The Proposition

"The Proposition" starring Guy Pearce, is a ground breaking film in terms of its portrayal of frontier guerilla warfare in Australia in the good old days of invasion. It is a real step forward in terms of the way Aboriginal people are framed in the media and in history. It is not a liberal masochist's white guilt fest, but instead is just a realistic portrayal of frontier life in the 1800's. Indigenous characters and stories are not the focus of the film, which is actually about Irish bushrangers. But the landscape is littered with cattle and human corpses riddled with spears - an acknowledgement (at last) of the unsung frontier warfare that claimed the lives of so many British and Indigenous warriors in the battle for Australia.

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