In these movie, there are quite a lot of interesting character, but the character that draw the most attentions from me after I watched this movie is the Drover played by Hugh Jackman. Why? I think is because this character has shown quite a lot of humanities in the movie, both positive and negative side, which make this character more alive and acceptable. This character shows a few changes which is quite obvious in the movie.
What's a drover? The drover is a freelance Australian drover who makes his living steering thousands of heads of cattle across hundreds of miles of outback. The Drover is a solitary man. He used to live alone in his life of driving the cattle and horse. He is his own man. He doesn’t want to be beholden to anybody. He relies on no body. He takes care on no body and what he concern is only himselfs. This is not to say that Drover is selfish, but that is the personality that the surrounding had shaped on the Drover. Although the drover is a white man, he is friendly with the Aborigines due to his job, and therefore he shunned by many of the other whites in the territory. Consequently he needed to take care of himself and fight for his right in order to survive in the society.
However, things start to change after the arrival of Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman). The Drover did not live alone anymore. Lady Sarah Ashley travels to her husband's down under cattle ranch to finalize the sale of the rustic homestead to local Aussie cattle barons. The Drover is hired by Lady Sarah Ashley to help her drove her cattle across the Kuraman Dessert to the port of Darwin to sell the beef to the Australian army which is now preparing for a war with the
Japanese. The drover has shown his loving and caring personalities. As a leader of the band, he took good care of his member regard health condition and accommodation, but in fact he failed to do so. One of the members, the alcoholic accountant Kipling Flynn (Jack Thompson) is dead when he is stepped over by the stampeding cattle. The drover cried with his tears on his eye. These scene touch me because the Drover has shown the true feeling of a human. He love Flynn and he felt sad for his death. Moreover, there is an attraction between the Drover and Lady Sarah which can be considered as “love”. Along the journey with all levels of interference from nasty cattle thieves, scorched deserts and stampedes, they have a push-pull relationship. But finally, Drover fall in love with Lady Sarah.
However problem arises after the Drover success to drive the cattle across the dangerous “Never Never” desert. The Drover has different perspective regarding his relationship with Lady Sarah. As a drover, the Drover prefers to live alone. He is more comfortable out there with his horse and the cattle than he is with people. That is why someone like Lady Ashley presents quite a few problems for him. Lady Sarah thought that she has found her new life and want to stay together with the Drover. Sadly the drover refused to do. He leave the Faraway dawn to be a drover of the Australia Military Team. Lady Sarah is left aside with Nullah in the old place. Here, the Drover gives a bad image. He failed to face the truth that he has owned Lady Sarah and no more alone. After living alone for so many years, he still thought that he is his own man. Therefore he made a decision to leave Lady Sarah heartlessly, continue his destiny as a solitary man. For me, he is so irresponsible in handling his feel toward Lady Sarah and he is coward man who tries to hide behind the truth.
Moreover, his growing attachment to Nullah is totally different from what Lady Sarah think. Lady Sarah wanted to keep Nullah beside her in the Faraway Dawn and try to stop Nullah from doing walkabout with his grandfather, King George. Actually this is a way to perform a ceremonial coming-of-age for the ancestor of Nullah. In this issue, Lady Sarah is use some lame excuse that Nullah is still a child and is too dangerous for him to do the walkabout. On the other hand, the Drover is quite understanding in handling this issue. He thought that the walkabout is the best way that Nullah can do in order to grow into a true man and learn more things from King George. He respects the culture and tradition of the aboriginal native where each member must do the walkabout when they are old enough to do so. The Drover is strongly insisted with his idea and he started to argue which cause the breakup of the couple after that.
After that, Japanese army attack Australia. Drover, who had quarreled with Lady Sarah and gone droving apparently never to return, hears (mistakenly) that she has been killed in the bombing. He quickly returned to find but he didn’t managed. He felt very sad and regretted not to stay with Lady Sarah. Start from here, I start to fell that the Drover has change. He faces his true feeling toward Lady Sarah and begins to repair the problem that arised between them. However that is too late for him to meet Lady Sarah again. But the Drover does not depress but he started to look for Nullah. He finds out about Nullah’s abduction to Mission Island. At that time, the mission island is not safe as Mission Island is the first place attacked by the Japanese Army. The situation there is very dangerous and no one is allowed to go there. Drover who thinks he has lost Lady Sarah thought that he must save Nullah ehich is his only relative left other than Lady Sarah. A shock and brave decision, he sets out to rescue Nullah and the other children from the island using a sailboat. Here he show his love to Nullah and concern about his safety. This is what a person should do for their child. Without thinking of his own safety, he bravely save Nullah and other mixed-race children. I fell that the Drover has shown a good example to all of us that the power of love is incredible which help us to do something impossible and achieve our goal. Finaly, the Drover and his member make it safely back to Darwin.
Later, Drover and the children sail back into port at Darwin. To
What's a drover? The drover is a freelance Australian drover who makes his living steering thousands of heads of cattle across hundreds of miles of outback. The Drover is a solitary man. He used to live alone in his life of driving the cattle and horse. He is his own man. He doesn’t want to be beholden to anybody. He relies on no body. He takes care on no body and what he concern is only himselfs. This is not to say that Drover is selfish, but that is the personality that the surrounding had shaped on the Drover. Although the drover is a white man, he is friendly with the Aborigines due to his job, and therefore he shunned by many of the other whites in the territory. Consequently he needed to take care of himself and fight for his right in order to survive in the society.However, things start to change after the arrival of Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman). The Drover did not live alone anymore. Lady Sarah Ashley travels to her husband's down under cattle ranch to finalize the sale of the rustic homestead to local Aussie cattle barons. The Drover is hired by Lady Sarah Ashley to help her drove her cattle across the Kuraman Dessert to the port of Darwin to sell the beef to the Australian army which is now preparing for a war with the
Japanese. The drover has shown his loving and caring personalities. As a leader of the band, he took good care of his member regard health condition and accommodation, but in fact he failed to do so. One of the members, the alcoholic accountant Kipling Flynn (Jack Thompson) is dead when he is stepped over by the stampeding cattle. The drover cried with his tears on his eye. These scene touch me because the Drover has shown the true feeling of a human. He love Flynn and he felt sad for his death. Moreover, there is an attraction between the Drover and Lady Sarah which can be considered as “love”. Along the journey with all levels of interference from nasty cattle thieves, scorched deserts and stampedes, they have a push-pull relationship. But finally, Drover fall in love with Lady Sarah.However problem arises after the Drover success to drive the cattle across the dangerous “Never Never” desert. The Drover has different perspective regarding his relationship with Lady Sarah. As a drover, the Drover prefers to live alone. He is more comfortable out there with his horse and the cattle than he is with people. That is why someone like Lady Ashley presents quite a few problems for him. Lady Sarah thought that she has found her new life and want to stay together with the Drover. Sadly the drover refused to do. He leave the Faraway dawn to be a drover of the Australia Military Team. Lady Sarah is left aside with Nullah in the old place. Here, the Drover gives a bad image. He failed to face the truth that he has owned Lady Sarah and no more alone. After living alone for so many years, he still thought that he is his own man. Therefore he made a decision to leave Lady Sarah heartlessly, continue his destiny as a solitary man. For me, he is so irresponsible in handling his feel toward Lady Sarah and he is coward man who tries to hide behind the truth.
Moreover, his growing attachment to Nullah is totally different from what Lady Sarah think. Lady Sarah wanted to keep Nullah beside her in the Faraway Dawn and try to stop Nullah from doing walkabout with his grandfather, King George. Actually this is a way to perform a ceremonial coming-of-age for the ancestor of Nullah. In this issue, Lady Sarah is use some lame excuse that Nullah is still a child and is too dangerous for him to do the walkabout. On the other hand, the Drover is quite understanding in handling this issue. He thought that the walkabout is the best way that Nullah can do in order to grow into a true man and learn more things from King George. He respects the culture and tradition of the aboriginal native where each member must do the walkabout when they are old enough to do so. The Drover is strongly insisted with his idea and he started to argue which cause the breakup of the couple after that.After that, Japanese army attack Australia. Drover, who had quarreled with Lady Sarah and gone droving apparently never to return, hears (mistakenly) that she has been killed in the bombing. He quickly returned to find but he didn’t managed. He felt very sad and regretted not to stay with Lady Sarah. Start from here, I start to fell that the Drover has change. He faces his true feeling toward Lady Sarah and begins to repair the problem that arised between them. However that is too late for him to meet Lady Sarah again. But the Drover does not depress but he started to look for Nullah. He finds out about Nullah’s abduction to Mission Island. At that time, the mission island is not safe as Mission Island is the first place attacked by the Japanese Army. The situation there is very dangerous and no one is allowed to go there. Drover who thinks he has lost Lady Sarah thought that he must save Nullah ehich is his only relative left other than Lady Sarah. A shock and brave decision, he sets out to rescue Nullah and the other children from the island using a sailboat. Here he show his love to Nullah and concern about his safety. This is what a person should do for their child. Without thinking of his own safety, he bravely save Nullah and other mixed-race children. I fell that the Drover has shown a good example to all of us that the power of love is incredible which help us to do something impossible and achieve our goal. Finaly, the Drover and his member make it safely back to Darwin.
Later, Drover and the children sail back into port at Darwin. To
his surprise, he see Lady Sarah standing in front of him. She is still alive. Drover is very happy as he finally united with Lady Sarah and Nullah. He is not coward anymore. He accepts Lady Sarah as his family member and wanst to stay with her. He doesn’t want to separate with Lady Sarah anymore. He has changed, from a person who cares about himself only to a person who thinks of others.
In a nut shell, I think that the character “the Drover” is rarely a uniique person. He has both good and bad characteristic but at the end of the story, he became a better person than before. That is why I admire this character and found that this is the most interesting character in the movie “Australia”.
No comments:
Post a Comment