The Tattooist (2007)
Robbie Magasiva: Alipati
Quotes
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Alipati : When you handed down your tools... what else did you pass onto me? outsider cut himself with this tool
Mr. Va'a : [dismissive] Outsider is an idiot
Alipati : He thinks a spirit took form and is moving through him... a wandering bitter Samoan trying to end his shame
Mr. Va'a : You believe in such stories?
Alipati : You taught them too me! He told me he dreamed of a young man with a necklace of whale bones locked in a shed... your shed
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Mr. Perenese : [On Mr. Va'a] He should pay for what he has done
Alipati : Then let him live... with the shame
Mr. Perenese : [throws a machete down in front of Va'a] You no longer have the right to wear that mark
[forces Va'a to cut the tatu from his skin]