Walkabout

Today we watched the film walkabout searches many issues and through imagery is able to successfully portray the artificial lifestyle associated with urban lifestyle. The director adds images of tall office buildings that look down on the insignificant people below. These tall buildings dominate each scene. The feature if brick walls adds a sense of separation as the people are separated for their environment a place were little beauty can be found.

Large masses of people march through the streets. Moving without a cause. The bland clothes of office workers enforces the theme of looniness and artificial lifestyle. The barriers created between people are huge. People walk around, robots. Even the relationship between the mother and the father is fake. Not a word or gesture is shared between the two and little love can be found between them. The people lack personality and not even a smirk can be seen. The life has been squeezed out of the people.

In grey and white clothing the students sit in their big school. Unable to be themselves they are left robots to the system. The same clothes, hair and expression on every child leaves little life in these children. The soldiers marching through the streets confirms the synthetic lifestyle of the city.

Large buildings cover nature and make everything look small and swallow anything and everything up. All food and material items come in plastic. Urban life squeezes the life out of nature.