Rabbit Proof Fence

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A battle of cultures, thoughts and roots that somehow present a critique of the conquest and cancellation of various ethnicities and cultures retired in a past that seems very distant. This film manages to provide a path complaint, union learning where cultures intersect and thoughts. "Rabbit Proof Fence" is an approach to the coherent and intelligent situation that manages to keep the viewer's attention. It is a pity that even though it appears as a backdrop, the issue in question isn´t portrayed more depth about the systematic destruction of their own culture with the excuse of "civilizing" the Indians. More specifically how whites systematically destroy everything that is not like them and much more such as the methods used, or the clash of cultures that forcefully implies the disappearance of the weakest. …show more content…
With this film, in which an atrocity recounted, I wonder if the cultural worldview of the West, represented by people of the various nations of Europe once influenced by ancient Mesopotamian civilizations and India - have left barbarism without committing. With the most diverse arguments and excuses, subjects of their kings, emperors, and even citizens of modern countries, have traveled the world for centuries stealing, usurping, enslaving, colonizing, killing, etc. and always wanting to give their undignified acts a religious, political explanation. This social anthropological high-flying film, "Rabbit Proof Fence" is a great film that makes us empathize with the victim and victimizer repudiation of the

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