Rabbit-Proof Fence:
a “true story�by Keith Windschuttle
Considering Phillip Noyce’s current film.
EXCERPT:
Rabbit-Proof Fence is ostensibly an adventure story of female bravery and ingenuity in which three Aboriginal girls escape from an oppressive institution in Western Australia and make a fifteen-hundred-mile journey back to their home. In reality it is a work every bit as politically committed as Graham Greene’s. If anything, the anti-Australianism of the latter film outdoes the anti-Americanism of The Quiet American.
That, from the current issue of New Criterion not-on-line. But I have the hard copy, should anyone care to scan it in.
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Topic - "Rabbit-Proof Fence: A 'true story'?" - clarkjohnsen 13:40:40 03/28/03 (7)
- Re: "Rabbit-Proof Fence: A 'true story'?" - gware 17:11:16 03/28/03 (6)
- "...if enough veils are lifted to the truth." - clarkjohnsen 08:45:21 03/29/03 (5)
- an argument as older than the medium itself... - gware 21:04:15 03/31/03 (4)
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- "While I have not seen the film in question..." - clarkjohnsen 08:47:02 04/01/03 (1)
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