exceptional artistic and historic care blend with charm cinematography and to render a visual experience that transcend into an emotional one . not just one church story . a universal story . youth against the world . virtue against violence . anyone can relate to this film . it combine all the element . you get a light hearted view of one young man experience in a remote and unusual part of the world and at a time when the world be just about to start shrink . there be family value . individual challenge . real life stress hurl from nature and cultural contrast . the photography be utterly charm in it balance . it be not a slow film and any more than castaway be a slow film . the difference between these two film be that one pit a single man against the world and against himself and while the other pit a young man against an utterly alien life which he manage to blend into his own . the slowness of the pacific island life be micro view to reveal that there be actually exciting and humorous detail of daily life while while macro view to show the occasional punctuation of extreme chaos and challenge and change and redirection . everyone win in this film . conflict range from mutual culture and social shock and to static compromise and and eventually up to complete resolution . see a south pacific adventure that be and for once and totally base on real life and real historic occurrence .