Australian Rules Notes Essay

Australian rules is set in a small plain townspeople, where the relationships among the white townspeople and the cardinal people on the missionary work are complex, conflicted and marred by deeply entrenched racism. The local football team in many ways serves to represent the town, it reflects the conflicted relationship between the white people and the Aboriginal people- we begin to understand this as the blast unfolds. Other themes inherent in the film are themes of family, love, loyalty and violence- the silence of domestic violence and the more overt forms of racial violence that button out onto the public spheres of the football field and the pub.The opening narration informs us that half the football team is Aboriginal and that there would not be a football team without the Aboriginal players, therefore we understand how the town team relies on the talent and number of the Aboriginal players. We then construe the contradiction of the white and Aboriginal sons playing position by side as team members followed by the social segregation between the members afterwards the match. This segregation is highlighted by Blacky (a white boy from town) and Dumby (an Aboriginal boy who is the better(p) player on the team) whose friendship transcends these borders and we also witness ways that plastered adults culturally impose this segregation between the white teenager and Aboriginal teenagers. In one of the beginning scenes, just after a football match, Dumby and Blacky want to hang out together, but an older friend takes Dumby affirm to the mission and Blacky cannot follow. Blacky, Clarence and Dumby all call out to each other Nukkin ya and this engross of Aboriginal language between two Aboriginal teenagers and Blacky the white boy signifies the level of their friendship.