This film by Herzog looks like a stylized documentary. It shows the attempts by the Aboriginal people of Australia to stop a proposed mining development on their land. Some of the sequences have a dreamlike quality, due to the excellent sound track and the impressive landscape of the outback.
Of course, and not for the first time, the Aborigines loose. In fact, Australia has behaved in a disgusting manner towards its original inhabitants. Worse, as described in this article, this almost genocidal treatment is still going on, under all recent (including the current) governments.
So, in a sense, the film paints too rosy a picture of the 1984 (when it was made) situation, or things have gotten worse since then. As John Pilger writes: 'Apartheid' is alive and well in Australia, one of the richest countries in the world.
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