Man this movie trips me out....it is not great or anything, but something keeps telling me to see it again.....and again...what is the allure? Perhaps it is the excitement of being stranded in the Australian Outback as a couple of kids get help from an Aborginal boy whom they befriend as he helps guide them out of the desert...I do love the concept of such a story and that may be why I am attracted to the movie although it does not completely satisfy me in other ways.
PS - PETA people should go nowhere near this movie as animals are indeed killed to make the movie...they even show the aboriginal boy killing a kangaroo and then preparing a meal with the roo. A few small reptiles suffer the same fate...and a cow is killed too at one point by reckless redneck white men who love to hunt. As long as the animals became food I am ok with this killing.
I used to think: you know what would be cool in a movie? Seeing somebody actually slaugter a cow (grew up in dairy country), it could make for a really great shot. Then I saw Apocalypse Now, and it did.
I mean that cow just looked like jello on the inside as the machete nearly seared in two with one blow. I understand that the tribesmen used in this film (in the Philippines) were killing the cow in a sacred ceremony - they kill it and eat it, so the killing would have gone on whether the movie crew was there or not. That makes it ok as far as I am concerned....It was really an intense scene in the movie I must say.
I saw it when I was a boy - maybe that is why I related to the kids...It stuck in my mind forever and I just rented it again....there is something about that movie.
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