Rabbit Proof Fence

Watched this very moving sad film yesterday..

Something called Rabbit Proof Fence..

It's a true story from some 60 odd years ago of 3 young aboriginal children that were forcibly separated from their mothers by the state, in a barbaric attempt (that only ended in 1970!) to somehow eradicate the aborignal race, through interbreeding them with white people..

The girls are taken over 1500 kms from their homeland, where they are then imprisoned with a whole bunch of other kids suffering the same fate..

Through bush survival skills, these 3 girls escape the home they are forced to live in, and miraculously (2 of them) find their way back to their mother..

It's an incredibly sad movie that had me crying through the most of it, and even now, just thinking of it, the tears are welling up again..

I find human behaviour often extremely incomprehensible..

peace,
mango.

Movie Review - 3 - The Earthlings Movie

This video is quite distressing.. But still, I believe it could benefit the planet if the vast majority of the human race could open their hearts and minds and watch it honestly and openly..



I particularly would like people to understand some of the truth behind the whole pet industry.. (see here for: my view on companion animals).

Peace,
mango.

Movie Review - 2 - La Belle Verte

I recall, I believe it was sometime around the mid 1990s, when this movie was first released in France. Several members of the small community I lived in, drove in to Perpignan to watch it and came back with mostly favourable reports, and I regreted not going with them..

I made a mental note to myself to watch the movie whenever I got the chance, and then mostly forgot about it..

Until recently when Orange (thank you!) made reference to the film in a comment, and consequently told me that it was available in 9 small bite sized chunks to watch on youtube.. Here's the first morsel:

I loved the idea of the movie.. La Belle Verte translates as "the green beautiful", or, if my rusty knowledge of french still works, I think it could also mean "the beautiful green", and is, I'm guessing, a reference to the planet we currently reside on..

The movie's about an alien race that have already been through, and survived, an industrial revolution, politics, borders, money and similar nonsense, and ended up being a spiritually advanced race of peace loving raw fooders, skilled in the arts of telepathy and teleportation..

And more particularly, about the story of one particular of those aliens, who visits earth, and offers her insightful impressions..

Actually, I noticed that the subtitles were not always correct, and one thing which was translated strangely, was "on mange tout cru" which got translated to "we eat simply" or maybe it was "we eat simple food" instead of "we eat everything raw".

I guess, that much as I enjoyed the movie, I was a little disappointed at some inconsistencies, most noticeably the fact that the sons were not shocked by their desert meals, and that the planet still abused cattle, and made shoes from animal skin.. But hey, that's just me, and knowing a little of the mindset it originated from, I guess it was to be expected too.. In fact, I think I would have had a much more fruit tree orientated background on the other planet, and definitely no clothes..

But overall, a movie worth watching more than once, as some definite valid points to it.. Showing how the world we live in is, as I've stated on numerous previous occasions, totally bonkers!!

The other 8 parts of the movie can be seen by clicking these links:

Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9

Enjoy!! - Peace,
Mango

Movie review - 1 - Hair - The Musical

Now, admittedly, I'm not the worlds greatest musical fan, but about 10 years ago, a friend invited me to watch Hair.. I was very dubious about the prosect, and I guess I had already judged the movie to be not one that I would particularly enjoy..

So you may imagine my delight as I slowly got drawn into the story, and mesmorised by the music..

Hair is, with but one small exception, the movie that I have seen more times than any other.. Each time I hear a little music from it, it brings a small tear of sadness and joy to my eye. I'm not quite sure why..

It's set in the 60s, and not perhaps at all what you might expect..

Let the sun shine in, and be pleasantly surprised!

Read another review about it here:

http://www.squidoo.com/welovehair

Hugs,
PS If you are interested in what the one small exception is (mentioned above), then it is a russian childrens animated puppet show called Kiwaczek.. I think I watched it with my little niece almost every day for several months.. Very sweet story..
 

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