The fast runner: Atanarjuat movie analysis

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The Fast Runner Website www.isuma.tv/atanarjuat is a website that gives the appropriate information to relevant audiences about the film Atanarjuat. The website has links for watching the trilogy of the Fast Runner and a list of awards that the film has won since its inception. The list also includes the dates in which the awards were won. The website also gives some background information about the Igloolik community of 1200 people that is located in a small Island in the northern region of Baffin in the Canadian Arctic with archeological evidence of more than 4000 years of continuous habitation of the area. The website gives some specific information that the culture of the nomadic Inuit was renewed without the use of any written language over the millennia. The film Atanarjuat is part of the culture that was spread through the use of storytelling. The oral history was carried forward into new millennia through the marriage of new technology and the storytelling skills of the Inuit population. Atanarjuat is a film written, acted, produced and directed by Inuit, and it is set in ancient Igloolik about a life-threatening struggle between supernatural and powerful natural characters. The legend of Atanarjuat was kept alive by elders to teach the younger generation about the dangers of setting personal desires above the interests or needs of the group. These are relevant issues in the course of anthropology in the sense that it shed some light on how cultural values are spread over generations and the purpose of such dissemination of these values to other generations. It enables the audience to be able to picture how the Igloolik people lived in the past and the impact of modernity on their cultures. From an anthropological perspective, it sheds some light and gives an authentic view of Inuit culture as well as oral tradition than before through Inuit eyes and from an insider's perspective. The main objective of the film was to show how the Inuit communities have thrived and survived in the Arctic region and also to introduce a new medium of storytelling using film to assist the communities survive and their cultures to be propagated into the technological future. The film itself seems to be propagating aspects of oral traditions to tell the same story that has been told for years on end. The movie captures some simple political and social organisations as well as economic activities such as hunting and gathering. The Inuit legend is told of a small community of nomadic people whose lives are disrupted when a Shaman, who is unknown, creates some rivalries between families. The very existence of family implies a social organisation with families as a considerable social and political unit to the extent that they could be pitted against each other based on prevailing issues at any given time as the Shaman managed to achieve. The close-knit communities are dependent on one another for their survival and are surrounded by a landscape of snow and ice. Here people make a living in an environment that looks like barren wasteland. There is fishing and hunting as economic activities. There is a scene showing hunters preparing a kill and scraping their skins to make clothes. Some tend to the lamps of oil that give light to their igloos and others harvest the wild crops that grow briefly in summer time. In one of the scenes, the men of Igloolik sit outside on the ice hunting seals and Sauri is stabbed in the stomach by Oki. This is representative if the hunting aspect of social life of the Igloolik. Qulitalik was also chewing on a walrus-skin bag to bring forth the spirits. This was in a community gathering that evening and it implied that someone had hunted down and slaughtered a walrus. The evil shaman also appears while blowing and grunting with the echo of a polar bear. The Qulitalik also has a curved pair of tusks in this mouth. The interchanging use of the animals in the story represents the hunting culture of the community where they seemed to hunt everything and anything. The film also portrays a number of marriages, kinship and political systems that were heavily dependent on elders. The elders provided counsel to the heads of the families that represents some form of hierarchical order of the social structure. These structures are also shown when during the section of the movie where Sauri is brought to Igloolik on a sled. While people mourn and cry, the walrus tooth necklace which was a representation of leadership is removed from his body and placed around Oki. This shows that there was some form of political structure and structure of leadership that was identifiable through the use of trinkets such as necklaces. An oral tradition refers to oral folklore and cultural materials and traditions that are transmitted orally from one generation to the next for further transmission to other generations. The cultural and historic traditions of a community are usually passed down using word of mouth from one generation to the next without written instructions. The importance of oral traditions are that they sustain a culture in a more personal and specific sense due to the way they are handed down to younger generations either through folklores and storytelling and in other cases serious teaching in traditional ceremonies. In oral traditions, testimonies and messages are verbally transmitted in song and in speech and take form of various elements such as saying, chants, ballads, songs and folk tales. This way members of a given society are able to transit oral literature, law and history as well as knowledge across different generations without having to use any writing systems. Oral traditions relate to the fast runner in the sense that the traditions and cultural practices of the community are handed down from one generation to the next orally. The fast runner is an audio-visual account of the traditions and cultures as well and falls under the category of oral traditions in a figurative sense. The film also transcends the barriers set years ago and where not yet overcome until the film was eventually produced and published. It is a movie that supports the indigenous activities because it has the ability to preserve a heritage that has been held down and oppressed by stereotypes for centuries. The director of the movie explores oral traditions as stores and lectures and especially with a reference on how life should be lived. The film is essentially the retelling of an Inuit legend that was passed down through centuries through the use of oral traditions. The legend of Atanarjuat is used by the elders to teach the subsequent generations the moral about why they should place the needs of the community or for others above their own personal desires.
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In the Website, www.isuma.tv/atanarjuat, one can get the right information about the
movie Atanarjuat. There are links in the website, for watching Fast Runner trilogy and a place to
view all the dates and the awards that video has won since it was produced. Also, background
information about Igloolik community, which has approximately 1200 people is available on the
website. The website presents over 4000 years archeological evidence of continuous habitation
of this community, and their nomadic culture while living in an island located in the North of
Baffin in the Arctic of Canada. It is also evident that the nomadic Inuit culture changed without
the application of any formal means, such as writing over the times. The film Atanarjuat is a
cultural element depicted through storytelling. The oral history was passed from one generation
to the other through excellent storytelling skills of the Inuit people combined with new
technology. The writer, actor, produc...


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