Post-colonial Lense in Rabbit proof fence

I wondered for several days to find out which subject to do this blog post on. I could never find a good one. New it's late Friday, and I feel like going for a easy one. Rabbit proof fence, the best example of Imperialism I can think up.

RABBIT PROOF FENCE


Rabbit proof Fence is a depressing story of three African children who are the victims of Imperialism and get taken from their family. They then proceed to attempt to return to their loving families, through a long series of fortunate events, backstabbing, and horrible events. They eventually return to their families, however. Imperialism is rich in this story; The entire reason they were taken from their homes was because the Europeans thought they were doing them a favor; by making their children white. In several points of the film the Europeans say that they are "Upgrading" the Africans to white. This is just the most prominent example of Imperialism

I post-colonial critic would have mixed thoughts about this film: Unhappy as this movie is full of Imperialism; figuratively dripping with it, and happy a they can write a book on the subject! In all truthfulness, a post colonial critic would view this movie in a good light as it portrays the imperialism as bad and evil, litterly having imperialistic forces as the antagonist in the film. However, the movie shows that not all Europeans follow imperialism, with a European man helping the children out, and even an Africa calling them out (to counteract the previous scene).

This text is suppost to be viewed in a post-colonial lense; if forces you to employ the lense via its numerous scenes outlining the ideals of Imperialism. Watching the movie without this lense would give you a dry and quite boring show; if this were possible.

I believe that in general this is a wonderful film, it brings about the evils of Imperialism in an easy to understand way to those who probably never understood how these people thought.