Walkabout

Film - 1971

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Walkabout it's a movie with Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra Full cast. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Original title Walkabout Genres Adventure, Drama.

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Nicolas Roeg's second film as director. And it is a work that leaves no one indifferent at all. Certainly a product of its historical context. 1971, we are in the midst of the years of youth protest, which forcefully denounce the distortions and disasters of society and the capitalist production model. In this climate Roeg conceives the story of his teenagers who mockingly get lost in the most authentic and hostile nature of the Australian desert, helped to survive and return to their bourgeois universe by a young aborigine. The story is naturally much more complicated than how I have just described it, suffice it to say that it all starts from a picnic organized by the father of the two teenagers who, for unknown reasons, decided to commit suicide, tries to kill the two children too. Both manage to escape, and so their wandering begins. But the drama the director deals with is much deeper than a simple family tragedy, it is rather about the human impossibility of fully understanding one another. While animals, plants and all of nature are nothing other than what they express, and the author's eye often flows almost into open documentary in some places, civilized man, in his anxiety to build and produce, builds and pave the way to his own isolation and alienation. And the magnificent photography of one of the greatest masters of the medium does nothing but deepen and dig the furrow of incommunicability and misunderstanding. The vitalistic and colorful universe of the hunter in harmony with untamed nature, lyrically contrasts with the decadent suburbs and the ruinous apocalypse of houses gutted and abandoned by man, reconquered by the desert. Here the young aborigine finds himself completing the rite of passage to adulthood in which a member moves away from his community to survive alone in the desert, defending himself from wild beasts Read all

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Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.