Australia doesn’t have the best track record when it comes
to dealing with non-whites. Our country is responsible for some of the worst
human rights violations in the Western world, both past and present, and
nowhere is that more evident than in the historical treatment of Aboriginal
Australians. The people we classified as native fauna long before we ever
deemed them human, with our predecessors doing their damnedest to breed them
out of existence to try and erase any evidence that we weren’t the first people
to inhabit this land. This open sore in our history, one that most seem
determined to ignore into absolution, ends up serving as a brilliant backdrop
for this Aussie take on the Western cinematic genre.