Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002 Film)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002 Film) Analysis

This film's journey is one of a life of suffering and fighting against injustice. Molly, her sister Daisy and their cousin Gracie are taken to a camp where they are to be trained for indentured servitude. They escape and seek to return home, a 9 week 1,500 mile journey across the Australian outback. In the end we learn that these girls must endure a life of being captured and escape, not only for them but for their children.

It is the resilience of Molly to continue to return home despite being quite literally hunted that brings hope. Her endurance is created by her long-suffering through this process, and it creates a resolve of character within her that will never afford another human being to bring shame to her now fertile hope. The horror of the narrative is that the imprisonment of Molly turns into the imprisonment of her daughter, a now generational offense of injustice.

However, such hope must match, in perpetuity, the wrong beliefs of people such as Neville for as long as they exist. It is with this resolve that the walls of injustice can come down and while Molly did not see justice in her lifetime nor her daughters she will not give up her hope that it will come. Living from this place allows her to be a model for those around her. Whenever an eye looks upon her they will see a woman who never walks falsely regardless of the hardship, oppression or injustice.

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