Walkabout
Today in class we watched the film 'Walkabout', filmed in 1971.
There is a reoccurring theme of isolation and borders, seen through the images of brick walls and fences. These flashes of plain walls symbolize the characters being blocked in in their world.
Images of legs walking quickly through the streets are impersonal as they don't show faces which doesn't allow the audience to connect with these people. The director has decided to film this in order to show that the main characters are lost in a world full of strangers.
We see the husband and wife stereotypically displayed to the audience with the wife in the kitchen and the husband coming home from work. There is a sense of tension between the two as neither of them acknowledge the other, showing that times are tough and creating conflict within the family.
The labels on the trees also represent how nothing in the world is cometely natural, it is all a show. There is also only a small amount of nature on the windowsill, a poor attempt at connecting with the earth.
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