Rabbit Proof Fence (DVD)

Molly, Daisy and Gracie are half-caste Aboriginal children growing up on the Jigalong Settlement in Western Australia with their families and according to traditional ways. They hunt their food in the bush, retain their language, their rituals and values. Their fathers? were white men who worked along the rabbit-proof fence and they have no contact with them. The situation works well for all ? or so you would think. However this is 1931 and the Australian Government had introduced a policy to remove all half-caste children from their homes, their families and their lives and transport them to re-settlement centres. Why? So they could either enter domestic ...  Read the complete review

'Rabbit Proof Fence' is one of a personal trilogy of films which includes 'Lantana' and 'Black and White' (the last of which was shown at the Regus London Film Festival, and sadly may not achieve general release in this country). What these three fantastic films represent to me is a realisation that not only does Australia produce fantastic films of a quirky or humorous bent, but also that it produces brilliant serious dramas or films that are of a thought-provoking nature. The similarities between 'Rabbit Proof Fence' and 'Black and White' are fairly self-evident. Both films consider the treatment of the indigenous Aboriginal ...  Read the complete review

(film only review) By chance I watched two Australian films in one week, first Australia and then Rabbit-Proof Fence (RPF). What a difference! It's Big v. Small, a budget of 130 mill. $, 70 actors, a runtime of 165 minutes (Australia) v. 6 mill. $, 15 actors and a runtime of 94 minutes (RPF). Yet, the two films have something in common and that is the topic of the Stolen Generations, the darkest chapter in Australian history. It's only one topic among others in Australia whereas it is the sole one in RPF. About 10,000 mixed-race children of Aboriginal descent "were removed from their families by the Australian and State government agencies and ...  Read the complete review

Rabbit Proof Fence refers to the fence which used to stretch all the way across the length of Australia, to keep the rabbits to the north and the farmland to the south separate. This film tells the shocking true story of Molly Craig, who, at the age of 14, was taken away from her aboriginal family with her sister, Daisy and cousin, Gracie; driven to a Christian correction camp 1500 miles west, from which she escaped, and then walked all the way home by following the fence. This practice of taking “half-caste” aborigines was perpetrated by the Australian government until as recently as 1970, which makes it all the more disturbing. It is based on the book written by ...  Read the complete review

Well KM saw this film at the cinema, hey anything about Australia and she?s there! She enjoyed every single minute. So when the opportunity came to watch this again, she wanted to write about it and let you all know how great this film is. * Story * At the beginning of the film we are told that Mr A O Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines, ordered the removal of any half caste child from their family within the state of Western Australia. He is the ?legal guardian? of every Aborigine in WA. The first few scenes of the Aboriginal families, shown in Jigalong, are played with subtitles. We are shown how they live and how they interact with one ...  Read the complete review