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acolthart

Amazing story about three aboriginal children traveling 1500 miles to get back to their family. Rabbit-proof fence is brilliantly acted and carries a haunting message about a side of Australia that seems to have been covered up. The only criticism I have on the film is that it was a bit disneyfied, they should have tried to make it more controversial and harder for the audience to watch. The Comic Sans font made me laugh too.

10 years 2 months ago

bartleby187

Such a sad reality in Australian history. a time when they'd take Aboriginal children away from their family to bring them up in a "civilized" world and pair them off to white men to increase their chances of giving birth to white children. here is a true story of the bravery of three sisters who escaped to go back home

12 years 4 months ago

Woliver

Great one, but the tittles are written with comic sans!

12 years 2 months ago

Siskoid

I don't love movies about human misery, which is what Rabbit-Proof Fence seemed to promise. In the 1930s, Australia's policies regarding Natives had them kidnap kids to reeducated them in occidental culture (as did Canada, and both countries did it far past the 30s), with the added wrinkle of a eugenics program designed to breed the Native out through marriages with whites. It's ghastly, and Kenneth Branagh plays this as an evil that believes itself a good. It's not his film, however, and it's barely about the reeducation center the young leads are sent to. Rather, it's about their escape and subsequent months-long trek through the wilderness to get back home (and the authorities may or may not be waiting for them to arrive). If it hadn't actually happened, you probably wouldn't believe it. The eldest of the three girls, Molly, is played with smoldering intensity by Everlyn Sampi, who doesn't look her 14 years, and she manages to carry the film. So though it is a downer of an issues film (most are), it IS more about cultural resilience and therefore feels like a victory, albeit a Pyrrhic one.

3 months ago