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The mountaineous country of Southern Australia in 1922 is the setting for this tale about a mysterious tracker (David Gulpilil) of aboriginal descent who must find a fugitive on the run, while being followed closely by three mounted white policemen.This is the fourth movie I've seen David Gulpilil in; the others were Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout (1971), Rabbit Proof Fence (2002), and The Proposition (2005). (I never saw and don't care about Crocodile Dundee).
Tracker is an worthwhile movie, though I found the songs featured somewhat intrusive at times. Quite fascinating is the 53 minute documentary featured on the DVD. Though we only seem glimpses of it, David's hunting and tracking skills are astonishing.
It's sad that this extraordinary actor lives in such squalor.
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HiI enjoyed this movie too. David Gulpilil really is a fantastic actor.
Here in Oz the squalid conditions in which Aboriginal people live is an embarrassment to all of us. You don't know what squalor is until you've seen an Aboriginal settlement in the Northern Territory. I honestly think that many in the third world live in better conditions than some of our own citizens in what is one of the wealthiest per capita countries in the world.
Cheers. Doug
Doug,Thanks for your insight.
I can't speak for other Americans, but I am ashamed at how white European settlers treated native Americans during westward expansion.
Along with shooting them like vermin ("the only good Indian is a dead one"), the U.S. army distributed blankets infected with small pox among the Indians. And of course, the Indians had no natural immunity to small pox. It was truly a European disease.
I saw a similar attitude manifested by the lead white policeman in The Tracker toward the aborigines. It saddened me and reminded me of the similar situation during westward expansion.
There is often talk about how we need to learn from history and not to repeat the errors of the past. But the cruel treatment of aboriginal peoples all over the world, largely by technologically savvy white Europeans settling the Americas, Africa, and Australia, is an ugly and shameful chapter of human history.
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