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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Zac's 'Australia' review

A few days ago I saw the movie Australia. I thought it was a fantasticmovie. The movie has two themes; the first theme is about getting thecattle from Faraway Downs to Darwin to sell to the army. The secondtheme is about the Japanese invading Australia. The main charters are Lady Ashley, Drover and a half cast boy called Nulla.
The story beginsin England where Lady Ashley wants to go to Australia and persuade herhusband to sell Faraway Downs. When she arrives in Darwin she meets a man called Drover whose job is to move cattle from one place toanother. Drover takes Lady Ashley to Faraway Downs. When they get there they find out that her husband got killed by King George they think with a glass tip spear.
That night Lady Ashley meets a half castboy called Nulla who claims he can use magic. Nulla tells her aboutthe cattle from Faraway Downs crossing the river into Carnies territory. In the morning she tells Fletcher what Nulla had told her.Then Nulla said that Fletchers a lier so Fletcher chases after Nulla and hits him. Lady Ashley then fires Fletcher.
Later Drover comes toFaraway Downs and Lady Ashley tells him what had happened. So Droverdecides to help Lady Ashley. The next day they get ready to go. It takes them many days to get to Darwin. When they get to the Darwin they loaded the cattle just before carnies.
Sometime later, whilstDarwin was being evacuated in preparation of a possible Japaneseinvasion, Nulla gets taken to Mission Island where all half-castechildren live. Two months later Lady Ashley goes to a radio tower tospeak to Nulla but is interrupted by Japanese fighter jets bombing Darwin. Everybody was scared because they were bombing the houses and towers. After the bombing people were helping putting out all the fires.
Drover and his aboriginal friend went to rescue all the kids onMission Island. When Drover arrives at Mission Island he finds all thekids hiding in the trees. They all see a light from some Japanesesoldiers they run down to the boat while Drover's Aboriginal frienddistracts the soldiers. When they are all on the boat they see Droversfriend get shot. When they arrive back in Darwin the see Lady Ashley and they all go back to Faraway Downs.
I thought the story wasfantastic because its full of surprises. The story made me feel happyand sad at different parts.

2 comments:

Rose said...

it looks like you enjoyed the film Zac you have encouraged me to go and see the film myself.

Rose x xxx x x

Kian said...

The movie sounded really good and it makes me want to see it to