Identity and Power in Rabbit Proof Fence Humans naturally seek community and belonging. A sense of community powerfully influences self identity. Community is often found in the nation; that is‚ in "a collection of people who have come to believe that they have been shaped by a common past and are destined to share a common future‚ [ and possess] a sense of otherness from groups around them" (Enloe). It is this "otherness" that both strengthens and endangers community bonds‚ and the pursuit of
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Rabbit Proof Fence Essay One of the themes shown in ‘ Rabbit Proof Fence’ is imprisonment. This theme is shown through camera shots and setting. Some example of this are included in the scenes where they are locked in cage on the train‚ when Riggs captures them and fights for them from their mother‚ and the orderly prison-like manner they are made to live in at the Moore River Settlement. We are also figuratively shown the idea of imprisonment with the Rabbit Proof Fence symbolizing the theme
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Rabbit Proof Fence An Australian film Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Philip Noyce is reliable to an historian studying the Protection policies of the Australian Government during the 1930’s in that it tells a true story about three Aboriginal children who were taken away from their families because they were half-castes. However‚ it is not reliable in that it only tells us about the effect of Protection policy in Western Australia‚ not the whole country. This film outlines the experiences
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recaptured and sent back to camp. The other girls keep walking along the rabbit-proof fence until it runs out‚ but they don’t lose hope‚ they keep walking until it continues and they can feel their home. They are then reunited with their mother and grandmother after 9 weeks of walking to get home. This is when the epilogue begins to give us details after. Symbolism: RABBIT-PROOF FENCE – the fence is referring to the actual fence but is very symbolic because it is built by whites and it gives the feeling
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Rabbit Proof Fence A contemporary Australian feature film released in 2002 and direct by Phillip Noyce. Child characters: Molly (14)‚ Daisy (8) and Gracie (10) walk 1600km home to their desert home in Jigalong from the mission called the Moore River Native Settlement north of Perth * Noyce uses oral and written historical methods to tell the story * He uses real and fictional characters to present an emotive and supportive narrative of the girl’s journey‚ showing the white authorities
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The term journey implies travel. It is a progression‚ either physical‚ mental or spiritual. In the classic Australian film‚ Rabbit Proof Fence‚ released in 2000‚ Phillip Noyce recreates the authentic story of three young Aboriginal girls‚ Molly‚ Daisy and Gracie‚ and their miraculous journey back home‚ after being forcibly removed from their families and home at Jigalong. Noyce suggests two distinct journeys through his film including the physical journey of the three girls finding their way home
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Rabbit-Proof Fence is a film directed by Phillip Noyce. It is about three mixed-race Aboriginal girls who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement to return to their mothers. The girls walk for nine weeks and 1200 miles of the rabbit-proof fence in Australia to return to Jigalong‚ their hometown while being tracked down by a hunter and several others under Mr Neville’s orders. The film uses several effective production techniques such as a variety of camera shots to fulfill different purposes
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Q1. ’Rabbit Proof Fence’ highlights how experiences change our point of view. Discuss. Can you imagine being an Aborigine? Living in the outback? Hunting for food? What would your point of view be if you were brought up that way? Or maybe you were a white person. What would your point of view be then? What would you think of the Aborigines and their way of living and the way they were brought up compared to you? All the different experiences people have such as how we are brought up‚ our beliefs
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traditions onto the indigenous peoples. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Christian missionaries came to Nigeria- specifically where the Igbo tribe was located‚ and imposed their religion and culture upon them. Similarly‚ in the film Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Philip Noyce‚ the colonial government of Australia put in
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The film‚ Rabbit Proof Fence‚ produced in 2002 and directed by Phillip Noyce‚ follows the journey of three Aboriginal girls‚ Molly‚ Daisy and Gracie‚ who in 1931 were forcibly removed from their home in Jigalong‚ Western Australia‚ then sent to the Moore River settlement. The young girls escaped and fled across the harsh‚ desert landscape using the rabbit-proof fence as their only guide‚ to return home. The film is based on a lamentable period in our history. It’s set in a context where European
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