Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence
PG | 29 November 2002 (USA)
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In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

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Irishchatter

It really does break your heart that these aboriginal girls were kidnapped by the "whites" to be trained as slaves. It's like the African Americans being treated poorly by the whites. Really this world is corrupted as hell by worrying about where people grew up to be. Like both the aboriginals and the African Americans are still being treated poorly today. It's too bad during the movie, the two sisters never saw the third girl again after she was taken away. I wonder what did happen to her? At least the two girls were reunited with the mother and grandmother. Wonder where's the father? Lol. Seriously those movie is full of questions in your head!Really good movie especially Deborah Mailman from "The Sapphires" being involved in this!

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nicholls_les

The most disturbing thing about this movie is that it is true.Thankfully it relays a story that needs to be told about the Australian Government's policy of taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude in 1931 Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary.The film is surprisingly captivating considering that very little happens during the journey and the lead actress Everlyn Sampi who plays Molly is especially good. It is hard to believe that all the child actors and extras had never acted before this film.I would highly recommend this as a must watch movie.

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jojofjell

In this movie we get to see the true story about three aboriginal girls. They are all «half-caste» and belongs to the stolen generation. The kids were taken by force from their family and brought 1,500 miles away from their home, Jigalong, to Moon River where they were going to be taught to be servants. The girls, Molly, Daisy and Gracie managed to escape the camp and together the girls walked all the way back to Jigalong. Following only the rabbit proof fence. The girls are all over the news and everybody is looking for them to bring them back to Moon river. Mr. Neville is the man behind it all. He is the minister in charge of the half-caste people. He would do anything to bring them back to the camp again. The walk takes over 9 weeks and the girls have to go trough the rough landscape of the Australias desert. It is truly fascinating and also horrible to see the girls walk so long and with no food, or water. I really liked this movie. That is because it is a true story. Although it is a really dreadful history it is a great way to learn about what really happened in Australia so many years ago. It is a powerful story and an important movie. At the end in the movie we get to see two of the aboriginal girls that walked all the way back to Jiglalong. They are now over 80 years old and still alive. To see them on the footage was really fascinating.

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rosalide

!!!THIS MOVIE MIGHT INCLUDE SPOILERS!!!We're in Western Australia, 1931, and in his office, A. O. Neville (Mr. Devil), the government's official in dealing with aborigines and half castes. His job is to remove the "half caste"-children from their families and place them at the Moore River Native Settlement camp. Molly, Grace and Daisy are moved to the settlement camp and ever since arriving they hate it. Molly plans to escape the camp as soon as the possibility is there. When it arrives they run. They run as fast as they can and figures that the rabbit proof fence that crosses the land is the way to go. They follow the fence miles and miles, and they better clean their tracks because the camps skilled "tracker", Moodoo, is right behind them.I would give this movie a 7/10. It is a good movie but it is a movie for school purpose only, although some history-interested people might buy it. It is not a movie I would recommend for a nice evening at home.

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