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Drama, History 90 min
Rotten Tomatoes91%Metacritic71IMDb
All men choose the path they walk.
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
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Summary: 7/10: patient, unconventional filmmaking that earns its deliberate pace and rewards those willing to meet it on its own terms. This is a film of historical memory, examining the brutal treatment of Australian Aboriginals by invading British colonizers. Director Rolf de Heer sets his story in 1922, when an Aboriginal tracker leads three white policemen in pursuit of another Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. The film's significance extends beyond its historical setting; some one million First Peoples of Australia are still fighting for recognition and status today, making this portrait of colonial violence and complicity uncomfortably relevant. This is not a movie for the impatient. It's long, very slow, accompanied throughout by slow ballads sung by Archie Roach that function as both commentary and lament. The film is obviously low budget; de Heer uses painted stills instead of special effects when violence occurs, a deliberate artistic choice that disrupts the usual place violent scenes occupy in cinema. There's no payoff for viewers seeking the thrill of gore; instead, each killing becomes instant history, memorialized rather than sensationalized. Yet som
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