Sentences with phrase «reluctant white father»

Whether it's as direct as a Māori Dennis the Menace — type kid (Julian Dennison) bonding with a reluctant white father (Sam Neill) in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) or as abstract as the outsider experience of Wellington's long - standing vampire society delineated in What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Waititi's movies exist at the nexus of native and colonizer cultures, the dichotomy that forms the basis of modern postcolonial theory.