Thursday, November 11, 2010
The Rabbit- Proof Fence
The Rabbit Proof Fence was an excellent movie. I really liked it. It kept you at the edge of your seat and it was intense with its back round music. I learned a lot about the Aboriginies culture and the way the Europeans treated them. I didn't think it was fair to take away their half-cast children and breed the black out of them, just because they didn't want two cultures, they wanted dominate white. They wouldn't let them speak their own language; they taught them proper English. They wouldn't let them wear their own clothes; they would dress them properly how the Europeans would dress. They changed everything in their life; everything that they had learned, everything that they were taught, was now forbidden to practice. They treated them fairly. They didn't kill them and put them into furnaces and have concentration camps where they would kill them. They gave them good food, and as long as you obeyed, they wouldn't hit you and punish you. My thought was, why would you take the children from the parents.? It's bad enough the parents have to keep hiding them from the Europeans. I felt really bad when the men came and took gracie, and Molly and Daisy never saw there sister again. What I didn't understand was, why did they call them half-casts? I understood that they were half of two cultures, but I didn't get casts. It was amazing how Molly knew that that man was lying to her and her sisters about their mom waiting for them at the train station. Its like she read his mind he was going to turn them in. It amazed me how this had been going on for years and the government just recently apologized for what they had done was wrong. But its to late for sorry, saying sorry wouldn't bring back the souls who went through the pain and stress they went through.
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