film that talks about colonialism, which is about a native Indonesian student being called monkey by the teacher in European school.
tidak, salah tidak ada perbandingan antara Belanda dan bagaimana pemerintah memperlakukan orang-orang aborigin. jika Anda akan meninggalkan komentar TOLONG membuatnya mengatakan yang sebenarnya. orang-orangmu adalah penindas orang-orang aborigin sejak awal jadi tolong katakan yang sebenarnya dan berhentilah berbohong.
Remember the Orang Asli in your country. Think about what your government and people did to them.
Почему они, как финны и эстонцы до конца не смешались с белыми европейцами и изолировались?