Rabbit Proof Fence (DVD 2003)

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bought this Dvd after a friend telling me about it. Rabbit Proof Fence is a true story of hope and the will to survive and has won awards and credits. The Austrailan Government used to take Aboriginal children( in the 1930's) away from their mothers and train them to be domestic workers for white people. When 2 sisters and a cousin are stolen away from their mothers and taken to a training camp, Molly Craig( oldest sister) decides to escape the camp and walk back to her mother. The girls walk a dangerous 1500 miles across the outback next to a Rabbit proof fence to find their mum as they lived next to the fence . Their will and determination to get back home is amazing. They have to escape the authorities and try and survive in terrible conditions.

As this film is a true story, it is shocking how people were treated back then and very moving what these 3 young amazing girls went through. They were known as the ' Stolen Generation '. Found the film exciting from start to finish and more so because it really happened.

Dvd extras are quite good too. Docu about the Rabbit Proof Fence and Feature Commentary with Director Philip Noyce. 5.1 Dolby Dig, 89 minutes running time,

A must own. Brilliant.

A real reflection on how the Aboriginies had to deal with the influence of the white people.
Story of 3 young girls attempt to return "home" to their parents after escaping from their internment camp.
Courage and bravery mixed with real determination. A thought provoking look into life "on the other side".

I have seen this movie and even brought as a friends' birthday present because it is a moving story of courage against adversity. I decided I wanted my own copy and so after looking at the price at online retailers I thought I would buy it off ebay.

'Rabbit-Proof Fence' is a lot like 'The Incredible Journey', only with three little girls where the lovable domestic pets should be. It's the true story of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, three young Aborigines who escape from a detention centre to embark on a 1500-mile journey home. Their only hope of finding the way back? A ruddy great rabbit-proof fence, stretching the full distance from one side of Australia to the other. Okay, so it's no Great Wall of China - I mean, it's just a fence. But it IS an impressive fence, and it's also a total bugger if you happen to be a rabbit.

The film is set in the 1930s, the beginning of an abhorrent piece of legislation ruling that all "half-caste" Aborigine children be taken from their homes and detained in custom-made camps so as not to "contaminate" Australian society. Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura Monaghan play Molly, her younger sister Daisy and cousin Gracie, the three intrepid ankle-biters who stick it to the man (in this case represented by Kenneth Branagh as the merciless Government "Protector" of Aborigines) by breaking free and travelling all the way across Oz on foot.

The breath-taking scenery spotted along the way by director Philip Noyce makes it a work of outstanding visual beauty, and at times Christine Olsen's screenplay (based on the book by Molly's real-life daughter Doris Pilkington) genuinely tugs on the heart-strings. There's not a lot of dialogue involved, but the words that are there work well and could have some of the softies among you reaching for the hankies.

If I have one major criticism of the film, it's that it's perhaps a little short, and certainly under-developed. The hardships they encounter while attempting to make it through the harsher areas of desert are only briefly touched upon, and more could have been made of the Aboriginal "Tracker" character who reluctantly (we assume) pursues our three heroines across the Outback.

That aside, this is an eye-opener of a film, covering ground rarely dealt with on the screen. It could easily get away with being longer, more detailed in its treatment of the historical/political side of things, and more graphic in its depiction of the detention centre. Perhaps it's just one of those cases where less was decided to be more.

I had read the book and thought I would like to see it on dvd. To think what these three young girls had to go through to get back to their mothers is unbelievable. It is also hard to believe that they were taken away from their mothers a second time. So much for white people runniny the country.

As a family we have an interest in Australia, having relatives out there. It was enlightening to see what went on back in the 30's. An enjoyable film, helps us get to know character of the native people. Good that it is a true life experience and you see the real characters at the end!

This was a prompt service unfortunately I cannot get the DVD to play on any equipment that I own at home or at work. So this is a great shame because I needed this DVD for my work.

i visited oz and my brother suggested i watch it, my father was moaning about the amount of japs there, with tears in his eyes about the monstrosities thhay did, so i have watched this and will be getting him to watch it to show that we were just as bad if not worse than hitler, to take someones country to try and outbreed the black in them was totally disgusting and alien.

Good film which is based on indigenous Australian children stolen from their families to grow into and up with white Australians. The story is of 3 girls who are captured and who escape back home (1500 miles on foot) using the fence as guidance. The film could give more on the trail home and how they were caught; it really should be 120mins rather than the 90mins it is, but still worth the watch