Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. Although, it is only loosely based on a true story concerning Molly's mother. The fact that it is only loosely based on the true story to build drama does not matter though. The important thing is to get the story out of some of the inhumane practices Australia's government committed between 1931 & 1970 against the aborigine people including separating their children from them making them the "Stolen Generation".Peoples inhumanity to people never ceases to amaze me. Laws set by governments that are unjust should not be followed and those that carry them out like A. O. Neville should be tried for crimes against humanity, just as if they were war crimes in my opinion. It a crime against humanity the U.S. committed such crimes against Native Americans too and today against children of immigrants as Israel does against Palestinians children today as well. When will people realize that there is only one race, the human race and that different cultures should not be feared.Anyway, here are the pros and cons of this film as I see it:Pros:1. A film every teenager should see, as it is socially and culturally important.2. Overall and excellent and important story to be told.3. The three girls do an excellent job acting.Cons:1. I think the film might have had even more of an impact if screenwriter Christine Olsen stuck to the book more.

Rabbit Proof Fence was part of my home-schooling class and ​I ​found it very slowpaced, but it showed an important part of Australian history. I really hadn't seen how Aboriginals had lived. . .and no way could I have imagined w​hat​ the 1930sw​ere​ like. I had heard about the fact that Australia had a very long fence calledthe Rabbit Proof Fence and it has new meaning now that I understand theserunaway girls used it as their ​guide ​to fi​nd the​​ir way homeI would recommend it to anyone more interested in history and culture, than aninterest in Hollywood type of entertainment movies. It was to​ hard​ believe the three girlswere really actors. . .they were so believable. I liked that at the end of the movie,we got to see them as they are today. . and to learn a little bit of their adult life.

What is wrong with 'the great white'?? We are the most dangerous of species. We invade, we infest and we just can't leave anything alone. Blanket the world in ignorance and greed. Spread fear and a Christian God's wrath. Spreading war and disease. We have endangered the survival of the planet for our own comfort. The stone age is the only sustainable society in the long run, and others have been doing it better for longer.

Rabbit proof fence is a stirring, true story of three little girls who were part of Australia's "lost generation" when aboriginal children were stolen from their families and sent to training camps to learn to be farm workers and domestics, under the government's guise of helping them, by forcing themaway from their native lives. Three sisters decided to run away, and set out on foot on a harrowing 1200 mile journey back home. They followed the Rabbit-Proof Fence to find their way.The story was written by the daughter of one of the girls about her mother's journey. It is frightening, poignant and joyful all at the same time.As improbable as it seems, it was true. A testament to courage and love. I myself have watched this film three or four times over the years. I give itfive stars for every time I have seen it.

Rabbit Proof Fence is a film set in the 1930’s, loosely based on a true story of three mixed-race Aboriginal girls and their plight to return to their home and mother.In the beginning of the film, three girls; Molly, Daisy, and Gracie live with their mother in an Aboriginal settlement bordered by a thousands-of-mile long rabbit proof fence. While living a peaceful life, they are kidnapped by the Australian government, horrifically torn away from their mother and grandmother, and thrown into a car to be taken far away to a government camp. In a eugenics plot by the Australian government, they were to be gentrified and made to fit in with what the white cultural norm was at the time. They were required to follow strict rules and to live by the Christian way of life. Eventually, the girls ran away from the camp and found their way back to the rabbit-proof fence. Once they rediscovered the fence, they started following it back to their home. They were chased by multiple law enforcement agents, making many close escapes. Eventually, they are misled by a stranger, leading to one of the girls being captured. The remaining two girls carry on and eventually make it back to their home and waiting mother.This film documents some of the atrocities committed by the Australian government and church missions against the indigenous Australians. Children were torn from their families and lives and made to follow a new religion and customs. Religion, especially western ones tend to force their beliefs on you as an end goal. This is how Christianity was used on the indigenous Australians. It was forced on them in order to gentrify and erase the culture and religion that they had followed for generations. We see this in other cultures as well and examples like the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity and apartheid in Africa. Religion is often used as a tool of assimilation, put to work erasing a people’s native culture and converting them to something white people are used to.All in all, this is a good film that depicts what people will do to others just because they are different. It retells the story of some very tenacious and resourceful girls, and their plight to overcome their situation in the face of horrible odds.

I have only watched the film once to date but I enjoyed it. I will in due course watch it again. It's a powerful indictment of the way in which a society, less than 100 years ago was so insular, it could treat other human beings with great cruelty, and assume it was morally correct to do so. The same mindset has occurred in many places throughout the world, viz USA, South Africa etc. and as a specie we are still learning to empathise with others, and to challenge our own assumptions that we know what is best for everybody.

My daughters and I have watched this wonderful film several times. It is a beautiful but tragic story of adventure and resolve, but also of institutionalised racism dressed up as misguided compassion. In these days of intolerance, where understanding and accepting other races or cultures appears to be almost impossible for large parts of our community it is a timely story.

This true story film is so well worth watching. It came alive even more when my wife and I visited the Rabbit Proof Fence along which three young children had walked over 1000 km to get from a settlement (set up by white settlers into which they'd been forcibly taken) back to their home and families in Western Australia. A-MA-ZING! Kenneth Branagh thought it good enough to be in it.

Brilliant film, touchingly poignant, based on a true situation that was common in Australia at that time. You can't help but get involved in this film - it is part of history and really makes you see that the Aussie White Man has much to answer for.... Highly recommended.

This film will both touch and warm the heart of the viewer without a doubt - all the more so as it is based on a true story.Of the three young girls , the youngest Daisy died as recently as mid June 2018 , aged 95.