Member review

Rabbit Proof Fence is a tense and emotional true story about three aborigine girls, Molly, Daisy and Grace, who are kidnapped by English people, and it shows how they escape and their journey back to their family.

It starts by showing the family hunting and then going to get rations at their local outpost. On the way back, a group of men trap them and take them away in a car. They are then taken to a government camp to be trained as domestic staff, but they quickly escape and start the thousand-mile journey back to their family.

The actors play well as their characters, as they make the film believable. Characters such as the three girls, Molly (Everlyn Sampi), Daisy (Tianna Sansbury) and Grace (Laura Monaghan), as, even though they don’t speak a lot, play interesting and respectable characters throughout the film. Kenneth Branagh plays well as Mr. A.O Neville, a character you will come to despise throughout the film. All the supporting cast and extras play convincing characters and provide intensity throughout the film.

The film provides a lot of emotions, as you feel sorry for all the children caught up in the camps, and their parents, as they no longer can see their children. It makes you annoyed at the camp owners, who have no respect for the children and their families. It can also scare you, as the three girls are always on the run from men who could kill them, and they don’t know who they can trust and who they can’t.

Rabbit Proof Fence provides a detailed look at a forgotten part of the 20th century, and is an emotional journey throughout, it can make you cry and smile as the girls travel an amazing journey through a country with hundreds of people searching from them.