Australia may not be the best film ever, but it's interesting. It's entertaining as a movie (albeit way too long), but to me it's really worth while for this reason: In between being a frontier love story with an unexpected amount of WW2 drama thrown in, it actually takes on the issue of Australia's stolen generation.
If you pay attention you learn a lot about the life of the narrator, a young boy of mixed blood. You get to see something of how life for someone like him was framed, and you learn a few things about the sometimes not so pretty history of Australia.I think it's brave. The only way to achieve change is to see clearly what came before us, right?
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did you ever see "The Rabbit Proof Fence"? It's the first film we got on Netflix and we were sold. babs
oops. that should read "rabbit-proof" babs
No, I did not. But it's going on the queue (my god that was hard to spell) right now.
My Australian friend is often ashamed of her country. She puts it that way too. So refreshingly honest.
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