Rabbit-Proof Fence (film) Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of "Rabbit-Proof Fence".

Rabbit-Proof Fence (film) Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of "Rabbit-Proof Fence".
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"Rabbit-Proof Fence"

Summary: An overview of the ways in which the film "Rabbit-Proof Fence" conveys the importance of home, family, and country to indigenous peoples.
The film "Rabbit-Proof Fence" conveys the importance of home and country to indigenous peoples. The director Phillip Noyce refers to home in different ways. He has symbolised home by repeatedly showing images of the Spirit Bird and the Rabbit Proof Fence, since it is a connection to their home. The movie shows Molly's determination to get home and back to her family by escaping from Moore River and finding her way back home to her country, Jigalong.

At the beginning of the film, it is shown how Molly's family hunt for food and use their bush skills in their culture, to survive in their home land, while speaking their own language, doing what they do in their community. Their community have their own civilisation and get taught their own lessons of their past generation of stories. Molly's mother tells her about these stories, in which they call "Dream...

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