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Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall. It centres on two white schoolchildren who are left to fend for themselves in the Australian Outback and who come across a teenage Aboriginal boy who helps them to survive.
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Few landscapes evoke the tension between civilisation and wilderness as starkly as the Australian Outback—a vast, sun-scorched theatre where European modernity collides with ancient Indigenous traditions. It is this dichotomy that Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 film *Walkabout* interrogates, weaving a haunting allegory of cultural dislocation, survival, and the myth of the “noble savage.” Hailed as a landmark of Australian cin…More
