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Diane and I watched this remarkable film yesterday, and we both had similar feelings regarding the beauty of the cinematography as it captured the raw beauty of outback Australia. We both agreed on the gut-wrenching impact of the two cultures that collided militaryly over all the country but is overlooked in popular school education. It is commonly thought that the indigenous people did not organize military-like resistance to the invading British convicts; this film puts the ly to those thoughts. Although the organization was of a guerrilla-type formation in this instance, it was the formation that confronted the British military establishment.

As I always do, I first read the comments of those reviews at the bottom of the list because they give me a "rudder" as to the believability of the comments to follow. After seeing the film, I must admit that I find these comments dare I say, silly.

Diane and I viewed the film and emerged with similar thoughts as to its intentions. It is an obvious thought to report that the film was just a copy of male traverses through adolescence but set in a female perspective. The lead actor relates situations about maturation from a female perspective, but that is what distinguishes this film: it is a FEMALE perspective rather than the more typical male passage. I do not consider it detrimental that the script deals with similar occasions in the life of young adults.

I trust that the considerable talent behind this film will continue examining the difficulties of female adolescent passage through the minefield of maturation. I consider it a critical examination of both sexes and both generations.