How many animals were harmed in the making !!
Good thing this movie was made in the 70s. In today's age, the censors wouldn't allow the killing of so many animals !!
shareI was hoping it was fake film making and they didn't really kill them just to make a film.
Could they do fake things like that in those days?
I know many people are heartless and couldn't care, and aborigines have to hunt to eat, and hunting to eat is better than our factory farming, but I hope they didn't do it just to make a film.
They weren't simulated. David Gulpilil would regularly go out hunting and he allowed them to film him. As a vegetarian I find it difficult to watch, but that was the reality of his life so I accept it on those terms. As for the hunting scene with the white hunters I don't know how that was staged. I hope they just hooked up with some hunters who allowed them to film rather than hiring them to film the sequence. Even if that were the case I would be reluctant to see access to it prohibited. I think this is a film that teenagers can get so much out of: the realities of their food source, the importance of acceptance, coming to the aid of those in need, a treatment of teenage sexuality that is not not dumbed down to the sleaziest denominator, the devastating effects of suicide etc.
shareI was hoping it was fake film making and they didn't really kill them just to make a film.
It depends on the type of animal. Introduced species, such as cattle, water buffalo, pigs, cane toads, cats, dogs and horses can't be eliminated quickly enough, as far as I'm concerned, and not because I have the slightest sympathy for cattle ranchers, shooters or any other group, and not because I feel no sympathy for the animals.
It's a simple fact that Australia's unique flora and fauna is being driven to extinction at an incredible rate, largely because of these introduced animals. The best thing we can do for the ecology of this continent is to kill the lot. The alternative will be the loss of endless species of marsupials, wallabies, platypus and so forth, many of which haven't even been seen, yet alone described.
This argument can become contentious near cities, where people like to keep cats, but the damage cats do to birds and wildlife is staggering. Personally, I think domestic cats should be banned completely.
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