ABSTRACT
Released in 2011, Wei Te-sheng's feature film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale became a blockbuster and a major socio-political event. This chapter addresses the aesthetic values and the film's historical representation, as well as its ethical focus on the indigenous people and culture which are so central to those debates. It emphasises the function of the movie as a cinematographic archive. Since its release, Seediq Bale has been a central topic in Taiwan's film industry for its social and political impact. In this regard, the chapter further considers its cinematic production in the context of contemporary Taiwanese socio-political conditions that are postcolonial. In addition to the disagreements about cinematic representation versus historical accuracy, one also needs to address the ethical concerns and historical attitudes that are revealed in the cinematic representation of a historical incident. The chapter considers Seediq Bale as a cinematographic archive, a reproduction of images and sounds of the Wushe Incident.
