Rabbit Proof Fence - Full Reaction
Added 2022-01-28 07:45:47 +0000 UTCHey guys! I wanted to watch something Australian-related for Australia day and I was told that this one was a good one to check out. I thought it was really good, and this is probably one of the more emotional reactions I've had. The tears wouldn't stop flowing! Anyway, I hope all my Australian patrons had a happy Australia Day with friends and family and I hope you enjoy the video!
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Good reaction including the outro. Thanks.
Clay F
2024-05-01 09:15:24 +0000 UTCIt awfully sweet of you though of course
Daniel Mooney
2024-04-22 08:09:57 +0000 UTCSaw it in the cinema..was way too deep and meaningful for me. Had to leave for a dart and never made back from the bar 🤔
Daniel Mooney
2024-04-22 08:09:26 +0000 UTCI think the vast majority of Australians are aware and been educated on this issue. We had national 'sorry day' in 2008 when the PM made a public apology.
Darren Hill
2022-02-04 02:04:39 +0000 UTCFor anyone in the US having trouble finding this film it’s available on the Hoopla app which is free for anyone with a public library card. There’s another app called Kanopy that is also free with a library card. Tons of great movies, books and music albums on the platforms. The video quality on Hoopla can be a little hit or miss, that app has a very “public access” sort of feel but Kanopy is quite professional. Both are free though so I highly recommend.
Paul G
2022-02-02 00:54:39 +0000 UTCWell said.
Miki Johnson
2022-01-31 01:52:20 +0000 UTCWhich mean that everyone should RUN to the nearest bookstore or order them online because those are exactly the kind of book you need to read.
Björn Von Knorring
2022-01-30 22:51:27 +0000 UTCColonization is by its very nature racist. To settle a region already occupied by people and think you have a more righteous mandate to live on that land is racist. Now you can differentiate between violent racism from casual racism. Outright genocide to "benevolent re-education". However the paradigm is the same. The colonizer thinks it is better than the indigenous peoples, treats them as inferiors and tries to eradicate its culture, community and identity.
Wu Sha Ling
2022-01-30 11:23:03 +0000 UTCLol, apart from we don't have a NZ day. I was going to recommend Cassie watch "Boy" for Waitangi Day (closest we have to a NZ day) Boy is a Taika Waititi film (before he become world famous outside NZ) and is very funny while a biting social commentary on small town NZ Maori issues. Other good NZ options are: - Hunt for the Wilderpeople (also Taika Waititi) - Maybe "Once were Warriors" but that is a hard watch - Whale Rider (although I've never watched it)
funkyj
2022-01-30 01:55:02 +0000 UTCI must disagree with your assessment of Mr. Neville. First this re-education happened not just in Australia and Canada , but everywhere the Euopeans made colonies including the U.S. India, and Africa. One thing is consistent, huge amounts of paperwork. The writer of the book mentions going through some of it , and much of the paperwork was made public and he clearly had racists feelings. I know you probably didn't know about this but there are many accounts from others at these schools and past employees and religious leaders who have come forward about what occurred.
Damien beatty
2022-01-30 01:02:04 +0000 UTCWhere I live they are against teaching about atrocities like this and have started to ban books that tell their stories.
Gideon James
2022-01-29 13:39:21 +0000 UTCNext Australia day you might want to keep "The Water Diviner" in mind Cass. My go to Australia movie has always been "The Man From Snowy River" or "Phar Lap" but "The Water Diviner" has definitely climbed the list. It has all the feels.
Doug Fisher
2022-01-29 06:09:11 +0000 UTCI would not go so far as to call Neville racist. He was certainly misguided in enforcing this policy out of concern for "half castes". I do not think "full bloods" were targeted. You also have to remember that the movie is based on a book by Molly's daughter, so it would likely have been told from specifically her point of view. They could not have known what AO Neville was doing at the time. Did he relentlessly pursue the girls as depicted in the movie? Did he realy say all the things he said as depcited in the movie? These are possibly actions and dialogue the screen writer has created in order to create the movie's antagonist. I am not excusing the events in this movie. It was an act of barbarity that cannot be excused.I am just not a fan of demonizing people because of a movie that is based on a true story because of the propensity for screenwriters to manufacture events or dialogue that may never have happened. It is similar to what happened with Charles Lightoller in Titanic. James Cameron made him into a villian when based on other accounts he was anything but. This has ceraintly been a learning experience though. After Cassie mentioned the Canada Residential Schools, I read up a little bit about them and found that they had adopted the same policy as this movie depicts. They took the Natives out of their environment and took them away to distant residential schools in a bid to assimilate them into Candaian culture. Ithad exactly the same efffect that the Aborigines suffered who were subjected to this policy. Loss of identity, Alcoholism, suicide etc. It follows the same path as what Australia went through with the government formaly apologising for these actions in 2008.
Brian McGovern
2022-01-29 06:07:43 +0000 UTCFirst time watching this one - Heartbreaking. [I can’t think of anything else to say]
Ike
2022-01-29 05:29:30 +0000 UTCCassie, it seems all videos that came before the Fury reaction no longer exist. Was getting ready to watch the Jaws reaction and saw the problem
Shawn Kildal
2022-01-29 05:04:33 +0000 UTCDo you hate Kenneth Branagh now?
Rich Mcclure
2022-01-29 04:42:07 +0000 UTCYou should watch Whale Rider for New Zealand day. 🥝🥝🥝🥝
Rich Mcclure
2022-01-29 04:29:59 +0000 UTCThank you so much for the suggestion. I do have a VPN, but it's provided by the company I work for, and sadly, I don't have an Australian option :-( I have a vague memory of seeing this movie when I was young but it's really far away in my mind... I would have loved to see it again. Oh well!
Daniel Gauvreau
2022-01-29 02:04:24 +0000 UTCNow I have watched the movie and I can only say such movies are very important because often they get more attention than the best documentaries. Neville is a racist and he says it after 12 minutes when he explains his ideology. So I can only say, as long as people think in terms of 'races' there will always be a basis for racism and the sooner everyone on this planet understands and accepts that there is only one human race, Homo sapiens, and that all other human races are extinct, the sooner we can hopefully leave racism behind. Very good movie and Cassie, there is absolutely no reason to apologize for your tears. 🤗
Chris Lüders
2022-01-29 00:28:01 +0000 UTCWell if you wanna see Cassie cry for 90 minutes straight, here ya go! Great reaction tho. For real. Great movie.
djKENTO
2022-01-28 23:42:49 +0000 UTCThese child actors were really good. They had to carry the movie and they did it.
Carol_White
2022-01-28 23:26:54 +0000 UTCTRy this link. I do not know if it is restricted to Australians only, but if you have a VPN you can watch it free. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/rabbit-proof-fence/84673091819 May get interrupted by ads though. Looks like 4 sections of ads
Brian McGovern
2022-01-28 23:26:36 +0000 UTCI had the same problem.
Mark M
2022-01-28 22:20:53 +0000 UTCI hadn't seen this movie, and even though I was aware that this went on it was still a harrowing watch. Here's a link to the documentary accompanying the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHncbpR7TY
Tobias Eiken
2022-01-28 18:41:17 +0000 UTCBummer, seems I can't find this movie on any Canadian platforms... How did you get your hands on this movie?
Daniel Gauvreau
2022-01-28 18:39:45 +0000 UTCI love your sympathetic heart Cassie. I am an emotional movie, tv viewer as well... you are a special lady. I get emotional watching you get emotional! thank you
Bryan Harris
2022-01-28 14:07:09 +0000 UTCI saw this movie years ago, a few years after it came out I think, though I can not recall how I heard about it or why I felt the need to watch it. After looking it up just now, seems the movie angered lots of people so that’s probably why I wanted to watch it. Since the film came out it seems the situation has gotten better in terms of accepting reality and now the general consensus is one of protection of the aboriginal people and their history. I hope that is true.
JediLounger
2022-01-28 12:44:01 +0000 UTCAustralians are officially embarrassed by, but in our secret hearts very fond of, Crocodile Dundee. Another utterly charming Australian comedy, a hit here in 1966, now unfairly neglected, is They're a Weird Mob.
Henry Fitzgerald
2022-01-28 11:02:48 +0000 UTCI haven't seen this film yet, and I haven't seen a drama directed by Phillip Noyce. I know that he's a fantastic filmmaker.
G
2022-01-28 10:47:36 +0000 UTCHi Cassie, that's a very serious movie and I will watch it this evening (currently it's nearly 11 o'clock am here 😄) because I'm very interested in the topic. A suggestion for an australian comedy would be Crocodile Dundee starring Paul Hogan and you will have a great funny lovestory. 🤗 (maybe also part II which is very underrated). There is a third part, but it is weaker than parts I and II. 😊 Well, I like them all, but not everyone does. 😄
Chris Lüders
2022-01-28 09:58:36 +0000 UTCJust about to finish. Do not apologise for crying. It just shows how much this movie affected you. Tha k you again for watching this. Hopefully more people watch this reaction and check the movie out for themselves.
Brian McGovern
2022-01-28 09:22:58 +0000 UTCMaybe watch a Dutch movie on our Kings day end of April for your Dutch fans 🤩😉😎
Pickupthepieces76
2022-01-28 08:48:25 +0000 UTCI want to thank you for doing this film. I know it is a hard one to watch but it is what I consider one should see. Kenneth Branagh has always been good w films even when he does play a bad person.
GamerGal8684
2022-01-28 08:28:03 +0000 UTCI always look forward to a foreign film. This sounds like a interesting film, I hope to see more films from around the world in the future. Would a poll if where people are from be possible, that would be interesting to see.
David RedEagle
2022-01-28 08:13:37 +0000 UTCI feel really guilty. I knew it was going to be an emotional movie. I feel it is an important movie to see but I did not expect to have that much of an impact on you.
Brian McGovern
2022-01-28 08:12:17 +0000 UTCYou're right, that was a bit insensitive. I just meant that I hope you all had a fun day with friends and family. I changed the wording in the post.
Cassie
2022-01-28 08:08:43 +0000 UTCProbably not the best thing to wish a happy Australia Day in a post about Rabbit Proof Fence. Considering the stolen generation doesn't happen without white settlement first. Just some advice from an Aussie.
David Murray
2022-01-28 07:55:50 +0000 UTCDang. Just started watching the Babadook. Time to change.
Brian McGovern
2022-01-28 07:49:48 +0000 UTC
