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The Walkabout - Online Term Paper

The Walkabout

I felt that this movie was fairly easy to understand. This movie to me symbolized the reality between the real world and the dessert. It is easy to see this within the first few minutes of the movie. There were immediately two camera shots that showed a brick wall and then the city, then a brick wall and to the rural desert. Something that I did notice about the film was the camera shots that showed how little the people were in the real world. The first example of this was when the little boy was walking home he walked beside a huge tree, the big building and little woman inside, and big desert with a little car. These examples were present throughout the entire movie. All of these ...

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why the father in the beginning did anything that he did. Having a picnic in the desert, shooting at the kids, committing suicide and then blowing up the car. I also thought that the oasis was quite odd. The water and fruit were there and disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.
I really liked the part when the three of them were playing in a tree together and at the same time the Aborigines were playing in the car. It was almost like the two swapped places. I thought that it was funny when the radio turned on and they all ran away. It was a comic relief. But why did they hang the body?
All in all, the movie was clear. At the end it took her several seconds to think about “entering” the real world again. It was pretty evident that she was attracted to the boy. In turn this made it hard for her to come back to the real society. The decision might have been a little easier knowing that he was dead. She knew that she had to go back because of her little brother ...

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Added: 5/8/2008 10:20:48 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 429
Pages: 2

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