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C olonisation is a brutal process, one in which everyone involved is debased. But underneath that stark truth are complex power dynamics that call for more nuanced discussion. She is overdue her ticket of leave and wants to be with her husband and child, but Hawkins refuses to relinquish his control. His abuse of power culminates in horrific sexual and physical violence — depicted so unflinchingly by Kent that some viewers have walked out of cinemas — that strips Clare of everything she holds dear. Billy is a Letteremairrener man, whose family have also been murdered by the colonists — and as he and Clare travel across the country, her racism softens, and their relationship becomes a space in which to explore the shared trauma and loss they have both suffered at the hands of white men. She has elicited a world-class performance from Franciosi, in a demanding and harrowing role. The Nightingale also claims to be the first full-length feature to use Palawa Kani, a dialect reconstructed from near-extinct Indigenous Tasmanian languages.
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The Bechdel Test assesses fiction works by following a simple rule of three criteria: 1 it has to have at least two women in it, who 2 talk to each other, about 3 something besides a man. The rule might seem pretty straight-forward, but it's shocking just how many films fail to pass this reasonable criteria. Even seemingly female-led films like Notting Hill and Love Actually barely scrape by. While Bechdel - a cartoonist, not an academic - has had difficulty taking ownership for the test's mass notoriety, she says she has learned to embrace the phenomenon, particularly given its guiding principle, that women are subjects, not objects. However, this concept isn't just some quip pointed out by a cartoonist.
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