Directed by Phillip Noyce
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.
Generación robada, Der lange Weg nach Hause, 토끼 울타리, Long Walk Home, La generazione rubata, Le Chemin de la liberté, A Vedação, 1200 mérföld hazáig, ארוכה הדרך הביתה, Çit, Geração Roubada, Ο Μακρύς Δρόμος του Γυρισμού, Ограда против зайци, Клітка для кроликів, Клетка для кроликов, Polowanie na króliki, 末路小狂花, 漫漫回家路, Varastetut lapset, 裸足の1500マイル
Canada14A 
Denmark11 
Norway12 
AustraliaPG 
USAPG 
Hong Kong 
FranceU 
Germany12 
CzechiaU 
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This is one of those movies based on a true story that you’d watch in high school and at the end of it, you’d be like “wow, that was a good movie.”
But what you really meant was “I’m glad we watched a movie about that instead of looking at a PowerPoint.”
Australian history is is built on racism. The Europeans tried to whitewash Australia by massacring and outlawing the native aboriginals for the 250 years white settlement has been on Australian Soil. Rabbit Proof Fence focuses on a story of the stolen generation. The stolen generation, to put simply is where aboriginal children were stolen from their homes and family and taken to camps to be trained to become more white. The movie follows the truestory of three girls who escape one of these camps and return home. While this isn’t a technical marvel and the acting isn’t great, it’s an important story that needs to be told and reflected on. As I live in Australia and European blood this honestly made my skin…
Lol comic sans
Beautiful cinematography by Christopher Doyle
Incredible score by Peter Andre
Amazing work from the young actors
Imho when the story is this profound then the plot should be as simple as this.
To any fellow non-Aboriginal Australians on here writing pithy little reviews about the comic sans titles or the fact you had to watch this at school, I do hope that you’re at least thinking about the profound generational trauma that resonates from the events that are being depicted in this film.
We can all understand how devastating it is for a child to be taken from their mother.
Humans are so shit to humans sometimes.
This is not the most technically proficient movie. The acting is not spectacular either. It is however, my favorite Australian movie (it's a close call with Mary & Max).
Rabbit Proof Fence has a deeply profound theme, and as someone with only a few dozen years to pass through this stunning golden land that has been inhabited by the aborigine's for thousands of years, it really moved me.
The white Europeans have a lot to answer for. I'm not convinced that it will ever be possible to make up for the horrors imposed on the native peoples of Australia and ultimately what was done to their homeland. This movie illustrates one of these horrors, something known as The Stolen Generations. Using…
Literally zero rabbits in this film
This is also a movie I watched at school - that means I watched it over the course of 7 weeks. So it's difficult to rate.
Cinematic Time Capsule
2002 Marathon - Film #20
”Where are we going?”
“Home to mother”
When a small group of children are unjustly separated from their families they attempt a nine week, 1,500 mile walk through the Australian outback to return home.
This film raises a lot of infuriating issues such as blatant racism, cultural destruction and Kenneth Branagh giving the world’s worst power point presentation on why his character is so woefully wrong..
”If only they would understand what we are trying to do for them”
white people fucking suck
gingerly history accounting, strong score by Peter Gabriel, fine visuals by Christopher Doyle but at the end too conventional and off the tracks with his characters to carry along.
