Walkabout (Film 1971)



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By no fault of their own, the two children are stranded in the Australian outback. Without enough food or water, they have to find their way back without any help.

When they run into the aboriginal boy, the children were almost at the "end of the line". In order to survive, they are forced to work and live by the lifestyle of the aboriginal boy, who is (to quote the quote) "a spectrum opposite, who they are forced to coexist with)



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The landscape portrayed in the movie is the Australian outback. The outback is nothing other than a desert. Yet this setting acts as two different areas, depending on which perspective you look from (either the children or the aboriginal boy). For the two children, this desert is an uninhabitable environment. They are not used to this type of place and have a hard time adapting. But the aboriginal boy is at home in the desert. He knows where to find everything he needs to survive. So in this sense, the......

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