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While society experienced notable progress in the field of discrimination during the recent decades, matters were very different at the beginning of the twentieth century, considering that race was an influential factor at the time. Philip Noyce's 2002 motion picture Rabbit-Proof Fence puts across an account regarding individuals of mixed descent in Australia as they struggle to avoid falling victim to the persecutions inflicted by the Half-Caste Act. The government's attitude regarding half-castes was especially discriminatory and addressed an absurd matter, considering that it wanted to make it impossible for people of mixed descent to continue to exist in a presumably perfect Australian environment.

Although the film initially seems to be lacking action and other factors that are generally important in spicing a motion picture, it compensates for its documentary-like appearance through putting across concepts characteristic to the Australian society in the 1930s.
European settlers considered that Australian aboriginals were inferior because of the technologies they used and because of their overall failure to be assimilated by the communities that invaded the continent.

Considering that the methods trackers use to find fugitives, one is likely to acknowledge that they believed that aboriginals were not very different from animals. As they concentrate to come across the three girls that left the re-education camp, trackers virtually use the same methods that these girls used with the purpose of finding animals that they wanted to eat. This makes it possible for viewers to understand that Europeans underestimated natives and actually considered that they were unable to employ intelligence in covering their tracks. Not only do the girls manage to elude their pursuers, but they….....

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