- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2002
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Adventure
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- 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.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Narcissism | Personal change | Self-expression | Sexism | Sexual Repression | Snobbery | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Black-Proof Fence
The past is used here to allegedly prove the present better. Yet, few White directors are willing to make films about present day racism - as if the problem has simply gone away. Because this movie needs to appeal to a White audience, it lacks the courage to analyse its own racism: The White race guilt is palpable.
Whites here fear dying out through miscegenation, yet are keen on inter racial sex! One of many paradoxes the film shies from. The sheer horror at the idea of “Black Blood” racially tainting Whites, motivates them to try and destroy Black family, culture and identity.
Kenneth BRANAGH is excellent: He actually seems to believe the racism he spouts; insidious because it is supposedly beneficial to its intended victims. The three children are completely believable – without their sterling work there would be no film.
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