Amazing movie of last lesson. Thunderheart (based on the Wounded Knee incident), shows to us the valenty, gratness and the purity of aboriginal people, and the cowardice of the white men, that always is making dirty tricks to get power. In conclussion to me... discriminate against a people, and ignore their rights ... Does it do a greater man?  I think not.
Talking about the story of the movie, it was great, but I didn´t like the ending, I´d wished that Maggie Eagle Bear had not dead. I was wating maybe for a love story between Maggie and Ray. And together they had fought for the rights of the people of the reservation.


Great Movie !!!
Also I think Val Kilmer is a really good actor :D

the movie "tempest" I did not like much because I think it was not  a good movie of the incredible shakespire´s work. But the "rabit proof-fence" movie  I think it's fantastic. It's a very realistic movie and represents very well what was the colonization in Australia because it is based on a true story so is very moving. It's the best movie  that we've seen so far.
Here is my question.
Why always white men feels superior and with more power than other cultures?
It's just a stereotype or is really so?

Related with the topic about Australia and the Prime Minister John Howard refusing to apologize Indigenous People because the stolen generations issue, I've found something interesting.

Midnight Oil, the band that we listened in the last class, has a worldwide hit single called Beds are Burning, which according with Wikipedia is a song "about giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the very last people to come in from the desert". It was the No. 1 song in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in 1988. It's also the third Best Australian Song of all time, according the Australasian Performing Right Association, and one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.


Why am I sharing this song with you? Well, because I'm boring and insomniac this song was performed in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics as a form to apologize to Indigenous People and criticize Howard's decission, showing a "SORRY" in their clothes. John Howard was present in the ceremony.


Here's the presentation video. And the lyrics are below it.








Out where the river broke

The blood wood and the desert oak

Holden wrecks and boiling diesels

Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come

To say fair's fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come 

A fact's a fact

It belongs to them

Let's give it back 

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning
The time has come

To say fair's fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

Four wheels scare the cockatoos

From Kintore East to Yuendemu

The western desert lives and breathes

In forty five degrees

The time has come

To say fair's fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come 

A fact's a fact

It belongs to them

Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning
The time has come

To say fair's fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

Did you like the song? Yes? No? Why? What do you think about this presentation?

Greetings!

The Tempest

I'm one of people that was agree with the movie, I liked it, but was difficult to me find the principal idea...And I didn't understand why Caliban wasn´t happy when Prospera was going to returing to Milan at the end of the movie... I was dislike with the fact that Caliban was an slave, I think he wasn´t bad, also was sad to me when Ariel got his freedom, because he had to leave his Master, and I think they had good feelings each other... But in general I really liked, because Prospera accepted Ferdinand like a husband to Miranda, and She forgives to her brother, forgeting all the pain that he mades to She and her daugther, just for power... If you think this movie shows to us something really worth... The Forgiveness

THE TEMPEST

I didn't like "The Tempest" just because I didn't understand the main idea and facts. So the most general question that I could mention is: What did Prospero do to her daughter Miranda?

I have a doubt What is the real importance of Raleigh? Who really is he?