Monday, November 22, 2010

Samson and Delilah

Australia

Extremely grim drama set in the Northern Territory. Two young aboriginal teens, a boy and a girl, live in a squalid outback village. He is addicted to sniffing gasoline which has addled his brain. She is inexplicably attacked by the village women after her grandmother dies. So they hit the road by stealing the village truck. They come to a modern city, live under a bridge, steal food until she gets gang-raped and then hit by a car. Then a kindly abo man takes them to a remote squalid cabin where they apparently live happily ever after.

This may have been intended to cast a light on the plight on Australia's natives but they were presented in such an unfavorable way here it may have backfired. They were portrayed as filthy, heartless, ignorant...people with no sense of pride or dignity. Perhaps victims but one wonders what their lives were like before the white invasion?

I suspect a similar film could be made about native Americans but would anyone want to watch it?

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