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In Reply to: "Rabbit-Proof Fence: A 'true story'?" posted by clarkjohnsen on March 28, 2003 at 13:40:40:
Australia has an appalling track record of human rights abuses for Aboriginal people, and an equally appalling attitude towards the treatment (and incarceration) of immigrants seeking political asylum, as recent prison riots attest. I admire the bravery of any filmmaker who would take this on as a subject.
It's about time; maybe there will be some positive change in the "provincial colonial" Oz administrations attitudes if enough veils are lifted to the truth
True democracy gives individuals the right to be left alone; not to have their fates dictated by Edwardian thinkers in Canberra
Eric
Tokyo*
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Indeed. However, the article lifts the veil on the sad truth that the filmmaker misrepresented the actual situation in an unconscionable number of ways; unconscionable, that is, if the film is meant to be taken as quasi-documentary, which clearly it is.This shocking development also calls into question the very concept of an "appalling track record of human rights abuses for Aboriginal people". Could that be a lie as big as the movie's?
Very disturbing.
clark
Even before "Birth of a Nation" and "Battleship Potempkin" filmmakers have given "their" version of events. Dickens wrote about the plight of the urban poor in serialised form; pure fiction, but so popular that he often modified the ending of novels based on conversations he overheard in pubs of speculation of the fates of his various characters; his writing influenced the creation of the social security and welfare system in the UK (for better or worse).
While I have not seen the film in question, I doubt it oversteps the mark any more or less than a hundred before it.
If it draws attention to genuine issues, all power to it.
I was recently discussing with a Scots friend how films like Braveheart and the "we can't even colonised by a decent culture" monologue in Trainspotting influenced Scotlands move to independence
It makes you wonder about the power of the film medium and if it is indeed ever used responsibly or apolitically; I would suggest almost never....
Eric
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Eric
...nor, I might add, read the article, the degree of agit-prop it represents remains speculative to you, even vis-a-vis, say, the execrable Michael Moore.clark
Pseudo documentaries can suck. "Natural Born Killers" certainly did.
Now you've got my interest up I will definitely check out "Rabbit proof Fence" when it goes on release here, it sounds like its good for a cringe or two (!)
Eric
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