The death of the animals, part II

I agree that the film has dated badly due to some of the editing and camera effects. I didn't think that particular scene was too bad and when I think of it I can't really think of a modern scene of a similar nature.

I'm baffled by your comment about Easy Rider though. I can see how it's not to everyones taste and that it may be over rated in your opinion but there are no real special effects used in that film. Maybe some strange editing that would have been very original at the time and I believe remains original to this day.

Your comment on the film is also laughable, you're not supposed to be watching this with a critical eye about the "effects" or how the film has been edited. The construction of the film - how it plays out - is part of the story. I just watched the film tonight in 2006 (first time I seen it in about 10 years) and it moved me a hell of a lot more than any of the crap that comes out of Hollywood today. If this film was made today exactly as it is now it would still be an excellent film.

Oh and Easy Rider....another fantastic film!

I saw criticism of the hunters in the scenes that showed the buffalo they shot just rotting on the ground.

They also seemed to shoot at other animals, willy nilly.

Walkabout is one of my favorite films of all time. its a must see in my opinion. The animal death is quick as mentioned earlier. there is one scene though *Spoiler* where this animal gets slit open and the blood just pours out like my grandmas bathtub faucet. its gross, but its important to the film. makes the guy go crazy. it could be worse....u ever hear of the ittalian cannibal films? cannibal holocaust is the most famous...in that. *dont read if you are going to get disturbed* the americans chop off the legs of a giant turtle, and deshell it while still alive, after cutting off its head. someone also shoves a switchblade through a musktrats head, a cute monkeys head is sliced off. in mountian of the cannibal god, a lizard is skinned alive. (one of the grossest things ive ever seen) in jungle holocaust, they kill a big aligator, and skin it, and show its still beating heart. Affrica Addio is terrible with its animal cruelty, spearing an elephant to death. it takes forever! poor thing! made me sick. The Isle, is a korean film where a woman beats a dog, and drowns a bird, and kills a frog. (good movie though) Men behind the sun shows the death of a cat. So....my point is, there are ALOT of sick movies out there, that show animal CRUELTY, in its sickest form....walkabout however, is not cruel with its actual animal death. its quick, and not exploitive, like in the movies i mentioned earlier. If you havent seen it yet, u really should. its a GREAT movie.

Your comment seems quite ignorant. I don't recall hearing of any animal other than human beings destroying an area of rainforest the size of 6 football pitches every second.

It's also ignorant of the fact that mans manufacture of chemicals and the release of those chemicals into the atmosphere which in turn have been proven to affect the ozone, cannot under any stretch of the imagination be labeled as "natural" or in line with nature.

Stopping the use & release of those chemicals into the atmosphere in an attempt to halt the enlargement of the ozone hole again cannot be described as "going against nature".

The people who are REALLY inerfering with nature and natural processes are certainly NOT the environmentalists, they may do some stupid things which if you've got five minutes perhaps you can tell what it is you are thinking about, BUT overwhelmingly the real CULPRITS in this game are the careless humans who in the name of money and manufacturing spill millions of gallons of chemicals into our rivers and seas every year, recent examples, The 2 spills in one of Chinas rivers recently. The use of mercury in the Amazon basin by gold hunters, etc etc etc.

Where I do agree with you is that life is born life lives life dies, that is the way of things, the Earth has been here billons of years, man in his current form (polluting) has been here only 200 years. When the next ice age arrives (or whatever catastrophe happens before that) the ice wil be unstoppable and will wipe the slate clean in the northern hemisphere, 250,000 years later the ice will again recede and whatever life is here at the time will once again move into the temperate northern hemisphere. Life on Earth will probably ultimately continue no matter what. We are insignificant, and we will be dealt with in one way or another. But it does not make it right to continue to pollute the planet.

I empathise deeply with your concerns Silly girl blue, and I suggest you ignore the more ignorant comments on this thread.

There is some scenes which you might find difficult to watch (eg.animals being decapitated) but they are frew and far between. I still urge you strongly to see it, as it's a very beautifull film - Nic Roeg's best in my opinion. The film is about the contrasts - contrasts between nature and the largely human created (artificial) worlds we now inhabit. But the film is determined to show the HORROR as well as the BEAUTY of the natural world, and so in that context it was necessary to show death, as death is a large part of nature.

A very beautifull film though.

We don't need meat to survive.