Imaginative Landscape 1.One Night Moon - Director: Essay

imaginative landscape 1.One night moon - Director: Rachel perkins 2.peripheral light, selected poems - John Kinsella Prompt ' place real space .' task complete an extended written response expository style.

One Night the Moon - 'the place within us is just as real as the space around us.'

Individuals in the contemporary society are obsessed with the idea of materialism and this sometimes makes it difficult for them to acknowledge the presence of concepts like spiritualism. People practically come to guide themselves in accordance with generally accepted legislations and lose they personal identity as they do so. Jim Ryan, one of the protagonists in Rachel Perkins' 2001 film One Night the Moon is inclined to put across great prejudice when he comes across the opportunity of using an Aboriginal tracker, Albert Yang. The man is blinded by his preconceived thoughts and is unable to realize that it would be more important to focus on the search itself rather than on the persons in charge of it.

Society has long been obsessed with differences and people have used these respective differences with the purpose of discriminating others. Much of the suffering seen during recent centuries is the result of racism, as individuals have been unable to leave their preconceptions aside with the purpose of actually appreciating other people for their actions.The masses seem to find it difficult to accept everyone as equals, this being largely owed to how stereotypes are promoted and accepted as cultural values belonging to society as a whole.

When Jim comes across the idea of using Albert as a main operative in the search for his daughter, he cannot help but to consider stereotypes and to believe that accepting something like this would be against all of his principles. It is likely that he considers the fact that Albert's presumed characteristics are only going to slow down the search instead of improving it. Jim is practically unable to see beyond Albert's appearance and is thus unable to see the place within him. Racism has such a strong influence on the former that he is left with no other option but to refrain from accepting Albert's help.

To a certain degree, it is very likely that Jim is well-acquainted with Albert's abilities, but the fact that his mind is dominated by racist thoughts makes it impossible for him to acknowledge this. The environment in the film provides viewers with the impression that they are seeing a bleak wilderness -- one that is particularly hostile toward white individuals while aboriginal people get a lot of meaning from it. There is both a social and a cultural….....