Here are some of Australia’s most praised film productions.
During the 1930s in Australia, half-caste Aborigines were a major issue for the government. A. O. Neville is the man who was put in charge by the government to deal with all issues relating to Aborigines. Law gave him the right to take half caste children( children of both Aboriginal and white parentage) to reeducate and assimilate them into the white society as servants to white people. The government reasoning behind this policy was that eventually the Aborigine blood and genes would be bred out over the succeeding generations, once the half castes were successfully assimilated into white culture and society. In this film, 3 young girls are seized under this law. Once being placed into a native settlement camp, Molly, her sister Daisy and their cousin Gracie decide to escape and return home to their mother. By following the 3000 kilometer rabbit proof fence through the desert and unforgiving Australian outback, they attempt to find their way home.
The trailer follows the girls as they are ripped from their mothers embrace and shuttled off to a settlement camp. From there their plan begins to take shape, as they go up against not only the weather and climate, but Neville’s trackers who are hired to hunt them down before they reach their home. This film touches and moves us, as we begin to understand the atrocious crimes committed against the native people of Australia in the past.
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Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
During the 1930s in Australia, half-caste Aborigines were a major issue for the government. A. O. Neville is the man who was put in charge by the government to deal with all issues relating to Aborigines. Law gave him the right to take half caste children( children of both Aboriginal and white parentage) to reeducate and assimilate them into the white society as servants to white people. The government reasoning behind this policy was that eventually the Aborigine blood and genes would be bred out over the succeeding generations, once the half castes were successfully assimilated into white culture and society. In this film, 3 young girls are seized under this law. Once being placed into a native settlement camp, Molly, her sister Daisy and their cousin Gracie decide to escape and return home to their mother. By following the 3000 kilometer rabbit proof fence through the desert and unforgiving Australian outback, they attempt to find their way home.
The trailer follows the girls as they are ripped from their mothers embrace and shuttled off to a settlement camp. From there their plan begins to take shape, as they go up against not only the weather and climate, but Neville’s trackers who are hired to hunt them down before they reach their home. This film touches and moves us, as we begin to understand the atrocious crimes committed against the native people of Australia in the past.
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