Review of Trouble in the Garden

I found this film to be really bland with no real plot. Firstly, it's unrealistic that Pippi would ever get bailed out by her estranged "white brother". That's right, I said white because it seems that many Native characters in film always get adopted by white families. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence in real life and in film. It appears to me that Pippi can't ever just get to be herself, her own person with her own Indigenous culture. That's all she ever needed in this film. But it was never about her but rather the white family that she only knew. Again here, as with so many other films where Natives are the main characters, the focus is on whites "saving them" from harm. Even for this Canadian made film, Natives are always put on the backburner. Anyway, for bland film, I still give this one a 7 out of 10.