Rabbit Proof Fence

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After being forcibly removed from their homes and placed in a government camp, three young aboriginal girls escape and attempt the 1500 mile walk home relying on their wits and ingenuity to keep them one step ahead of the constabulary and a native tracker. They need to find the rabbit fence that might just guide them on their way.

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Documentary - 'Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence; Audio commentary by director.

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Review by Howard Schumann on 24th September 2003

Set in Western Australia in 1931, Rabbit-Proof Fence, a film by Australian director Phillip Noyce, is a scathing attack on the Australian government's ‘eugenics’ policy toward aboriginal half-castes. For six decades, continuing policies begun by the British, the government of Australia forcibly removed all half-caste (mixed race) aborigines from their families "for their own good" and sent them to government camps where they were raised as servants, converted to Christianity, and eventually assimilated into white society.


The film tells the true story of three aboriginal girls, 14-year old Molly Kelley, her 8-year old sister Daisy, and their 10-year old cousin Gracie, who escaped from confinement in a government camp and set off for home across the vast and lonely Australian Outback. It is a simple story of indomitable courage, told with honest emotion. Christopher Doyle magnificently photographs the stunning Australian landscape, and a haunting score by Peter Gabriel translates natural sounds of birds, animals, wind and rain into music that adds feeling and ‘dreamtime’ to the journey.


The performances by amateur actors Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, and Laura Monaghan are authentic and heartbreakingly affecting. Though the white officials and police are characterized as smug and unfeeling, they are more like bureaucrats carrying out official policies than true villains. Based on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara (Molly Kelly’s daughter), Rabbit-Proof Fence is an honest film that avoids sentimentality and lets the courage and natural wisdom of the girls shine through. Hopefully, it will become a vehicle for justice and reconciliation.

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Review by Zed on 14th February 2004

A truely fascinating film about 3 half casts that get taken away from their mother, and escape a camp place to attempt the 1500 mile walk back to their Mom. With Molly being the oldest, Gracie and daisy look up to her and she chooses what they do. On their journey they meet lots of other people, and they help out by giving them food and water.
This is an amazing film of many, a good choice to findout what racism is like and how racist people treat half-casts.

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