Language Identity and Culture

Language

Visual language (pictures, shots, colour)

Moon motif

Limited dialogue, lots of music

Cultures

White settler culture

Indigenous culture

House with fence around it- ownership of land

Possession vibe

Belonging to the land

Houses aren't destructive to the land- wooden

Lots of landscape shots

Colour and lighting

European music with the white settlers

Didgeridoos and drums indigenous

Identity

March in lines

Tracking- looking at details in the land

Rose

Memories of Emily

Harmonizing voices= moon, memories.

Lighting and colour changes when she remembers times with Emily

Desperation = reaches out to Albert

Jim

Protector of the family

Pride/in control

Albert's wife sings at the funeral

Role of women in reconciliation

Albert

Knowledge of land

"This land is me"

Excluded but wants to help

Rejected by Police and Society

Compassion

Emily

Waves at Albert's child

Foreshadows the future

Innocence

Purpose

Show the Indigenous knowledge

Lead to reconciliation

Loss of understanding of his own world