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Film Review – Samson and Delilah
Throughout the film there seems to be the fundamental message of a misrepresented and misunderstood culture. On the one hand they are depicted as a community capable of producing complex and beautiful artworks that represent their ancient culture, whilst on the other they are portrayed as lazy, drunken welfare bums. It is a film about emotional and physical survival, which explores the pretence that life is not always fair and can often be isolating.
Sampson and Delilah is an extremely confronting, yet honest depiction of a remote Indigenous Community in the Northern Territory of the Australian desert. It communicates the story of silent love between two indigenous teenagers and their evolving relationship. Sampson is a bored petrol-sniffing teenager, whilst Delilah is an extremely creative and talented young women trying to learn the traditional ways of her ancestors from her grandmother. Sadly Delilah also falls victim to bad choices and begins sniffing petrol. The change in her is well represented in the variance between her paintings when she is the happy and healthy loving granddaughter where her works are reminiscent or her grandmother’s methods, to when she is sniffing petrol. These works display a sombre, foreboding mood compared to her earlier paintings and reflect the confronting truth of where she is headed.
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