Determinants In 'Blood Brothers'

ONCE WERE WARRIORS

The 3 determinants that had the most impact and influence on Jake’s life throughout the film would have had to be the addiction to drinking, his early life and becoming unemployed at the beginning of the movie.

It shows Jake at the fish store at the opening of the film as we continue we find out that he gets let go which is terrible as he still has a family to feed and a rent to pay.
He applies for the dole but with that income he mostly uses it to feed his addiction, he is a regular drinker. He would spend hours drinking and wasting money on drinks and when he drank he became violent and abusive which was most likely from his early life and coming from a long line of slaves which he still classifies/views himself as and

He chose to be a heavy drinker at the expense of his family’s welfare and waste money on drinks instead of saving up for their own house like Beth mentioned at the beginning of the movie. When Beth was telling him about going to visit Boogie as a family he was willing to put the money in but in the long run, it didn’t do her much good as they never even made it to the boys

The determinants that impacted on Nig would have had to be his support network, early life, and the environment he was around.

Nig is the oldest, his angry and rebellious. He joins a gang named TOA AOTEAROA who sport traditional Maori facial tattoos and consider themselves warriors. In any case, they appear to have forgotten the traditional way of Maori warriors and are really just a gang of violent thugs. Nig would rather be with them than his own biological family, which seems to be because of how his early life involved Jake beating up Beth and made him despise Jake and didn’t want to be in that sort of

They each took it in a different approach. Jake's manhood was his muscles and his dominance to whoever tried to cross him. His first son Nig decided to join a gang and tattoo himself as a way of showing his manhood and Boogie was put in a boys home where he learned that his manhood came from the inner strength he had.
The gender roles are portrayed throughout the entire film; men are expected to be "manly", to act tough, and to display their strength through violence providing a warning, earning the respect of others. Beth is portrayed as property and is told to "just do what she is told!" its as if she is not meant to speak her thoughts and if she was she would get beaten. Nig After the night Beth had gotten beaten by Jake, while grace was cleaning up the next morning Nig tells her she should get used to tidying up after men like that’s the main thing that’s expected of her once again references gender