I like John Pilger. He unabashedly and courageously champions minorities. I've enjoyed all of his documentaries over the years, and Utopia is no exception. Although enjoy is a bad choice of word. If he and the experts he interviewed are to be believed, then Australia's treatment of it's first inhabitants is utterly shameful.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Completely agree. I'm surprised there aren't more posts on this film.
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You're absolutely spot on. They like to pretend this isn't the situation, they don't want to be reminded of how they came to be here, and the genocide that took place. To mention it means you're clinging to the past and "should just get over it". But it's not the past. I, myself, have witnessed genocide here, and I am so traumatised by my experiences. How could anyone possibly "get over" something they experience on a daily basis? Australia's attitude to its first people is shameful.
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Your comment is just idiotic.
Try reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
http://www.stolengenerations.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=14
and
http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Thank you for that broader definition of Genocide, Paul.
Comparing all of history's genocides to the Final Solution isn't helpful, jjparish.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
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I assume this comment was written in the 1880's, because it just reeks of white man's burden syndrome.
Working in the movie business since -92
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