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Running Head: FILM REVIEW: RABBIT PROOF FENCE 1
FILM REVIEW: RABBIT PROOF FENCE 2
ABOR2000: FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE
FILM REVIEW OF RABBIT PROOF FENCE
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
1) The Plot and Main Themes in Ra
it-Proof Fence 3
Plot 3
Key Themes 4
2) Critically Analysing Racism Displayed in Ra
it-Proof Fence 5
3) Significance of Ra
it-Proof Fence in Generating Knowledge for Aboriginal and To
es Strait Islanders’ Nursing Care 7
4) Reflection of Personal Feeling and Thoughts after Watching Ra
it-Proof Fence 8
Conclusion 9
References 10
Introduction
The Aboriginals and the To
es Strait Islanders of Australia have been the most prominent victims of racism. Although a country such as Australia offers high standards of healthcare to its citizens, it is found that the Aboriginals and To
es Strait Islanders are discriminated at the time of providing care. Despite the formation of legal frame that aims to cu
racism in Australia, it has to be admitted that racism is present as a part of social attitude. In the cu
ent assignment the film, Ra
it Proof Fence has been critically analysed as a specimen that projects the aspect of racism conducted towards Aboriginals and the To
es Strait Islanders, offer a scope for assessing the reasons for such a heinous social practice.
1) The Plot and Main Themes in Ra
it-Proof Fence
Plot
The main plot of the film Ra
it-Proof Fence is set in 1931, a time when the racism and stereotyping of Aboriginals and To
es Strait Islanders was much severe in its intensity. In the plot A.O. Neville, a white Australian, approves a law that allowed the local government to take mixed
ed children forcibly to an internment camp, situated at the side of river Moore. Two sisters and their cousin Daisy, Molly and Gracie fall victim to the newly passed law and are taken forcibly away from their mother, living in Jigalong. Seeking a favourable opportunity for escaping, the three mixed
ed girls escaped; following the 1500 miles long ra
it-proof fences that acted as a route map to their native place, Jigalong. Neville sends in Moodoo, another aboriginal after the girls, however, Moodoo failed to catch the girls, despite repeated attempts as the aboriginals helped the three girls. However, Gracie fell victim to a trap and is caught in Wiluna.
The two sisters, realising the fact that Gracie cannot escape again, they finished their journey without her and reached their native place Jigalong. A.O. Neville on the other hand gave up the chasing the two girls. In the following scene, an epilogue is presented, in which Daisy tells that Gracie died and she also mentions about her daughters, whom she eventually lost as they too were taken away forcibly. The film ends on a pessimistic note of gloom and eternal injustice implied upon the Aboriginals and To
es Strait Islanders (Australian Screen, 2018).
Key Themes
Racism in Australia
The premise of the film poses prominent evidences of racism in Australia. In the film, A.O. Neville as a white man saw the mixed
ed children in the aboriginal community as threat to their social supremacy. The girls in from the aboriginal community were sent to internment settlement camps supposedly to make them suitable to live within the white community. The notion of developing suitability for entering the white community showed the grave racism that existed in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s. As affirmed by Cook et al. (2018), the idea of racism developed from skin coloured stereotyping of human being that gradually became a social attitude.
Attempt of Cultural Oblivion
The core conflict of the film Ra
it-Proof Fence generates as the three mixed
ed girls are forcibly transfe
ed to internment camp by a white man, named A.O. Neville. The aims of A.O. Neville appears to be oblivion of the mixed
ed children in the Aboriginal community of Australia and teaching an entire generation of black skinned native Australians how to serve the white in a lifelong process. The forcible moving to the internment camp shows the attempt of the British colonialists’ attempt to cut newer generation off from their cultural roots, to prevent them from learning the native tradition of life and become a generation of rained servants. As supported by Waris (2018), the colonialists not only aimed at laundering the wealth of colonised nations, they also aimed to destroy native cultures to spread their own culture as an alternative.
Cruelty in the Disguise of Altruism
One of the key themes of the mentioned film is the depiction of cruelty in the disguise of altruism. The white man, A. O. Neville mercilessly separated mixed
ed children from their parents and native places and transfe
ed them to internment camps. The cruelty of the act is justified with the cover of altruism that makes us witness that Neville did everything as a part of improving the living standards of Aboriginals of Australia. The...