During the film the 'Rabbit Proof Fence' we are shown the importance of culture and the meaning it has for those within it. They have traditions and beliefs that are strong and meaningful and are extremely importance to their race. The culture that we are shown in the film is the aboriginal culture at its purest. Yet that is how they live and what they love. What the film also shows is the crushing of that culture and the unregarded disrespect towards the aborigines. The freedom that was once their culture was gradually being closed upon and smothered out even though the aim was to 'blot out the black' in only the half-castes. The white began the plan to breed out the black gene to get rid of the half-caste race that would apparently have no place in society in the future.
In my image I can imagine the spirit bird surrounded by aboriginal patterns that, as they move further away from the bird, get whiter and whiter and maybe change into objects or ideas that portray the white race. Also towards the middle, the colours would be earthy colours (reds, browns, blacks) symbolizing the aboriginals and their natural home.
The spirit bird represents the freedom that the culture has within their own land but the encroaching white race are smothering that and taking their culture from them as they close in on the aboriginals as people and an important culture of Australia. The fact that the white are succeeding in the battle shows their power and their opinion of status over the aboriginals.
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