Rabbit Proof-Fence Analyse Anglais

Phillip Noyce came back with another film about the Aboriginal people after GOD ONLY KNOWS WHY, BUT IT WORKS. This time we immerse on the situation of the Stolen Generations, in the 30s, when the Australian Government started collecting the mixed blood children to teach them their culture, and this way, they could suppress the half-blooded children.

RABBIT PROOF-FENCE is a drama film based on the book FOLLOWING THE RABBIT PROO-FENCE by Doris Pilkington. It's based on a true story of the author's mother experience, where her and two other Aboriginal girls were snatched away from their families by the Chief Protector of Aborigines and had to go to Moore River. But their will and love for their origins lead them to scape using the rabbit proof-fence, that was built to stop the plague of rabbits from farm land, as a guide.

In their way back, they will meet different people that will show the different Australian settlers and their beliefs. It will cover themes like the discrimination and different roughness upon the Aboriginal but also the courage, wisdom and determination of the three girls.

The main actors, with no experience in the entertainment world, dive you to their situation as if you were them with a realistic and moving acting. Everlyn Sampi (Molly), Tianna Sansbury (Daisy) and Laura Monaghan (Gracie) are three girls with a strong connection with the Aboriginal culture. Only their acting could do the scenes that a simply child would only make him look cute and even a veteran would have problems with. The simplicity of their body language and facial expression shows that they're still young and the brutality they had suffered.

Kenneth Branagh doing the role of A. O. Neville has left a chill on his viewers backs. Even when he’s a secondary character, Branagh has done an amazing performance. With a simple portrait psychologic and only a few scenes for him, the most difficult part was to show his position in this dark story of the Stolen Generations: the belief that his intentions were “well-meaning and for the Aboriginal sake”. And this is something that exclusively Branagh’s comprehension with Neville and skills to show it had made possible, for us spectators, to feel it.

Nevertheless, although the screenwriter, Christine Olsen, and Noyce denied the political intention, the film has acquired an overflowing emotion of political force and became an important piece for the success of reconciliation movement in Australia. At the same time, different Conservative people criticized the authenticity of the facts in the film and the Neville's portrayal arguing that he was not a racist person, that they didn't have sex with underage people, etc. It's true that Noyce that time had been more interested in fantasy but that’s not an argument, plus, it's thanks to that the landscape aspires some sort of mythic air that shows the outback of Australia like nobody has ever done.

A bonus is the ambient created by soundtracks that plunge the spectators in the Aboriginal Australia. The soundtrack Long Walk Home by Peter Gabriel didn't deceive the public with a beautiful mix of the didgeridoo, a traditional Aboriginal instrument, and others instruments.

Emotionally captivating, RABBIT

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