[ SECRET POST #3759 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3759 ⌋

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There was this thing we watched in 8th grade.

[(Anonymous)]

We were doing something on values. Anyway, there's this short film called Johnny Lingo (from 1969, apparently). Johnny Lingo is a shrewd, but honest and well-liked Polynesian trader. Lingo has come to one island to bargain for a wife. Mahana, the young woman he desires, is considered by her neighbors and even her father to be of little value— sullen, ugly, and undesirable. As the bargaining is about to begin, women of the island brag to each other of how many cows their husbands had given for each of them, and comment that Mahana's father will be lucky to see one cow as Lingo's offer. Instead, Lingo offers the unheard-of price of eight cows for her hand in marriage. Lingo brings the cows and subsequently marries Mahana that night, enduring some derision for a deal that many believe to be foolish, while Mahana’s father revels in his newfound prosperity. Johnny and Mahana then leave the island on a trading trip. When they come back, Mahana is a beautiful, happy woman. Even Mahana's father began accusing Johnny Lingo of cheating him by giving only eight cows for a girl truly worth ten cows. Johnny, her proud husband, had proved to her that her true worth had nothing to do with what others saw, but only what she truly was.

(It's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfahoLfrddU)