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I have "loved" David Gulpilil ever since I saw him in Storm Boy when I was a child. Great actor, handsome looks and features; could have been the leading man in so many movies - if only the people who matter had realised this. Frankly, Aboriginal men can make your head turn (and being easy on the eye is a definite bonus for a leading man) and the accent he has is like music to the ears. I want to see this movie just because David Gulpilil is in it!

It's a very good movie.

i saw this film at a neighborhood theater in Chicago (south side) The name of the Theater was the "States Theater) i was just a kid and didnt really understand what was really going on with it. Years later I understood what was really happening. What an interesting story. Thanks for all the info, really.

I just saw this documentary and it made me so sad and angry. Australia is not a nice country. Their white people are worse than our America's white people when it comes to bigotry, and ignorance of its first peoples. If I was a rich Australian like Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman or Russel Crow I would use my influence to help the Aboriginal peoples of their homeland.

Are you Australian? No I'm Irish Burst out laughing

And they call it the 'lucky' country. The land of a 'fair go'. I call it white privilege. So, 'lucky', and a 'fair go', if you're white. And 'pull ya weight,like the rest of us', if you're a so called, 'aboriginal';also commonly referred to as Boongs or Coons by many white Australians.. The latter attitude of 'pull your weight', paying no attention to the historical significance of why the first people of this nation are so damaged. It's like ordering a rape victim to 'get it together', 'and stop playing the victim'. A complete disregard for the consequences of our white forefathers actions.. If you don't know the past, you can't possibly understand the present, nor the future.. I have no pride in my nationality, ethnicity, or my country of birth. We don't get to choose the last two things. But I stand in solidarity with the first people of this ancient land-only recently known as Australia as we know it for a mere 200 plus years. "if we don't go into the past and find out how we got this way, we will think that we were always this way. And if you think that you were always in the condition that you're in right now, it's impossible for you to have too much confidence in yourself, you become worthless, almost nothing." Malcolm X

Full documentary please?

We watched this in my introductory anthropology course as a warming against exoticizing human cultures. Great fucking video

What if they were yellow?

Needs more smartphones. I love it hehe... always a favorite to share around Australia Day. 

This could really use some tightening up. At points it really drags. 15 minutes would have been enough.

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When you've stripped people of their language, culture and dignity and spent the last 200 hundred years dehumanizing a race, you can't complain now that they won't integrate with your model of society. The state of Aboriginals in Australia is nothing unique, the same is happening with Native communities from South America to Africa. There's no hard calculations to see that when you stick people on a reservation with no money, no education and no opportunities that they will turn to crime, drugs and alcoholics and basically anything to take them out of a reality where they have no influence of freedoms in their own country. Australia is a country where Natives weren't classed as human until the 1950s. Now white Australians are some of the most racist people on earth and they can't see the hypocrisy of turning away thousands of refugees in a country made of immigrants. 

Why don't they ever speak in the film? Do the Aboriginals speak English or do they speak their own language?