Charlie's Country Page #2

Synopsis: Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Rolf de Heer
Production: Monument Releasing
  12 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
108 min
Website
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It's all that...

...white man junk food we eat.

They'll take me to Darwin.

Then you'll die

in the wrong place...

...a long way

from your country.

A long way.

There'll be no one with you...

...no one to look after you.

Right, we'll put you down

as a recreational shooter then.

What?

Recreational?

Hunting is not

recreational.

It's for food.

You still need a license.

How much it gonna cost me?

Sixty dollars.

Sixty dollars

to buy my gun back?

Charlie, you're not

getting your gun back.

It's been confiscated.

You're stealing it.

Look, you can't have

a purchase permit for it.

All right, you illegally

modified it

to be a concealable weapon.

You're lucky Brum

didn't charge you!

But I didn't know that.

I know,

it's just not an excuse.

I'm not

a recreational shooter...

I am...

...a hunter.

I danced for...

...the Queen of England...

...when they opened

that building.

I bet you never did that.

And again.

Okay.

Good thing you gave up

smoking when you did, Charlie.

Your lungs

are packin' it in.

Next time you're in Darwin,

we should get

your chest X-rayed.

But you gotta

look after yourself.

No more ganja, okay?

And you need

to eat better.

Eat what?

White fella junk food?

Yeah, it's a problem.

F***in' yeah, it's a problem.

See this? Doesn't fit.

I can't eat with 'em,

and I can't eat

without them.

I'm starving.

Well, look,

I'm not the dentist.

You gotta wait

for the dentist to come.

I'll be dead by then.

What are you doing?

Making a spear.

Why?

For hunting.

Catch something to eat.

Why don't you use a gun?

Why don't you go away?

Go and play somewhere.

One, two, three.

- Hey Charlie.

- Hey Luke!

What do you got there?

I made a spear.

Hunting spear.

Wow.

It's incredible

but I'm gonna have to take it.

What?

Well, you can't just go

walking through town

with a dangerous weapon.

It's not a dangerous weapon.

It's a hunting spear,

not a battle spear.

You know what happened

in that other community.

One bloke dead and the other

one in the hospital.

But you took my gun!

Come on.

It's a dangerous weapon,

I'm gonna have

to destroy it.

Well, f*** you then.

Treacherous bastard!

F*** those thieving...

...white bastards.

Why did you come here?

From far away...

stealing people's stuff!

Is this your land?

F***ing bastard.

I need to get money too.

I want my money!

All my money, the whole lot!

Where is it? I need it now!

What's going on?

That's a police car!

I'm borrowing it.

They took your rifle...

...and your car.

They took...

...my spear...

...and my gun.

I work for them

catching criminals

and they don't pay me.

They stole our land

and put a police station on it.

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David Gulpilil

David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM (born 1 July 1953), is an Australian traditional dancer and actor. more…

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