Stolen Girls Film Analysis

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The first scene in the film instantly gives the audience a sense of poverty and loneliness of being in the outback of Australia. Thornton constantly repeats the colonial theme through the two main characters “Samson & Delilah”. “Samson and Delilah” are portrayed in the film as looking lost or misplaced in the harsh Australian outback. Although the fear and distress of the colonial period seems a piece of the past for all Australians, and also that todays Aborigine children don’t face the threat of the Stolen Generations, they still are experiencing the torment and trauma. Warwick Thornton’s adaption of the white Australian theme is used as a symbol in film showing the fear and anxiety of aboriginals feeling as though they do not belong in contemporary

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