Rabbit Proof Fence

[lilHinault]

Another GREAT movie!! Unfortunately, I think someone put the DVD in the microwave because it was continually skipping and crashing my DVD player program. I'm going to tell the library about that. Good good GOOD movie though, I'd not hesitate to buy it and I proably will.

Plot: Kidnapped (by white authorities) Aborigine children walk hundreds of miles along Australia's rabbit proof fence to get back home. Story is set in the 1930s.

[KingTermite]

Sounds cool.

I thought this post was going to be about needing to create a rabbit proof fence or soemthing. I was going to offer the help of my boys (http://www.kingtermite.net/publicstuff/TheBoys). :D

[* jack *]

saw it. loved it. cried.

'twas a true story, also.

[lilHinault]

Yes, the damb DVD skipping so bad, I had to stop trying to watch it about where the middle girl decides to stop walking, and I guess gets caught shortly after. I'll tell the library and they may have another copy to lend me, but I plan to buy it anyway, it's a GOOD movie.

[spud]

Its a true story too, not sure if that is understood from reading 1st post

[Wil Davis]

Great film, and if you pay attention at the end, you'll be astonished to find that the heroine did exactly the same epic walk under similar circumstances, for much the same reasons, later on in her life - but this time she had her young daughter with her. In the film, look out for Kenneth Branagh doing a great job portraying a somewhat misguided A. O. Neville, the administrator of the relocation policies of the time. David Gulpilil ("Walkabout") plays the aboriginal tracker sent after the young girls… Fabulous cinematography, great characters and very moving story.

- Wil

[sunninho]

Agree, great movie. I felt sad for the girls, but they were very smart and had tremendous heart and determination.

[lilHinault]

Yeah!! I got a copy brand new from the local Borders'n'Noble for like $12, and took the skippy one back to the library and told them it skips really bad, and they gave me a free DVD rental slip which I didn't really expect. I signed up something called Nil By Mouth about the kind of people in England who probably love VIZ Comic like I do (www.viz.co.uk). I looked for The Gods Must Be Crazy but could not find it at the book store or lib., oh well.

Hey now I can watch the rest of Rabbit Proof, I'm outta here, movie time!

[Guest]

Wow. Sounds like a great movie. I've always known about the practices of white Australians with Aboriginals, but never heard of any movies to tell the tales. I'll pick it up this week.

Koffee

[Fugazi Dave]

I still don't know how I haven't seen this yet. I mean, just the fact that it involves both Christopher Doyle and Peter Gabriel is enough reason for me to go buy it without even seeing it first.

[Serpico]

dude, there's a DVD thread that needs more posters/contributors around here ;)

[lilHinault]

Apparently the policy in the 1930s was, in the case of half-breeds, to assimilate the half-breeds into white society. Something about the creation of an 'unwanted third race'. Weird, since the US is almost a continuum, with no creating of "unwanted third races" since our "single drop of blood" theory/practice pretty much assigns everyone their racial place.

I don't see why the Aussies couldn't have just decided, OK, everyone here is an Australian citizen, and whoever wants to can go out in the bush and live the aboriginal lifestyle, and more power to you if you do. The US has been just as bad though with our own aboriginal people, I don't know why they weren't just made citizens and that's that. And anyone wants to go out into the plains and live in a teepee, go ahead. But the US has a long history of "de-indian'ing" Indian kids and punishing/recapturing whites who ran off to live with the Indians which quite a few did in the days of the colonies.

<rant> I want to get The Gods Must Be Crazy, but the book store and the library both don't have it on the shelf. Somehow the library has Triumph Of The Will starring Hitler, which I was dumb enough to borrow thinking it was the one about the 1936 olympics. Instead it's one long, arduous, political ad. I didn't even watch it through - it's proof that things got pretty bad in Germany in the 1930s that the Germans preferred that way of living to what they had before (starvation and near takeover by USSR puppet regime). You know anyone who professes to be a Nazi, plunk 'em down to see that thing and see if they can last until the end, that should instill a healthy distaste for that kind of regimented life - yuck.

But, why does the libary have Triumph Of The Will and not The Gods Must Be Crazy? Because one's a threat and one's not. Triumph is about our own way of life only taken a little more extreme. Gods, from what I've heard, points out what's wrong with our society. Watch Triumph and the worst that might happen is you might be inspired to work an extra job to buy a new BMW and a spiffy Nazi flag etc. Watch Gods and you might see how pointless the consumer treadmill is.
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[TexasGuy]

Apparently the policy in the 1930s was, in the case of half-breeds, to assimilate the half-breeds into white society. Something about the creation of an 'unwanted third race'. Weird, since the US is almost a continuum, with no creating of "unwanted third races" since our "single drop of blood" theory/practice pretty much assigns everyone their racial place.


I think in here, there is a lesson in real life versus what is portrayed by a movie. Fortunately time has for the most part swept there era and and mentality of thinking under the closet but the lesson is still there for those who dare look.

[lala]

It _is_ an amazing movie, because it is true.


Termite, your doggies are way cool!


Sounds cool.

I thought this post was going to be about needing to create a rabbit proof fence or soemthing. I was going to offer the help of my boys (http://www.kingtermite.net/publicstuff/TheBoys). :D

[Karldar]

Sounds like a must see.


I think in here, there is a lesson in real life versus what is portrayed by a movie. Fortunately time has for the most part swept there era and and mentality of thinking under the closet but the lesson is still there for those who dare look.

Now, what the hell does "swept...under the closet" mean?

[TheKillerPenguin]

I wound up seeing it because of this thread. Great movie, and I was amazed at the end to find out it was true.