kangaroo hunting scenes disgraceful

Exactly my point and another thought that crossed my head was the fact it was "a ritual" and "their culture" but that's the only thing that removes you from it being brutal, cause it's "disrespectful" since this barbaric act is being used under the gaze of religious right makes it right.

What about the people who think the ritual is nonsense? The people over there amongst their community, who think it's just a barbaric act as well, they may be passive to violence and brutality of it, but they'd think the same thing about Coppola filming the ceremony, they'd go "wow, so exploitative of an unnecessarily barbaric act, but since it's fetish and exotic it disconnects the audience from holding the people at all responsible"

This is the same thing with Wake In Fright, which is ironic since Apocolypse Now and Wake In Fright are very much alike in theme, a sort of horrific dreary odyssey into the darkness of man, the more he travels and nomadds out in this enviroment, the more he discovers and uncovers about his own personality, like the fact he could brutalize the kangaroo's and murder a baby one(These scenes were all staged of course, as opposed to the light shining). except in extremely different ways (Vietnam and The Yabbo are used as the same narrative device). The river in vietnam is similar to the hypnotic floodlight of the hunters vehicle. The main character in Wake In Fright is constantly looking into the light, as though it were driving him deeper and deeper into more self-destructive actions, betting his money away being one of the scenes when he gets photophobic from the light.

The original writer of the book wrote of the kangaroos being lured in with flood lights, standing still, allowing themselves to be killed, as he allows for his own self-destruction.

The difference here is culture, one is one you're familiar with, and you know how barbaric and inept it is, you know it's excessive, but these people live in our society, they do these things whether a camera is around or not, they would have been out there that same night, doing it all over anyway, the difference was they brought a camera.

The very thing they wanted to capture happened in front of their eyes, why? Because they asked some random hunters, these people choose to do these things, they choose to shoot an excess of 50 kangaroos a night, and maybe not even pick up any of them for food, just for fun. And don't tell me the man who's hoping to behead the cow in one blow isn't having fun or getting gratification from this ceremony, because he is.

They're morbid forms of human self-affirmation through cultural rationalization. The difference is one ceremony believes it needs one cow (In some festivals they kill over a dozen cows in the following feast days) while Australian outback "Yabbo prodigy's" feel their ceremony and feast of self-affirmation and pleasure from shooting kangaroos, their rationale is they're menaces, vermin, and a source of food supply, even though all they want to do is shoot and kill something. Just as all those guys want to do is cut the head off the cow in one blow, it's obviously less significant than the meal or the cow itself, to them it would be.

Just as eating them is entirely incidental to them going on a killing spree.

An American saw culture in The Phillipines and said "I should film that"

A Canadian saw culture in Australia and said "I should film that"

How they came about their discoveries were different, but they both made the decision to film something that was gonna happen and was part of these peoples "culture".