The 2002 film directed by Phillip Noyce titled, Rabbit Proof Fence, is inspired by true events that cover three Aboriginal girls on their exhausting journey back home. We are first introduced to the main characters Molly Craig, Gracie, and Daisy as they are working with their family in their tribe. The next day, a white policeman comes and forces the girls to go with him. They are put into a training camp with other Aboriginal children, mostly separated by gender, to train them to become productive members, such as servants, in their white society. They form a plan to escape and runaway from the harsh training camp with aid from the rabbit proof fence that stretches 1,500 miles across Australia back to their community.
Throughout their long and excruciating journey back home the girls have to stay ahead of the best tracker in Australia. They are able to get a head start before him because the rain helps to clear out their footprints making it harder for the tracker to read their steps in the mud. They also encounter many people that help them. A lady gave them bread and a rain jacket and another gave them a home cooked meal. However, not all of their interactions were so friendly. One man tried to trick the girls by telling them their is a train that would take them straight to their community but when the girls went there he had actually called the police on them. One of the girls get caught and taken away. Eventually, the two sisters make it back to the community following the rabbit proof fence and are reunited with their family.
I found this film interesting to watch because it was based on a true story, and the girls were alive long enough to tell it. It covered how the Australian government was trying to train Aboriginal children into domestic workers so that they could be integrated back into white society. The government was trying to get rid of Aboriginal people as they were not considered "white." Aside from the great story line, I liked how some of the videography was shot from the point of view of the children. The camera would be at a lower angle and unsteady to indicate what the sisters were seeing, and it truly was a way to put the audience into their shoes.
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