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Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale is a brutally honest film showing the horrors of Australian invasion, set at the turn of the 19th century.
The film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all.
When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north.
Unfamiliar with the Tasmanian wilderness she enlists the help of an orphaned Aboriginal tracker Billy. Marked by their traumas, the two fight to overcome their distrust and prejudices against the backdrop of Australia's infamous '<a href="https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/massacres-the-frontier-violence-thats-hard-to-accept">Black War</a>'.
Director Jennifer Kent defended her decision to show extreme depictions of rape and murder, saying that the film contains historically accurate depictions of the violence and racism that colonial power inflicted on Aboriginal people of that time.
<blockquote class="">We've made this film in collaboration with Tasmanian Aboriginal elders, and they feel it's an honest and necessary depiction of their history and a story that needs to be told.<cite>— Jennifer Kent, Director</cite></blockquote>
<small>Source: The Nightingale (Film) - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/the-nightingale</small>
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Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is a brutally honest film showing the horrors of Australian invasion, set at the turn of the 19th century.
The film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare’s husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all.
When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north.
Unfamiliar with the Tasmanian wilderness she enlists the help of an orphaned Aboriginal tracker Billy. Marked by their traumas, the two fight to overcome their distrust and prejudices against the backdrop of Australia’s infamous ‘Black War‘.
Director Jennifer Kent defended her decision to show extreme depictions of rape and murder, saying that the film contains historically accurate depictions of the violence and racism that colonial power inflicted on Aboriginal people of that time.
We’ve made this film in collaboration with Tasmanian Aboriginal elders, and they feel it’s an honest and necessary depiction of their history and a story that needs to be told.— Jennifer Kent, Director
Source: The Nightingale (Film) – Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/the-nightingale
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