I believe that the director Baz Luhrmann made the movie in a way to show how different the English and the aboriginal culture were and how the aboriginal people were treated. My immediate impression on the topic is that it is about love and accepting one another. The movie also portrays how the stolen generations were living in fear of being taken away from their families.
The movie takes place in the 1940s of Australia, when Lady Ashley arrives to Darwin to see her husband who owns a cattle station only to find him dead. She later meets a man called Drover and the two take back the cattle station from the former owner. Lady Ashley builds a bond with an aboriginal boy named Nullah and takes care of him, as he was her son. The war approaches, Drover, and Lady Ashley get in a fight and Nullah is captured by the police and is shipped off to an Island, but the family eventually reunites after the war.
A scene that really got to me was when Nullah and his mother hid in the water tank in fear of the police. I could see the fear in their eyes, and to think that this was their day-to-day life makes me so furious. It really upsets me to see that the aboriginal people were humiliated, beaten and even ended up in jail just due to their appearance. If we compare the 1940s of Australia with today’s society, discrimination unfortunately is not gone: we just got better at hiding it. They are individuals and they should have the right to be free.
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