In the movie they are stolen because they are seen as a danger to themselves. They then want to mix them enough until their original color is no longer visible. Was ignorant capturing of these aboriginals only done for reasons for their false ideological idea that they are "helping them"? Or was there some other more racist more beneficial reason for the white Australian?
shareKenneth Branagh's character (I believe) asks something like "Don't they realize we're doing it for their own good"? He delivers it right down the middle--you can't tell if he thinks he means it or he's only parroting the government line. Perfect.
shareHe delivers it right down the middle--you can't tell if he thinks he means it or he's only parroting the government line.Yes. It's pretty much left open-ended for the viewer to ponder the veracity of the statement which is the way it should be IMO.🐭 share
@biggacy4
No, the Australian government was just being racist as hell,flat-out. They had this stupid and ridiculous racist belief that if they could just integrate the aboriginal people into white society by stripping them completely of their own culture, that it would be better for them. And they thought that the more integrated they got,the less aboriginals there would be. Of course, ripping them from their own culture and taking kids from their parents never to see them again didn't "help" them at all---it only made some things worse for them,psychologically and emotionally. Check out a documentary called STOLEN GENERATIONS, which goes more into depth about all that. Plus the situation wasn't even about "half-castes' so much (I know that's British term,me being an American, I can say that it's virtually unknown in the U.S.) it was about aboriginal people and how they got robbed of they're culture for darn near a century.
In the USA they were called half-breeds. Research it. They were ripped away from their Native American mothers and sent to boarding schools where they were beaten for speaking their languages, beaten, raped, and had their hair chopped off, had Christianity forced upon them, etc.
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because they believed that it was cruel to leave half-castes to grow up among Aboriginal 'savages' where they would revert to their stone age habits. Instead they could grow up to become 'white'
shareIt's pure racism, the belief that the European part of a child of mixed heritage makes that child worth "saving".
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