The Rabbit Proof Fence has been published both as a book and as a film. Being a reader or a viewer entirely changes the point of view on the story. A reader may get a descriptive insight in the situations and emotions of the characters. Then the reader is able to re-create these situations and emotions visually using the imagination and have freedom doing so. As a viewer, that creativity is somewhat restricted. When reading the book the reader does not imagine the characters’ physical appearance, the locations or the overall situations in the same way as the viewer. These elements are already given to the viewer. Throughout this essay it will be explored how the music and the filming creates a great visual emotional impact on the audience and in contrast when reading the book, the detailed mental descriptions are the main focus. Emotions are felt entirely differently from reading the book to watching the movie. Therefore, the statement is valid that the film impacts viewers on a more emotional level while the book gives a more historical background to what the story in the book ‘Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence’ is actually about.
There is a major distinction between the beginning of the book and the beginning of the movie. The beginning of the book gives the reader a detailed description of the historical background about the ‘Stolen Generations’ while the movie goes straight into one example of the ‘Stolen Generations’. The contrast of a detailed understanding of the history of the Stolen Generations compared to one example of it may not connect with the emotions of the story as well as watching the film. The film doesn’t focus on the overall history. Instead it starts with the girls with their family in their normal lifestyle. After the mayhem occurs where the children are separated from their family, the viewer follows the journey with the girls back to the settlement. It is a long journey that takes the viewer through a visual experience but in the book, the scenery was described in more verbal detail. In the journey home the film made the surroundings look just like desert and not much else but in the book’s description there seems more bush-land and other trees and grasses around them.
Music in a film plays a crucial role. In the Rabbit Proof Fence, most of the music consists of melancholic melodies. Often, a heavy and deep drumbeat is heard in the background adding to the sense of doom. This is not present in the book. When the girls are taken away from their families, a scene that differs greatly from the book to the film and this affects the
journey at some point of their life weather your young or old .Journeys can be physical, inner or imaginative and can lead to moral growth and self-discovery .The concept of journey can be explored through the text “The rabbit proof fence” and “the road not taken. In the rabbit, proof fence the director Phillip Noyce applies techniques such as camera angles, motif and symbols to tell the story of the injustice policy enforced by the government towards aboriginal people during the 1930. The journey of Molly…
Rabbit Proof fence Review About: The Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian drama film that is based on the book “Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.”It is based on a true story about Doris Pilkington’s mother, as well as two other mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Settlement in Western Australia, to return to their families. The film follows the three girls as they walk for nine weeks along 2,400 km of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their home of Jigalong…
Representations of Along the Rabbit-Proof Fence; Truth, reality and a tale of the Colonial Pied Piper. Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running.1 While the law may not concern itself with trifles, it does however, concern itself greatly with the past. The legal system operates on the principle of stare decisis and in so doing, attempts…
Rabbit Proof Fence Discuss the symbolism and motifs in the ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’. What do they represent and how do they contribute to the story? The film ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ conveys the importance of family, belonging and country to the Aboriginal people and provides the audience with an insight of the division between the Europeans and the Aboriginal people. The Director, Philip Noyce displays these themes by the use of symbolism and motifs. Symbolism is the use of one object to represent…
of a proper education. Molly, Daisy and Gracie, after being severely mistreated in the institute, eventually decide to escape the next day. They walk kilometre after kilometre through forests and pastoral lands to reach one of the rabbit proof fences. They use this fence as a way to guide themselves back home. However, they are being tracked by…
distances which itself is laden with other adversities that extend its difficulty. In Rabbit Proof Fence, the girls are forced to journey through harsh terrains with insufficient supplies and a professional tracker hot on their heels. Likewise, Mountain Sound features a long distance to the desired refuge further laden with the sense of guilt from the traveller’s previous actions. Just as Rabbit Proof Fence features a narration in the Aboriginal language that projects a sense of belonging and…
English Essay – Rabbit Proof Fence ‘Physical journeys extend and challenge the traveller.’ In what ways have the travellers in “Rabbit Proof Fence” been challenged by the nature of their journey? The film the Rabbit Proof Fence, by Philip Noice, is the story of three indigenous Australian girls Molly, Gracie and Daisy, who were forcibly taken from their home in Jigalong in 1931. Under the mandate of the Aborigines Protection Act, the young girls were sent to the Moore river settlement, where…
since we escaped from the mission, we have been walking for days now on our way back home to our families. I have heard the tracker from Moore River is on to us. Thanks to a very kind lady she gave us food, jackets and points us towards the rabbit proof fence that we are now following to jigalong. The girls and I have been finding the walk tiring; I have been giving piggy back rides every now and then. Today we came across a little house with an aborigine girl hanging washing on a line. I decided…
from the restored Hong Hai 1970s. National Museum of Australia. Binoculars about 1975. National Museum of Australia. Dictation test passage 1936. Produced by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. National Archives of Australia. Wangkangurru rabbit-fur headdress 1920s. From Lake Eyre region, north-east South Australia. Donated by George Horne. National Museum of Australia. Snake story from Karrinyarra 1978. By Old Mick Tjakamarra. From Papunya, Central Australia. Donated by R G Kimber. National…
and attitudes; however, they are in stark contrast to many stories of Indigenous Australians (After the apology, 2009). One of the most striking examples of such stories is Molly Kelly’s life story who became the heroine of the well-known film Rabbit-Proof Fence and died at the age of 87 unable to reunite with her daughter that had been taken from her 60 years earlier (Stephens, 2004). The journey of 1,600 kilometers…