How you got any of that from this movie is surprising to me, first the concept of good vs evil is a southern thing, in the north it was chaos vs order. Druids are celts, there were no chieftains among the Saami, he was a Noadi, or Shaman. Also, he covered his mouth so he would not cry out and then slit his throat in a very HUMANE way. In any case you are projecting all kinds of issues that have nothing to do with the legend or the Saami people.

thanks for your comment. yes, they're all personal impressions. i meant druid as a generic term for a shaman type, who'd often double as a community leader, like a chieftain. The key scene in this film to me is when the pathfinder appears to the boy and explains it is through breathing that all life is interconnected and the Tchudes are like dead-men walking because they ignore this. The Tchude stops the pathfinder from breathing before killing him. That seemed to me like a deliberate reference to & mocking of his shamanic beliefs. I wouldn't see it as humane. But the most logical explanation of it is neither; namely, that the Tchudes promised the boy they would let the pathfinder live if he helped them. If they didn't cover his mouth, the boy would've heard his scream and known they'd killed him straight away and that he'd been betrayed the moment he turned his back. As it is, he discovers that betrayal only later, when he'd already led the Tchudes to the villagers. I still see the film like an ultimate frontier survival film. I don't know Saami culture, but I'm also from "the north" and this film could capture the historical imagination of anyone who'd heard tales of roman, viking or norman invasions against defenseless natives. the villagers are like sitting ducks because they are not of the warrior class; all they have is their pathfinder/shaman. that is their way of life; it's not that of warriors. maybe not a simple good or evil thing, but it's not far off. they fear the warriors like angels of death. any native populations facing incoming invaders with military technology would know the same. yet are the Tchudes supposed to be foreigners or natives that have simply abandoned a way of life? to me, that was not clear. but it seemed like they were ex-soldiers of a foreign military force who simply ravaged the land, killing native people with as little thought as if they were killing fowl@@bruanlokisson8615