Essay Comparing The Fast Runner And Ten Canoes

The following is a compare and contrast essay between the films of The Fast Runner and Ten Canoes as both feature stories of two types indigenous people, the Inuit people from the film The Fast Runner who reside in the Canadian Arctic, and the aborigine people of Australia's Northern Territory from the film Ten Canoes. In comparison, both films are alike as they are set in their native environment featuring landscapes of their natural surroundings, their cultural ways, and the indigenous people of the land.
Both the Inuit and Aborigine, utilize folktales of their ancestors, but the stories were told in much different ways. Ten Canoes utilizes a narrator to tell a story within a story to teach their young life lessons from their ancestors, while The Fast Runner was a story itself being retold through film directly to the public audience. It is very interesting how both stories mimicked each other dealing with unfaithful deceit and jealousy within the tribal families resulting in death, murder, lies, and sorrow. Dealing with negative …show more content…
Non-professional actors were used in both films giving indigenous authenticity to their daily lifestyles, social interactions, and spiritualism throughout both films. However, shamanism that was utilized in both films are treated very differently by the Inuit and the aborigines. The aborigines did not overly welcome the shaman, but did not turn him away when he came to give advice and seemed that a shaman is typical to have within the tribe. The Inuit shunned away the shaman and evil spirits even though the shaman did seem to do some good on the general attitude of the Iko after he ate the rabbit. Not many special effects were used throughout the film of The Fast Runner with the exception of the shaman fading away in the