White Justice (1978) watch online HD

The film, which is more of a documentary, unfortunately is rather forgotten. It addresses some important issues and is especially interesting for lawyers, anthropologists and people alike. Take for example enforcement of our western law system on indigenous people, who have often have a rather different set of traditional and customary rules. The movie also tackles mistranslation which can occur when we try to explain our legal values to the local Inuit. In the film, for a trial the defense gets two hours in total to prepare for a case, ditto for the prosecutionar.

It's difficult to explain the Inuit people why so little time is available for, in many cases, very important decisions. There are many examples in the film where the Canadian government shows a serious lack of consideration in taking the local traditions of dealing with crime serious. The Canadian judge in the film states it like this: 'modern ways are here, you can't go back to the past'. Is that the case or are we just being ignorant? The rather low quality of the editing, color, etc. is a bit of a shame. The message the film wishes to address still makes it interesting and important nevertheless.