A Masterpiece!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It sucks and is poorly done with bad actors with a week story i don't see how any one could like this trash. The creators have done a lazy job at this and they can die in a hole.This gay movie is so bad i threw a brick at the TV,it is a trash film and i would rather watch a naked old hobo swim in a massive can of beans

Like a number of films from the Australian "New Wave" of the 1970s, such as "Walkabout" and "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith", "Rabbit-Proof Fence" takes for its subject relationships between the country's white and Aboriginal communities. (David Gulpilil, one of the stars of "Walkabout", has an important role here). It is a historical drama, set in 1931, and loosely based on a true story. The film examines the curious form of racism which existed in the country, particularly in Western Australia, during the early part of the twentieth century.At this period Aborigines were not accepted as equal Australian citizens. They were still seen as primitive, backward people who needed protection, not only from ill-intentioned white people but also, more importantly, from themselves. The official charged with their protection in Western Australia was the Chief Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville, a man who had very wide powers as far as their welfare was concerned. It would appear from the film that Neville could determine not only where they could live and whom they could marry, but even such trivial matters as whether they would be allowed to buy a new pair of shoes.Many racist societies, such as the American Deep South or Apartheid-era South Africa, have tried to discourage, or even forbid, racially mixed marriages. In Australia things were different. Under certain circumstances, interracial marriage was positively encouraged. The white authorities had a particular concern about mixed-race individuals, who because of their white ancestry were considered "too good" for a traditional Aboriginal way of life, but because of their black ancestry were considered "not good enough" to be accepted as equals by white society. Mixed race children were often taken from their families to be brought up in state-run orphanages, with the intention that they should eventually find work as agricultural labourers or domestic servants, regarded as an appropriate position in life for them. They were encouraged to marry white people, with the intention that after several generations their "black blood" would be bred out of them and Australia would be inhabited exclusively by people who were, to all intents and purposes, "white". The film tells the story of three such mixed-race girls, sisters Molly and Daisy and their cousin Gracie, who are forcibly removed from their Aboriginal mothers, their white fathers having long since disappeared from their lives. They are placed in the Moore River Native Settlement near Perth, around 1,500 miles south of their original home in the northern part of the State. Unhappy in their new home, and desperate to be reunited with their family, they flee the settlement and attempt to walk home. The film's title is taken from the "rabbit-proof fence" erected to protect Western Australia's farmlands from the wild rabbits foolishly introduced to the country by European settlers; the girls, knowing that their original home lies close to the fence, use it as their guide during their journey.Like a number of Australian films such as "Walkabout" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock", this one is notable for its visual beauty and its photography of the country's landscapes. It was directed by Phillip Noyce, one of a number of Australian film-makers who have come to prominence, both in their own country and internationally, since the beginning of the "New Wave". The story it tells is a moving one; I doubt if anyone, regardless of their views on the contentious political issues it highlights, could fail to be touched by the plight of these three young girls or by their steadfast determination to be reunited with their families.There is a good contribution from that fine actor Kenneth Branagh as Neville (or "Mr. Devil" as the Aborigines call him). Although the film is set in the 1930s, the period when Fascism was on the march in Europe, Neville is not a racist in the same way as the Nazis were racist. He does not hate the Aboriginal peoples in the way the Nazis hated the Jews and other racial minorities. He sincerely believes that he is doing his best to help them, but cannot see the harm that his well-intentioned, if patronising, paternalism is actually doing. Branagh plays Neville with a British rather than an Australian accent, but this may well be historically correct. Neville was not a native born Australian but an immigrant from Britain. He was, however, considerably older than the character portrayed in the film; Neville would have been in his mid- fifties at the time of the events depicted here, whereas Branagh was only 41 at the time the film was made.The film, and the book on which it is based, have aroused controversy in Australia itself, where conservative historians and political commentators have cast doubt on the historical accuracy of its claims, although it has been welcomed by Aboriginal activists who regard it as casting light on the plight of what they call the "Stolen Generation". Not being Australian myself, I am not in a position to take sides in this controversy, so will content myself with assessing "Rabbit-Proof Fence" as a piece of film-making. And, seen in that light, it is a very good one. Although since the early nineties Noyce has mostly worked in Hollywood rather than his native land, he has here made his contribution to the already substantial corpus of excellent Australian movies. 8/10

The most disturbing thing about this movie is that it is true.Thankfully it relays a story that needs to be told about the Australian Government's policy of taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude in 1931 Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary.The film is surprisingly captivating considering that very little happens during the journey and the lead actress Everlyn Sampi who plays Molly is especially good. It is hard to believe that all the child actors and extras had never acted before this film.I would highly recommend this as a must watch movie.

Characters:Molly: She is the oldest girl of three and Daisy's sister. She is 14- years old.Gracie: She is Molly and Daisy's cousin. She is the middle one. She is 10-years old.Daisy: She is the youngest one. She is 8-years old.The film is a 2002 Australian drama film. It is directed by Philip Noyce. Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" written by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is based on a true story. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1500 miles (2400 km) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being pursued by a white authority figure and an Aboriginal tracker. The soundtrack to the film is called "Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence", is made by a man named Peter Gabriel.This is in Western Australia during the 1930s. The film begins in the remote town of Jigalong where 14-year old Molly, and 8-year old Daisy, lives with their mother, grandmother and their 10-year old cousin Gracie. Thousands of miles away, the "protector" of the Aborigines, A.O. Neville, signs an order to take the girls to his re-education camp. Neville calls people like these girls "half-castes", they have one white and one aboriginal parent. Neville says that the aboriginal peoples of Australia are a danger to themselves, and that the "half-castes" must be bred out of existence. The girls are taken from Jigalong to the camp at Moore River. Half-castes that are of a certain age live at the camps and are taught to become servants for the whites living in Australia. The three girls, Molly, Gracie and Daisy decide to escape from the camp and walk home to Jigalong. The Aboriginal tracker, Moodoo, is called in to find the girls and bring them back to the camp. They evade Moodoo several times, receiving aid from strangers in the harsh Australian country they travel. After a long walk they find the rabbit-proof fence and knows that they can follow it north to Jigalong. Neville figures out their strategy and sends Moodoo and a local constable, Riggs, after them.I think this was a great film with facts about differences between people and what people do to other people. Here the white people want to eradicate the aborigines, and "help" the half-castes. I will recommend this film, because it is very interesting. But I will not recommend it for a cozy evening.