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Is the movie Australia representative of Australia (the country) or is it a Hollywood version of reality? Director Baz Luhrmann’s movie ‘Australia’ is set in Northern Australia in the 1930s – 1940s and explores many themes, two of which – climate and Indigenous Australians – will be discussed in the following report. In some aspects of the movie, Luhrmann presents a realistic portrayal of Australia at this time. However, foreigners might have an unrealistic perception of the entirety of Australia, as the film mainly shows the more remote parts of our richly diverse country. The film explores much, but not all, of the Indigenous Australian experience and, in terms of climate, it presents the climate of the Top End Region of Australia quite accurately, but doesn’t fully convey the changes in climate throughout the whole of the country. Indigenous Australians The position of Indigenous Australians is one of the main themes represented in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. Luhrmann presents his audience with a wide range of aspects of Indigenous culture. Some of the aspects that he includes are the Dreaming and the extensive discrimination towards the Indigenous community at the time that the movie is set, including the experience of the Stolen Generation. Although these aspects are very important in the Australian Indigenous culture, there are some other features that Luhrmann fails to portray. Two of the most significant of these are the experiences of the urban Indigenous community at the time at the film is set, and the differences between how Indigenous Australians are portrayed in the film and how they live today. The Stolen Generation The Stolen Generation were the many children from all across Australia who had an Indigenous Aboriginal background, and because of this, were taken away from their families by the Australian authorities at the time. This occurred between the early 1900s (1909 approximately) all the way through to the 1970s. The Australian government at the time believed that these children wouldn’t be safe living with their f amilies and needed to learn and be exposed to ‘Anglo - Saxon values’. Source 1 (right) is a photo of a group of these young children who have been taken away. Luhrmann shows this in the film when Nullah is captured by the White Australian authorities and is taken to Mission Island with the other Aboriginal or mixed-race children. The Dreaming The Dreaming is the story of the ‘never - ending’ creation of all things in the Indigenous Australian culture. This establishes relationships between the people and the land and the past and the present. It is the network of faith, knowledge and practices that derives from Indigenous stories of creation, also known as dreamtime stories. Dreamtime stories pass on important cultural knowledge, values and belief systems through song, dance, art and storytelling. An example of a dreamtime story referred to in the fi lm is ‘The Rainbow Serpent’. In Australia , this theme of the Dreaming is one that is explored through the relationship between the character of Nullah and his grandfather King George (Source 2). It portrays the connection between Aboriginal generations and shows the way that their culture is shared, taught and learnt. In the film, we see King George teach Nullah many of the important aspects and rituals in the Australian Aboriginal culture. For example, Nullah is taught significant spiritual songs which he uses when guiding the cattle across ‘Never Never’ land and also learns many important survival skills such as hunting, fishing and making and collecting food from the natural resources in the land. Source 1: A group of very young Aboriginal children who have been removed from their families. Source 2: Nullah with his grandfather King George
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