The Importance of Authenticity in Film

The film was made in 2002 when we don't really have this awareness of authenticity and representing, you know, BIPOC communities and cultures. I would say for its time, it did pretty good. They clearly did research and the details that they put in the film. So let's try to show people like they did their research, like they were trying to depict our culture for a reason. It's not random, but yeah, whatever. Um, yeah, I was rewatching it again and just looking at, oh, they showed this so well. And then I think there was like one part in the film where the hula teacher was speaking Hawaiian to the students, like the