Rabbit-Proof Fence
94 min /2002/Australia
Language: Aboriginal (Martu Wangka) | English
Director:
Phillip Noyce
Writers:
Doris Pilkington (book),
Christine Olsen (screenplay)
Stars:
Everlyn Sampi, Tianna
Sansbury and Kenneth Branagh |
Storyline
Western Australia,
1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their
Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to
indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy,
and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their
Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north,
following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker
and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's
"chief protector of Aborigines," A.O. Neville, blinded by
Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom. Can
the girls survive?
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