Hey everyone. So today I did lots. I did an hour of zumba and wii fitness! It was lots of fun and then I moved on to revision. I did some studying on a film called
Walkabout. Definitely worth a watch at some point.
*Spoiler*
A teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her much younger brother (Luc Roeg) become stranded in the wilderness after their father (John Meillon)
goes berserk. After driving them far into the Australian outback for a
picnic, the father suddenly begins shooting at his children. When they
run behind rocks for cover, he sets the car on fire and shoots himself
in the head. The girl conceals what has happened from her brother. After
salvaging what she can, the pair head out into the desert.
By dawn the next day, they are weak, and the boy can barely walk.
Discovering a small pool with a fruiting tree, they spend the day
playing, bathing, and resting. Next morning, the pool has dried up. A
young Aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil)
appears. Though the girl cannot communicate with him, her brother mimes
their need for water, and the newcomer cheerfully shows them how to
draw it from the drying bed of the oasis.
The three travel together for several days, with the Aborigine
sharing food he has caught hunting. The boys learn to communicate, using
words and mime. While the Aborigine goes hunting, she swims naked in a
deep pool.
A change of scene shows a research team working in the desert, all
the men attracted to the only woman. One of them carelessly loses a weather balloon,
which is later found by the three young wanderers. In some versions of
the film, one scene depicts a Caucasian woman walking past the
Aboriginal boy, speaking to him, and spotting the other children. They
do not see her, however. When the boy does not reply, the woman
continues walking over a ridge to a plantation.
There, a white man is seen roughly directing a group of Aboriginal
children, who are making plaster statuettes and other things. He calls a
break and enters the house, where the woman awaits him on a bed.
The older boy guides the siblings to a deserted farm. He discovers a
paved road while collecting sticks in the forest, and excitedly shows
the brother. Soon afterward, he hunts down a water buffalo and is wrestling it to the ground when two white hunters nearly run him
over in a truck. He watches them shoot several buffalo with a rifle. He
returns to the house, catching the girl dressing. He courts her with an
intense, silent dance. Although he dances outside all day and into the
night until he becomes exhausted, she cannot or will not understand what
he is after.
In the morning, the brother wakes his sister and tells her their
companion is gone. After they wash and dress in their school uniforms,
the brother takes her to the Aborigine's body, hanging in a tree. Not
fully comprehending death, the boy offers the body his pen-knife. Before
leaving, the girl wipes ants from the dead boy's chest.
Hiking up the road, the siblings find a nearly deserted mining town,
where they are met by a surly white man who tells them of a place they
can stay.
Years later, a businessman arrives at the home of the now grown-up
girl; while he relates office gossip, she daydreams, imagining a scene
in which she, her brother, and the Aborigine are playing and swimming
naked in the deep pool in the outback.
Then we went and bought a bookcase which am putting together in the photo above. I also got some new trainers!!! WOOT WOOT!!!
PS I'm excited about Glee coming back on Thursday!
