Just wondering if anyone else thought that the character Lena was pregnant? Throwing up in the bathrooms and how she was so repulsed by it when her friend says she thinks shes pregnant led me to believe this but i was unsure?
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I grew up in a area that had a lot of Aboriginal people where some of them were half castes. A lot of them like Dannielle Hall did not really have the features but if you do look carefully, you can tell that she has some Aboriginal blood in her.
People in different parts of Australia speak differently. I would say since they were not professional actors, her accent was her own but she may not speak the stuff she did in the movie in real life.
I didn't see anything wrong with her accent (could be because my accent is kind of like hers but I'm full blooded asian lol).
What I am dissapointed in was that she has never done any other movies since this one. I thought she had potential to go on further in this industry.
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They're not. Strangely enough, there is no racial bias in this film, what it shows is that we're all victims of society. I've lived out in the country, and I know you can't stereotype on race. There is no right or wrong side, and that's what this movie shows. Sure, Liam shouldn't have have whacked the cop two-by-four, but the cop shouldn't have called Vaughn 'boy' either. Each side hates eachother with passion. And then there are those of us who get caught in the cross-fire, the ones who just want to live peacefully side-by-side. What they don't realise is that they need to stop and take the time to catch up with us.
Vaughn: "...but the war is still going on."
Lena: "Is that right?"
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the girl who played Lena is of Aboriginal descent. like her character she has an Aboriginal mother and an non-Aboriginal father. she is also from a small town. like a person before said, many fair skinned Aboriginal people don't neccessarily look 'Aboriginal'. her looking more irish had nothing to do with appealing to a wider audience, it was central to the story, as Vaughn didn't know until close to the end of the film, that she was Aboriginal. Lena herself denies her Aboriginality throughout the film instead, passing herself off as Irish. the old lady asking Lena "where your people from, girl?" was the point when Vaughn realised she was Aboriginal. Ivan Sen said that Lena is loosely based on him (he has both Aboriginal and European heritage) and that Vaughn is based on his cousins.
the girl in the back seat of the car was probably the driver's girlfriend and she looked like a fair skinned Aboriginal girl to me.
nah she wasn't pregnant, i had that feeling at first, till it showed the food she was eating and the chocolates and was "ah, didn't go down well", i actually had many aboriginal friends growing up and a couple aboriginal girlfriends, some you could not tell were aboriginal until you seen the mother or father, i could tell instantly Lena had aboriginal in her.
also for the argument about the cop scene, i have seen many racist cop's and cop's who were even pricks to me for hanging out with aboriginals and was even told by cop i should hang out with my own people, to which i replied "the wiggers who listen to rap and think they're gangsters?".
There is alot of racism between both Indigenous and White Australians, but you talk and treat each other as an equal and you can easily be friends, also, not one of my aboriginal mates ever stole anything from me, but i have had a few white friends who have.
all in all, i thought this was a really great Australian movie, which there is few of and i like how it's set, the hug at the end between Vaughn and Lena makes me hope there will be a part 2 to this great movie.