The movie does not explore Moodoo's motivations, or conflicts. But he must have felt some of both, not least because his own daughter was an inmate at Moore River.
Should Moodoo have been true to his race and protected the girls, or was he pursuing the only course of action he could take to support himself and his family? What do you think? Top cast Edit. Kenneth Branagh A. Neville as A. David Gulpilil Moodoo as Moodoo. Deborah Mailman Mavis as Mavis.
Garry McDonald Mr. Neal at Moore River as Mr. Neal at Moore River. Phillip Noyce. More like this. Storyline Edit. Western Australia, Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary.
Their pursuers take orders from the government's "Chief Protector of Aborigines", A. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive? If you were kidnapped by the government, would you walk the miles back home? Rated PG for emotional thematic material.
Likewise, what was the camp called in Rabbit Proof Fence? Also Know, what does the fence symbolize in Rabbit Proof Fence? The fence symbolises hope and the will to live, whenever we see it the hopeful music begins. The fence is an important symbol in the film. It not only highlights the split between the European and Aboriginal culture, it represents a link between mother and daughter. When the trio stumble across a remote farmhouse and its Aboriginal domestic servant at the minute mark in the full film above , Mavis Deborah Mailman , its promise of respite is swiftly snuffed by the intrusion of Mavis's master.
Today, the Rabbit Proof fence , now called the State Barrier Fence , stands as a barrier to entry against all invasive species such as dingoes, kangaroos and emus, which damage crops, as well as wild dogs which attack livestock.
The most interesting character of all is Moodoo David Gulpilil , the Aborigine tracker hired by the mission to recapture fugitive children. He is a man caught between two cultures, paid by the whites to help enslave his own people yet helpless to leave their employ — his own daughter is an inmate at Moore River.
Is Rabbit Proof Fence accurate? Many school teachers think it is an accurate portrayal of history. It is anything but. Dressed in a ragged shift and plimsolls, Molly has only the vaguest idea of heading north; then a kindly farmer's wife happens to mention the rabbit-proof fence not far away, and thus presents a vital clue to orientation.
The fence, built to keep the rabbits off pasture land, bisects the country north to south, and Molly knows that following it will, eventually, take them home. The film is directed by Phillip Noyce, who once spearheaded the new Australian cinema with spiky, intelligent movies such as Newsfront and Heatwave. His career over the past 10 years, however, spent as a hired gun shooting Hollywood rubbish The Saint, The Bone Collector , inclined one to think he'd given up making films that meant anything.
A pleasure to be proved wrong: there is proper confidence in this picture, not least because Noyce has recruited some brilliant technicians. His cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, films the polychromatic Australian landscape quite stunningly, modulating between parched browns, grey-greens, green on black, even black on black, with a canopy of bleached denim sky stretching out to infinity.
Silhouettes shimmer against a heat haze, the sun a fireball on the horizon — and miles to go before they sleep. Craig Carter's sound design also contributes vitally to the film's texture, a busily reverberant backdrop of cicadas, birdsong, animal ululations, wind and rain, which Peter Gabriel's music has synthesised into notes: I'm not sure how he did this the soundtrack took him nine months but the results are extraordinary.
Noyce has also given his child actors room to develop naturalistic performances, determined not to let any stage-school cutes milk the pathos. Everlyn Sampi's mixture of self-possession and wit will be hard to forget.
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