...did they escape at all, if they clearly didn't have a good escape plan?
Because the escape was a spontaneous thing - they seized an opportunity to jump their guards while cutting timber away from the main penal settlement on Sarah Island.
why, having little food, were they crossing the island taking the hardest route possible and not along the coast?
Firstly, their knowledge of the geography would have been minimal. Secondly, the route they took was more or less the most direct route to the nearest settled areas in the upper Derwent Valley. Thirdly, escapees generally headed for the coast so this would have been the first place the soldiers would have searched - Pearce headed for the coast on his second escape attempt and was re-captured within days.
maybe they could've dug for worms which are a good source of protein?
If someone wants to try to walk for weeks across the south-west wilderness of Tasmania on a diet of earthworms all I can say is "good luck".
also, it seemed, they wanted to row to their destination and got surprised by the soldiers, but there were only two of them(maybe only in the movie?) so they could've overpowered them instead of running away, those rifles took forever to reload, didn't they?
Yes, but there were other soldiers back at Sarah Island. Once the alarm had been raised, the idea of escaping using the boat had to be abandoned. It was difficult for the movie to explain why, without showing the viewer a map. The penal colony was on a small island inside Macquarie Harbour. Pearce and Co were cutting timber somewhere on or near the Gordon River, which flows in the Harbour. So to get out of the Harbour's very narrow mouth they would have to row straight past all the soldiers and guards at Sarah Island. They wouldn't have had a hope of escaping that way once the alarm had been raised. That's why they abandoned the boat and headed east to try to make it overland instead.
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eljuma_1
12 years ago
That last bit made me laugh. Yes, those rifles take a century to reload. But who are going to be the two gently souls that let themselves be shot just so their pals can take those two soldiers out and escape? Would YOU volunteer for that?
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