#rabbit-proof fence

[t0asterbra1n]

watched a movie in film class based on a true story about 3 aboriginal girls who were part of the stolen generation, only to see everyone and their mother on letterboxd making fun of it because they used comic sans (my favorite font)

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Rest in peace, David Gulpilil (1953-2021).

[myrtaceaae]

There was vague discussion of it earlier and I'm watching it now but fuck The Rabbit-Proof Fence is a tough movie

[mudwerks]

(via Daisy Kadibil, 95, Whose Australia Trek Inspired a Film, Dies - The New York Times)

Daisy Kadibil and a biographical note she wrote. After being taken from their parents under an Australian program to assimilate Indigenous people into the dominant society, she and her sister and a cousin walked hundreds of miles across rough terrain to get back home. 

...There, longing for home, they sought to escape. In 1931 they succeeded, embarking on foot on a treacherous nine-week trek north across rough terrain and using as their guide a barbed-wire fence that had been built to keep rabbits away from pastureland — an astonishing feat that inspired a book and the acclaimed 2002 Australian movie “Rabbit-Proof Fence...” 

[dialogue-queered]

Last of the Rabbit-Proof Fence girls laid to rest in her homeland

Hundreds of people have travelled to the remote West Australian community of Jigalong to farewell Daisy Kadibil, the youngest of the three girls whose life stories inspired the award-winning film Rabbit-Proof Fence.

Excerpt:

A member of the Stolen Generations, Ms Kadibil was eight years old when she was taken from her family.

She and her sister, Molly, and their cousin, Gracie, used the rabbit-proof fence to find their way home to Jigalong from the Moore River Native Settlement, a 1,600-kilometre journey.

Their story brought the issue of Australia's Stolen Generations to a national and international audience.

[annaoisk]

A ★★★½ diary entry for Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

[heartbreakfeelsgoodinablog]

Follow your heart, follow the fence

[mudinyourshoes]

Grave of the Fireflies and Rabbit-Proof Fence changed my life when I was a kid. I have vivid memories of watching both of them. Grave of the Fireflies is about a couple of orphans in Kobe at the end of WWII.

It’s a Ghibli film, but not directed by Miyazaki. Rabbit-Proof Fence is about an aboriginal girl in Australia who struggles to keep her family together and escape government resettlement.  

They’re such good movies. I don’t know that I’ll ever have the courage to rewatch them.