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Kasis Road (review)

Kasis Road (review) media reviews caused by an expanding population. The film depicts people with dignity and self-respect, most of whom are trying to live decently under increasing pressures. Although the acting seems a little uncertain at the very beginning of the film, any awkwardness soon recedes into the background: the performances are heartfelt, the problems clearly problems that the actors know and identify with. The film is well made, and most competently directed. It is a film with a message, aimed at community leaders and government in Vanuatu, advocating contraception. In Vanuatu, as in a number of other Pacific countries, population growth is an extremely serious problem. Fifty percent of the population is under eighteen. The settlements around Port Vila are full of small children, many of whom are pikinini lo rod (children of the road), that is, children without a place, children without a father. Community leaders find it difficult to deal with the issue of contraception. As the film shows, there is church opposition to it; there is also inertia in the government. Only in the last three or four years have the old begun to feel overwhelmed by the young in Vanuatu, but already the pressures on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Kasis Road (review)

Bolton, Lissant
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 12 (1) – Feb 1, 2000
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media reviews caused by an expanding population. The film depicts people with dignity and self-respect, most of whom are trying to live decently under increasing pressures. Although the acting seems a little uncertain at the very beginning of the film, any awkwardness soon recedes into the background: the performances are heartfelt, the problems clearly problems that the actors know and identify with. The film is well made, and most competently directed. It is a film with a message, aimed at community leaders and government in Vanuatu, advocating contraception. In Vanuatu, as in a number of other Pacific countries, population growth is an extremely serious problem. Fifty percent of the population is under eighteen. The settlements around Port Vila are full of small children, many of whom are pikinini lo rod (children of the road), that is, children without a place, children without a father. Community leaders find it difficult to deal with the issue of contraception. As the film shows, there is church opposition to it; there is also inertia in the government. Only in the last three or four years have the old begun to feel overwhelmed by the young in Vanuatu, but already the pressures on

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The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Feb 1, 2000

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