Phillip Noyce - Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

Phillip Noyce - Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/ Language Aboriginal | English dual audio Subtitles English & Italian sub/idx English subs provided for the Australian and Aboriginal sections. :-P Darlene Johnson - Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319793/ [QUOTE]If you were kidnapped by the government, would you walk the 1500 miles back home? [/QUOTE] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QNTJAV8RL.jpg [QUOTE]This is a very powerful film from the wonderful Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American) and its based on the shameful history in Australia where aborigine children were taken by force from their families and tribes to camps and taught to be servants. In the film 3 sisters escape and venture to walk 1,500 miles back to their tribe. The title refers to a fenceline that stretches for thousands of miles and the girls follow it. The wonderful aborigine actor David Gulpilil (Walkabout) plays a scout that is tracking the girls and Kenneth Branaugh plays an officer that is in charge of the whole operation. I guess the main flaw in the film would be the middle where most of the walking takes place and the film really slows down but its not a major complaint. The 1,500 mile trek is expertly paced and the film is by no means dull. Rather, its fascinating! The real footage that we see at the end of the film is so powerful that the whole essence of what you have just watched becomes even more devastating. This is more than just an important film, its a documentation of an ugly and shameful part of Australian history. A must see! [/QUOTE] http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/Clipboard01-46.png [QUOTE] Western Australia 1931: For 100 years the Aboriginal Peoples have resisted the invasion of their lands by white settlers. Now, a special law, the Aborigines Act, controls their lives in every detail. Mr. A. O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, is the legal guardian of every Aborigine in the State of Western Australia. He has the power "to remove any half-caste child" from their family, from anywhere within the state.[/QUOTE] http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/Clipboard02-45.png [QUOTE]If only they would understand what we are trying to do for them [/QUOTE] http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/Clipboard03-46.png [QUOTE]This is your new home. We don't use that jabber here. You speak English. [/QUOTE] http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/Clipboard04-45.png [QUOTE]BY ROGER EBERT / December 25, 2002 The most astonishing words in "Rabbit-Proof Fence" come right at the end, printed on the screen as a historical footnote. The policies depicted in the movie were enforced by the Australian government, we are told, until 1970. Aboriginal children of mixed race were taken by force from their mothers and raised in training schools that would prepare them for lives as factory workers or domestic servants. More than a century after slavery was abolished in the Western world, a Western democracy was still practicing racism of the most cruel description. The children's fathers were long gone--white construction workers or government employees who enjoyed sex with local aboriginal women and then moved on. But why could the mixed-race children not stay where they were? The offered explanations are equally vile. One is that a half-white child must be rescued from a black society. Another was that too many "white genes" would by their presumed superiority increase the power and ability of the aborigines to cause trouble by insisting on their rights. A third is that, by requiring the lighter-skinned children to marry each other, blackness could eventually be bred out of them. Of course it went without saying that the "schools" they were held in prepared them only for menial labor. [URL=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021225/REVIEWS/212250302/1023]more...[/URL][/QUOTE] http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/Clipboard05-44.png http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/Clipboard06-38.png this is dual audio, includes the commentary track (Italian subs for that) [QUOTE]The audio commentary from Noyce is superbly done. In addition to giving the viewer background as to how and why he did the movie, he also offers up some interesting tidbits about the difference between working on mainstream films ("Clear & Present Danger," "Sliver," etc.) and smaller films like "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and "The Quiet American."[/QUOTE] English subs provided for the Australian and Aboriginal sections. :-P File Size (in bytes):...........................1,178,265,600 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................1:29:52 Frame Count:....................................134775 Frame Width (pixels):...........................672 Frame Height (pixels):..........................288 Aspect Ratio:...................................2.333 Frames Per Second:..............................25.000 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1346 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP..................N-VOP...... Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.278" --- Audio Information (Track 1)--- Audio Codec:....................................0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................192 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............CBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 [QUOTE]"Following the Rabbit Proof fence" really interested me. The girls all had such natural talent and to see it behind the set, it came from another point of view. I couldn't believe how alike Everlyn was to Molly, no wonder she fit perfectly. It's a bit disapointing that they didn't have much on the stolen generation, or the real girls' lives but it was all the same very well done. It was very moving and heartbreaking how after the scene they were still crying. It just shows how much the past is still painful but how strong these people are. [/QUOTE] http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/fr1.png http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/fr2.png http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/fr3.png http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/fr4.png [QUOTE]It is an incredible tale of survival, courage and hope. Three Aboriginal girls were stolen from their families by the Australian government near a rabbit fence on the edge of the Gibson desert in the 1930s. They were then taken to a mission 2400km to the south. Desperate and homesick, the three little girls escaped and embarked on the long walk home, along the rabbit fence. Not surprisingly, this real-life story about Molly Craig, her sister Daisy and their cousin, Gracie, attracted a famous Australian director, who wanted to translate it to the screen. Phil Noyce, of Newsfront, Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games fame, tells James Thomas: "This film represents to me the greatest challenge I've ever undertaken." A scene from Rabbit-Proof FenceNoyce dropped out of a $220 million Hollywood movie project to come back to Australia to raise money for Rabbit-Proof Fence. He began a nationwide search for three young girls to play roles that would challenge the most experienced actors. He was looking for raw talent; the irony of taking three girls from the bush to the celluloid world was not lost on the director: "I suppose, in one way, you could say, in a different time and context, I'm AO Neville (Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia), promising these young Aboriginal children a better life, asking them to do things against their instincts perhaps, because it's for their own good. But we do live in a slightly different world. These children are not being taken away from their culture, their families. Their families came with them to make the movie, and their families are going with them to promote the movie, so it is a slightly different context."[URL=http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_980.asp]more...[/URL][/QUOTE] File Size (in bytes):...........................590,716,928 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................42:55.000 Frame Count:....................................64375 Frame Width (pixels):...........................608 Frame Height (pixels):..........................448 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.357 Frames Per Second:..............................25.000 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1633 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.240" --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec:....................................0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................192 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............CBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 ------my rips, of course----- *********************************** FREAKYFLICKS ************************************ Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. 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