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The Water Diviner Analysis

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Pravin Baliah’s film of choice for the Australian film board

Film: The Water Diviner

Good morning fellow members of the Australian Film Board.

As you know we are looking for a film to be an outstanding representation of the social values, beliefs and/or events that contribute or have contributed to the cultural identity of our country.

As a member of the Board, I have viewed several excellent Australian films. The film I have chosen is ‘The Water Diviner.’ It is about one of the ordinary Australian bloke with a broken heart relying on a weathered charm and never-say-die spirit to fight against impossible odds. The film director is Russell Crowe. It was released on December 26 of 2014. The film takes place in Turkey after World War …show more content…

Typically, this is adversity, environmental hardships and lack of personal recognition. Aussie battler is a term of respect and endearment intended to empower and recognise those who feel as though they exist at the bottom of society. This term has seen recently used in mainstream politics to describe a demographic section of the Australian people”. In the film one could see this in multiple places as in the case of 3 brothers even though they are unimportant and insignificant to the overall war but still the dad and some of the other characters cared about them to go through thousands of dead bodies to find them. Dad went into so much trouble by travelling from Australia to Turkey and asked for permission to travel to Gallipoli but it was denied to him. Hence, he paid a fisherman to get him to Gallipoli on boat. When he reached there, he asked other Australian and Turkey soldiers to help him to find his three sons’ bodies but nobody was interested. One soldier asked why should anyone waste their time to look for an insignificant person’s son. Then another soldier said that he was the only father who came looking for his sons! Therefore everyone joined in help finding the

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