Wonderful character development!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's 1931. The government in the Chief Protector of Aborigines A.O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh) is the legal guardian of every Aborigine in Western Australia. Government agents would remove half-caste children from their parents. Sisters Daisy and Molly Craig along with their cousin Gracie are taken from their tribe, the Jigalong mob. Molly's father is a white man who was working on the rabbit-proof fence. She leads the trio in an escape. They follow the fence back home tracked closely by native Moodoo. Neville directs a massive manhunt to find the three little girls.It's a compelling historical drama. The little girls are great especially Everlyn Sampi. It also has the great David Gulpilil. Seeing the real Molly Craig and Daisy Craig Kadibill in present day is what truly kills me. It's an amazing true story.

Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce in 2002 and based on the true story of the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. The film brings attention to the Stolen Generations, the children who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions. The issue is still very controversial in Australia, despite the fact that on the 13th of February 2008 Kevin Rudd presented the apology to Indigenous Australians. The film follows the journey of three Aboriginal girls who were taken from their home and as they run away from the authorities, they follow the Australian rabbit proof fence on foot for 1500 miles. The film if very powerful, it shows the Australian wilderness, the rough landscape of the desert, and the way in which the three girls struggle to survive and get home. Not only is it well made, but also tells a very important story, which still affects the lives of thousands of people in Australia. It is highly recommended for people of all ages and all nationalities as the story is universal speaking of one type of people believing to be superior to others and trying to impose their rules and culture on to those they find inferior, believing they they will do them a favour and therefore they should be grateful rather than try to fight it. I believe that this part of history should be brought into light and discussed, and not hidden and forgotten. I, myself, found it educational as well as moving and touching, because it somehow reminded me of Natzi Germany and the fact that history may repeat itself if we are not careful.

Rabbit-proof Fence (2002) is a story of three young girls who were from their homes was for "ethnic cleansing" purposes by the protagonists. Called "half-caste" children, they were considered a type of third race, and science was unable to do DNA and blood tests so they backed their reasoning by showing photographs of different generations of 'breeding out' the native aboriginal blood. After escaping from Moore River, a dormitory resembling a compound, they are tracked by a professional tracker and outsmart him, an ironic twist in the fact that they were taken from home to isolate the dark-skinned "less intelligent" girls from the rest of society. Two girls make the long journey, and even after returning home, they escape with their mother into the desert where the antagonist Molly is eventually caught and returned to the camp. When I first started watching this film, I thought perhaps the girls were being stolen for slavery purposes. The constables who led the search for the girls justified their morals by saying they were doing this for the children's own good, and to help society by reabsorbing the aboriginals back into "white" culture (where the lightest skinned children were spared from the grim dormitory lifestyle for real schools because they were supposedly more likely to succeed). In the 1930's Australia was still suffering major debts and depression after WWI. In "Culture And Customs of Australia", author Laurie Clancy says:"Farmers were forced off their land, city-dwellers were evicted from their homes and often took to the road in search of subsistence. Shanty towns grew up, with police constantly moving vagrants along." Women with children were considered a financial debt, and children "an unnecessary burden." (p. 29)This explains why there was nobody willing to stand up for these children, although they do meet sympathetic strangers along the way. Another thing I learned from researching the history of Australia is that the children who became survivors still struggle with cultural identity and family issues. They are known as the "Stolen Generation". This film was comparable to "12 Years A Slave" where actor Solomon Northup is drugged and sold into the black market as a slave, regardless of the fact that he has his papers declaring him a free man. The first time we see his character cry is for someone else; in Rabbit-proof Fence the eldest girl Molly (still a baby herself at 12 years old) cries only after the first hour of the movie when her sister is taken. Solomon sees other captive slaves hung and beaten for escape yet he waits for his moment; Molly does the same, convincing her sisters to join her when the time is right. Solomon had strip naked and share a washtub with others as guards looked on, stealing their modesty. Molly is washed by the nuns in an outside shower and has to defecate into a bucket in the corner of the over-crowded dormitory. Both characters have their rights stripped away from them, and at this point death is a better alternative to their certain miserable future. Though these movies are both based on history of a hundred years ago, the themes of racism and dominating of others persists in our country and others around the world today. Mixed- race couples in America get ostracized for marriage and for having children, although modern science clearly shows we are ALL mixed race of some sort or another and that there IS no "full- blood" in America today. Some gays and lesbians have even adopted the word "queer" to self- define, a way of stripping the derogatory power of that word from society. Many issues regarding aborigines still persists throughout Australia today, with two schools of thought regarding whether they should be isolated or "reabsorbed" back into society and given the same rights and opportunities as fair skinned settlers. has Clancy's book speaks of this disparity, and of today's gender issues in the country. Did you know that "Waltzing Matilda", the unofficial song of Australia, has nothing to do with a woman dancing, but refers to the swag of cloth or "matilda" worn by bushmen? I also learned that it wasn't until 1962 that aboriginals gained the right to vote! This is a great film, and the true story behind it is worth looking into.

Characters:Molly: She is the oldest girl of three and Daisy's sister. She is 14- years old.Gracie: She is Molly and Daisy's cousin. She is the middle one. She is 10-years old.Daisy: She is the youngest one. She is 8-years old.The film is a 2002 Australian drama film. It is directed by Philip Noyce. Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" written by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is based on a true story. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1500 miles (2400 km) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being pursued by a white authority figure and an Aboriginal tracker. The soundtrack to the film is called "Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence", is made by a man named Peter Gabriel.This is in Western Australia during the 1930s. The film begins in the remote town of Jigalong where 14-year old Molly, and 8-year old Daisy, lives with their mother, grandmother and their 10-year old cousin Gracie. Thousands of miles away, the "protector" of the Aborigines, A.O. Neville, signs an order to take the girls to his re-education camp. Neville calls people like these girls "half-castes", they have one white and one aboriginal parent. Neville says that the aboriginal peoples of Australia are a danger to themselves, and that the "half-castes" must be bred out of existence. The girls are taken from Jigalong to the camp at Moore River. Half-castes that are of a certain age live at the camps and are taught to become servants for the whites living in Australia. The three girls, Molly, Gracie and Daisy decide to escape from the camp and walk home to Jigalong. The Aboriginal tracker, Moodoo, is called in to find the girls and bring them back to the camp. They evade Moodoo several times, receiving aid from strangers in the harsh Australian country they travel. After a long walk they find the rabbit-proof fence and knows that they can follow it north to Jigalong. Neville figures out their strategy and sends Moodoo and a local constable, Riggs, after them.I think this was a great film with facts about differences between people and what people do to other people. Here the white people want to eradicate the aborigines, and "help" the half-castes. I will recommend this film, because it is very interesting. But I will not recommend it for a cozy evening.