This new movie, Cane Fire, seeks to tell a different story of Kauai. Trailer included. Do you plan to see it?
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This new movie, Cane Fire, seeks to tell a different story of Kauai. Trailer included. Do you plan to see it?
Cane fire behind my house Lived in Puhi yes don’t wash clothes on that day or after they burn the cane……. plenty sooth black will damage your clothes!!!!!!!! Always Had a Garden planted in the back yard…… headcabbage, Manoa lettuce ,eggplant, corn,asparagus,green beans,soybeans, plenty veggies chinese cabbage, mustard cabbage………….we grew all our veggies……….
Where can we see the film? We don’t have a movie theatre in Lihue anymore, can we stream it?
As with most stories of Hawaii, CANE FIRE would seem to be influenced by a limited point of view, fixated on exploitation.
We are all, of course, “exploited” in many ways–by government, by big business, by demands necessary for certain goals we may set for ourselves. The “exploitaiton” is sometimes means to an end, a way for the “exploited” to move ahead, get a foothold that can lift one to the next level. Hawaii looked damn good to many impoverished people from other countries that came to work. And for a good many years, Hawaii’s agricultural workers were among the highest paid in the world. There’s little question that the “exploitation” many workers went through eventually benefited their children and their chlldren’s children.
Are you kidding me? After exploiting Chinese (slave) labor to build the first transcontinental railroad from the West Coast, the. Chinese labor returned to California only to have the Hawaiian Plantation owners say “Have we got a deal for you.” Except in Hawaii the Chinese (slave) labor were put in man camps where they couldn’t escape because they were trapped on an island. Not so sure the Chinese laborers who hand cut sluiceways down and through mountains and lava rock would agree with your romanticized view.
When and where can we see the movie? Netflix, hulu??
Will this film be shown in California?
Hawaii tourism was only for the wealthy until the 1960s because of the cost of travel by ocean liner or airplane. The “jumbo jet” made flights less expensive, which, coupled with statehood, launched the era of mass tourism.
Our family lived in a sugar plantation home across the Koloa Sugar mill.It was a short distance for my dad to walk to work.Our family have fond memories living there
Finally the truth comes out!!