I recently checked this DVD out from
our local library. Walkabout
was filmed over 40 years ago and is still appealing. It is a story
about two English children, a boy of 7 or 8 and his teenage sister
who are stranded in the Australian desert. An Aboriginal teen on
"walkabout" helps them to survive.
The cinematography was excellent and I
thoroughly enjoyed the glimpses of the animal and plant life of
Australia. The view of the two cultures--the primitive Aborigine
world and the more modern "civilized" Australia was
interesting also.
Walkabout is a wonderful
adventure/survival story with a good amount of depth and tragedy in
it. I didn't care for the plot at the beginning that left the
children stranded and would rather have seen it as some sort of
accident. There is no outright sex in this movie, but definitely some
nudity and sexual tension; also some harsh and brutal scenes. It is
a very simple story and doesn't go off on some crazy unbelievable
tangent. There are some parts of the movie in which the meaning is
not always clear but overall, I enjoyed it.
