What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999)

Nov 15th, 2010 by cm1

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Once Were Warriors is a kick in the guts of a film. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted is its sequel, set five years later. Is it as good? Could it be? Probably not – movies like Once Were Warriors are one-offs. This movie is different, in some interesting ways. I think it is successful at what it tries to do, but that does not include outdoing Once Were Warriors.
Once Were Warriors was about the entire Heke family, but Beth Heke (Rene Owen) was the real focus. Beth was the person whose decisions shaped the story. This movie is not about Beth – she is happier, living with a welfare officer in middle-class conditions – we hardly see her. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted is about Jake (Temuera Morrison). It is about him confronting his problems, including realising that he has problems. It also shows him making friends, a different kind of friends. I love the scene where he meets two guys after he has a blow-out – these two burly Maoris blithely lift the back of the car to allow him to change the tyre
The movie is divided into two strands, two threads of narrative that we follow, switching frequently – it may sound hard to follow, but it isn’t. One thread follows Jake, beginning with him in the pub, almost exactly where we left him last time. The other thread follows Sonny, his son. Sonny did not appear in Once Were Warriors (I suspect he didn’t exist then, although he is clearly the eldest of the family – they needed another adult member of the family). It isn’t until almost the end of the film that the two threads are drawn together, with a bang. It’s an unusual means of storytelling, and very effective here.