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Hey guys! I wanted to watch something Australian-related for Australia day and I was told that this one was a good one to check out. I thought it was really good, and this is probably one of the more emotional reactions I've had. The tears wouldn't stop flowing! Anyway, I hope all my Australian patrons had a happy Australia Day with friends and family and I hope you enjoy the video! 

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Daniel Mooney

Saw it in the cinema..was way too deep and meaningful for me. Had to leave for a dart and never made back from the bar 🤔

Daniel Mooney

It awfully sweet of you though of course

Clay F

Good reaction including the outro. Thanks.

Brian McGovern

Dang. Just started watching the Babadook. Time to change.

David Murray

Probably not the best thing to wish a happy Australia Day in a post about Rabbit Proof Fence. Considering the stolen generation doesn't happen without white settlement first. Just some advice from an Aussie.

Popcorn In Bed

You're right, that was a bit insensitive. I just meant that I hope you all had a fun day with friends and family. I changed the wording in the post.

Brian McGovern

I feel really guilty. I knew it was going to be an emotional movie. I feel it is an important movie to see but I did not expect to have that much of an impact on you.

David RedEagle

I always look forward to a foreign film. This sounds like a interesting film, I hope to see more films from around the world in the future. Would a poll if where people are from be possible, that would be interesting to see.

GamerGal8684

I want to thank you for doing this film. I know it is a hard one to watch but it is what I consider one should see. Kenneth Branagh has always been good w films even when he does play a bad person.

Pickupthepieces76

Maybe watch a Dutch movie on our Kings day end of April for your Dutch fans 🤩😉😎

Brian McGovern

Just about to finish. Do not apologise for crying. It just shows how much this movie affected you. Tha k you again for watching this. Hopefully more people watch this reaction and check the movie out for themselves.

Chris Lüders

Hi Cassie, that's a very serious movie and I will watch it this evening (currently it's nearly 11 o'clock am here 😄) because I'm very interested in the topic. A suggestion for an australian comedy would be Crocodile Dundee starring Paul Hogan and you will have a great funny lovestory. 🤗 (maybe also part II which is very underrated). There is a third part, but it is weaker than parts I and II. 😊 Well, I like them all, but not everyone does. 😄

G

I haven't seen this film yet, and I haven't seen a drama directed by Phillip Noyce. I know that he's a fantastic filmmaker.

Henry Fitzgerald

Australians are officially embarrassed by, but in our secret hearts very fond of, Crocodile Dundee. Another utterly charming Australian comedy, a hit here in 1966, now unfairly neglected, is They're a Weird Mob.

JediLounger

I saw this movie years ago, a few years after it came out I think, though I can not recall how I heard about it or why I felt the need to watch it. After looking it up just now, seems the movie angered lots of people so that’s probably why I wanted to watch it. Since the film came out it seems the situation has gotten better in terms of accepting reality and now the general consensus is one of protection of the aboriginal people and their history. I hope that is true.

Bryan Harris

I love your sympathetic heart Cassie. I am an emotional movie, tv viewer as well... you are a special lady. I get emotional watching you get emotional! thank you

Daniel Gauvreau

Bummer, seems I can't find this movie on any Canadian platforms... How did you get your hands on this movie?

Carol_White

These child actors were really good. They had to carry the movie and they did it.

djKENTO

Well if you wanna see Cassie cry for 90 minutes straight, here ya go! Great reaction tho. For real. Great movie.

Chris Lüders

Now I have watched the movie and I can only say such movies are very important because often they get more attention than the best documentaries. Neville is a racist and he says it after 12 minutes when he explains his ideology. So I can only say, as long as people think in terms of 'races' there will always be a basis for racism and the sooner everyone on this planet understands and accepts that there is only one human race, Homo sapiens, and that all other human races are extinct, the sooner we can hopefully leave racism behind. Very good movie and Cassie, there is absolutely no reason to apologize for your tears. 🤗

Daniel Gauvreau

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I do have a VPN, but it's provided by the company I work for, and sadly, I don't have an Australian option :-( I have a vague memory of seeing this movie when I was young but it's really far away in my mind... I would have loved to see it again. Oh well!

Rich Mcclure

You should watch Whale Rider for New Zealand day. 🥝🥝🥝🥝

Rich Mcclure

Do you hate Kenneth Branagh now?

Shawn Kildal

Cassie, it seems all videos that came before the Fury reaction no longer exist. Was getting ready to watch the Jaws reaction and saw the problem

Ike

First time watching this one - Heartbreaking. [I can’t think of anything else to say]

Brian McGovern

I would not go so far as to call Neville racist. He was certainly misguided in enforcing this policy out of concern for "half castes". I do not think "full bloods" were targeted. You also have to remember that the movie is based on a book by Molly's daughter, so it would likely have been told from specifically her point of view. They could not have known what AO Neville was doing at the time. Did he relentlessly pursue the girls as depicted in the movie? Did he realy say all the things he said as depcited in the movie? These are possibly actions and dialogue the screen writer has created in order to create the movie's antagonist. I am not excusing the events in this movie. It was an act of barbarity that cannot be excused.I am just not a fan of demonizing people because of a movie that is based on a true story because of the propensity for screenwriters to manufacture events or dialogue that may never have happened. It is similar to what happened with Charles Lightoller in Titanic. James Cameron made him into a villian when based on other accounts he was anything but. This has ceraintly been a learning experience though. After Cassie mentioned the Canada Residential Schools, I read up a little bit about them and found that they had adopted the same policy as this movie depicts. They took the Natives out of their environment and took them away to distant residential schools in a bid to assimilate them into Candaian culture. Ithad exactly the same efffect that the Aborigines suffered who were subjected to this policy. Loss of identity, Alcoholism, suicide etc. It follows the same path as what Australia went through with the government formaly apologising for these actions in 2008.

Doug Fisher

Next Australia day you might want to keep "The Water Diviner" in mind Cass. My go to Australia movie has always been "The Man From Snowy River" or "Phar Lap" but "The Water Diviner" has definitely climbed the list. It has all the feels.

Gideon James

Where I live they are against teaching about atrocities like this and have started to ban books that tell their stories. 

Damien beatty

I must disagree with your assessment of Mr. Neville. First this re-education happened not just in Australia and Canada , but everywhere the Euopeans made colonies including the U.S. India, and Africa. One thing is consistent, huge amounts of paperwork. The writer of the book mentions going through some of it , and much of the paperwork was made public and he clearly had racists feelings. I know you probably didn't know about this but there are many accounts from others at these schools and past employees and religious leaders who have come forward about what occurred.

funkyj

Lol, apart from we don't have a NZ day. I was going to recommend Cassie watch "Boy" for Waitangi Day (closest we have to a NZ day) Boy is a Taika Waititi film (before he become world famous outside NZ) and is very funny while a biting social commentary on small town NZ Maori issues. Other good NZ options are: - Hunt for the Wilderpeople (also Taika Waititi) - Maybe "Once were Warriors" but that is a hard watch - Whale Rider (although I've never watched it)

Wu Sha Ling

Colonization is by its very nature racist. To settle a region already occupied by people and think you have a more righteous mandate to live on that land is racist. Now you can differentiate between violent racism from casual racism. Outright genocide to "benevolent re-education". However the paradigm is the same. The colonizer thinks it is better than the indigenous peoples, treats them as inferiors and tries to eradicate its culture, community and identity.

Björn Von Knorring

Which mean that everyone should RUN to the nearest bookstore or order them online because those are exactly the kind of book you need to read.

Paul G

For anyone in the US having trouble finding this film it’s available on the Hoopla app which is free for anyone with a public library card. There’s another app called Kanopy that is also free with a library card. Tons of great movies, books and music albums on the platforms. The video quality on Hoopla can be a little hit or miss, that app has a very “public access” sort of feel but Kanopy is quite professional. Both are free though so I highly recommend.

Darren Hill

I think the vast majority of Australians are aware and been educated on this issue. We had national 'sorry day' in 2008 when the PM made a public apology.