Australia Movie Belonging

In the film, Australia, Baz luhrman focuses on the power of belonging. This is shown through Nullah, Lady Sarah Ashley and Drover as the film progresses each character finds their belonging and identity. Baz Luhrman uses different camera techniques, such as different camera angles and music to intensify different scenes and represent different points of the film. Through these three characters Baz Luhrman explores the idea of belonging in Australia and how each person’s identity is important and where a person belongs can be different although people of different backgrounds can find their belonging with each other.
In the film, Australia, Baz Luhrman represents the Indigenous culture through Nullah as his cultural bond to the land and to …show more content…
In the start of the film Lady Sarah is seen as an aristrocrat , arrogant and above the upper class of Darwin, she holds her head high, walks quickly with fast steps and where a crisp blue jacket against white. Throughout the film she gains a strong motherly bond with Nullah, which strengthens throughout the film. After the death of Nullah’s mother, Lady Ashleigh tried to comfort Nullah, ‘I wanted to extend my condolences’, but did so awkwardly as she ‘is not good with children’. As she kneeled down she put newspaper under her knees so she wouldn’t get dirty, but when Nullah was being taken away to Mission Island she didn’t worry about that, instead she lay on the ground calling for Nullah and didn’t worry about what the crowd thought. After telling Nullah the story of the Wizard of Oz she begins to have a slight bond with him, the bond began after singing ‘Far over the rainbow’. When droving the cattle to Darwin, Nullah was using his Gulliper magic to stop the cattle, before falling she ran to him and caught him in her arms and comforted him, ‘It’s alright, your safe.’ Drover noticed the connection between the two growing as Sarah started to have a motherly bond for Nullah. At the start of the film Lady Sarah and Drover didn’t meet very well as Drover got into a fight and Sarah’s suitcases …show more content…
In the beginning, when Drover drives Lady Ashley home, he states that ‘No man hires me, no man fires me’, which represents his free lifestyle in the outback. The harmonica playing in the background and the dusty windscreen gives an extra feeling of the outback and Drovers lifestyle. In the bar scene Drover get’s in a fight because of his relationships with the Indigenous, this represents how he stands up for he believes in and his values were rather different from the common values of the time. Throughout the film Drover’s friendship with Lady Sarah grows, this is seen when he comes to the ball. As he enters the room the camera focuses on him and the other voices seem to fade, the camera also switches between him and Lady Sarah, after everyone stops staring upbeat music starts again. Although the focus point is Lady Sarah and Drover, people looking at them can be seen in the shot, the music that is upbeat ,happy and light-hearted shows the high spirits of the two characters. Drover’s arrival at the ball influenced Sarah’s decision about the sale of Faraway Downs, as she sore Drover she changed her mind from selling to Carney to actually wanting to stay, for Drover and Nullah. Close to the end of the movie when the Japenese bombed Darwin, Drover sets out with Mugirri to find Sarah and Nullah.