Backbencher

Walkabout features the same guy from Rabbit Proof Fence, although he's a teenage kid in this movie, and says a lot more in it, albeit the only English word he says is "water." I didn't understand the beginning of the movie at all, a dad and his 2 children drive out to the middle of the bush, and with no gasoline, decide to have a picnic. The younger boy runs around playing with his dad, shooting at him with a squirt gun, when the dad whips out a real gun and starts shooting it at the boy. The girl goes and grabs the boy and gets some cover, while the dad gets out a can of gas and lights the car on fire, before shooting himself in the head. WTF. I was so incredibly confused, but whatever hah. The two wander around the desert for a while, before almost dying of dehydration. They come across a watering hole where they "hole up" for a while before they realize they have no idea where they are or how to survive. Luckily for them, an aborigine boy finds them and gets them water from the ground. They decide to follow him, even though he speaks zero english, and the movie does a great job of showing scenery, wildlife and aborigine hunting action. They wander around for quite some time, growing fond of the aborigine boy, and he paints them up and shows them all kinds of things. They show him their things and listen to the radio constantly, which he finds interesting. There's a very strange and awkward sexual tension throughout the whole time they're with him between the aborigine boy and the girl. There's also a scene showing some weather scientists, only one of them being female, and the male ones gawking at every move she makes. Strange. Eventually they stumble across an abandoned farm, and the small boy and aborigine boy find a paved highway. The girl wanders around the house for a bit, and the boy collects trees for some reason. The aborigine boy is wrastling with a buffalo/bull of some kind, and some hunters cruise past him shooting up all the other bulls in the area. The aborigine boy is obviously saddened by this, and lays out with a big pile of bones, painted up like a skeleton himself. The girl, wandering through the house, is confronted by the aborigine boy, who is now dancing around with some plants in his hands, and she gets a little freaked out by him. She tells her little brother they're going to go off alone tomorrow after hearing there's a road nearby. The aborigine boy dances out there all night, and in the morning the little brother shows his sister that he's gone, and leads her to a tree, where the aborigine boy is hanging in like a crucifix pose. They head down the road and wind up at a town where a mean man tells them where they can stay until they find a way back. They play around with some old machinery for a while and it flashes forward to the girl, and presumably her boyfriend, in a high rise in the city, where she has memories of the time she spent in the bush with the aborigine boy.

This movie had one hell of a lot of random nudity. Not sex scenes or anything, just a lot of random naked. I'm kind of glad I watched it by myself cause that may have been strange sitting there with someone else during all of that. It was an ok movie to watch, lots of great scenery and animals (and bugs, ew.). The story seemed to be filled with holes though, most notably the beginning. I don't know what the hell was going on there, but it was entertaining to see anyways. I honestly just thought the dad was playing, carelessly playing, but you know, not directly trying to shoot his son. Some people might not like the scenes where the aborigine boy is killing animals left and right either, but I just assume that they didn't really kill animals.