Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian Historical Drama film.

It is the 1930s. The British/Australian government has rounded up children of Australian aborigines. They will take care of them as if they were orphans, and as a bonus, they intend to wipe out the Australian aborigine culture in the process. If no one passes it down, it'll go away.

Our protagonists are three "half-caste" Aborigine girls, 14-year-old Molly, 10-year-old Gracie, and 8-year-old Daisy in one of the homes the British/Australian government has put aborigine children in. It is on the opposite coast of the country from their home. Molly leads the other girls in an escape and they try to make their way home, following the "rabbit-proof" fence that runs all the way across Australia to protect the cattle grazing lands from the rabbits.

Inspired By a true story, and based on the book written by the real Molly's daughter.

Tropes used in Rabbit-Proof Fence include:

• Anvilicious
  • Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped
• Bittersweet Ending
• Break the Cutie:All of them.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance
• Determinator: Can you imagine what it would take to be 13-ish and walk 1,500 miles through the Australian Outback?
• Disappeared Dad: The children's fathers are mentioned but is nowhere to be found in this film.
• Fridge Horror: If the girls had stayed at Moor River, they might have met a similar fate as Mavis had.
  • Even worse, this might have happened to Gracie after she was recaptured.
• Historical Fiction
• I Lied: A man tells Gracie that her mother is in Miluna. Gracie believes him. Things don't end well for her.
  • This could have been unintentionally, as it was a rumor Mr. Neville spread. The man could have believed it was true...
• Inspired By
• It Got Worse: The epilogue. That is all.
• Mama Bear: Molly and Daisy's mother scares Briggs off at the end by simply walking towards him with a spear.
• Opening Narration
• Promotion to Parent: Happens to Molly
• Stoic Woobie: Moodo. Not only does he have to watch his own daughter become a servant, but he also can never go home.
• Team Mom: Molly
  • Nina (The oldest of the girls at Moore River) might count as one for the Moore River children.
• There's No Place Like Home: And how.
• Traumatic Haircut: Happens to Olive after she's brought back to Moor River.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Molly in spades.
• You Are Not Alone
• You Can't Go Home Again: Moodoo technically could, but he won't leave his daughter.