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This is a classic case of clash of two cultures, notably, the two largely irreconcilably Tongan and Western ways of knowing, seeing, and doing things. On the one hand, we have the six island-marooned Tongan boys, who by virtue of their struggle for survival were at best disinterested, innocent and 'naive,' and on the other, we have two business-minded Westerners, one Mr Peter Warner who rescued them from the island (the rescuer) and the other Mr Rutger Bregman (the author) who retrieved their long-forgotten 50-year old survival story from the archives. If this amazing story of human survival gets to be put into a film, then we must overcome a long and surely expansive series of tedious legal battles over the singularly, lineally so-called Western-defined 'rights,' namely, the rights of the boys' rescue by Mr Warner who sold it to Chanel 7 and the film rights of their story now a book held by Mr Bregman (probably versus Mr Warner and Chanel 7). Evidently, the major losers are the boys and the big winners are Mr Warner (and Chanel 7) and Mr Bregman. From a truly humanitarian perspective, there needs to be some sense of restorative justice intervened and mitigated this strictly Western-defined black-and-white legal process, both fairly, evenly and equally, equitably.