In a Savage Land
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DVD: Region Code 1Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Movie Reviews of In a Savage Land
Movie Review: interesting if somewhat muddled in its effect
Summary: 3 Stars
In spite of this being an Australian film, it is not depressing. Neither of course is it a drama, or a comedy, or whatever. It's a chronical. But since rather startling things happen every few minutes, this is not a dull film.
The point seems to be to show that Christian missionaries, government officials and, yes, anthropologists destroyed some primitive cultures, like the Trobrian Islanders. The film is even rather honest about the natives. They are not portrayed as faultless and good in every way. There is plenty of semi-nudity, including many barebreasted teenage girls. The casting of all three major roles is good and appropriate.
On the other hand, most of the movie is filmed with an orange filter--to give the appearance of the old 1920s anthropological photographs, the director says in an interview. Why didn't he shoot it at 18 fps too, so it would look like a period flick? Assinine!
Also, there is a blank spot in the story. The main character, Evelyn, leaves the Trobrians and goes to New Guinea where she stays with some really savage people, head-hunters, etc. And we are not told what happens there. The last we see of her, the natives are stealing everything she has, including her typewriter and she is being knocked down with said typewriter by the chief who is stealing it. When we see her again, three months later, she is limping badly and appears to be in a psychotic state (although I doubt if the filmmaker would recognize a psychotic state if he saw one). Just what the filmmaker intended us to guess had happened is not clear, but this kind of dodging is simply cowardly filmmaking.
Still, the film ends relatively happily considering that it's an Australian film.
Bottom line: worth seeing.
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