The film Walkabout, by director Nicolas Roeg illustrates humankinds disconnect from the natural world. Throughout the film there are various scenes that colorfully portray this disconnect. The children give us the biggest images due to the story being based around them and their struggle to survive in the Australian Outback.
There was one scene that truly demonstrated this theme. In this scene the children find an oasis. They see animals eating the fruit from the tree as well as drinking the water in the small pond. They begin to relax and get comfortable. They stay the night there and by morning all the food and water is gone. Shortly after, they meet the aborigine boy and ask him for water. He then simply sticks a branch in the ground of were the pond was and gets water. This scene showed the children’s disconnect from nature because they had no idea what to do. As soon as the easy way of getting necessities was gone, they panicked. The children did not see the plethora of ways to obtain food and water. Because of the comforts of modern society, they did not have the skills or the mindset like the aborigine boy has. In modern society, we do not have to hunt for our own food, causing us to not be able to see food that nature has provided for us.
In the beginning of the film the two children are shown swimming in a pool with ocean right behind …show more content…
As soon as they made it there the girl started to think about their appearance in society. She now cared about how their clothes looked and wanted to make sure that they were acting properly. This illustrates how society has made us more worried about how we look and act instead of focusing on the necessities. With the need to know survival skills being removed and replaced with convenience, when we are put into an unfamiliar or hard situation we tend to not succeed, especially when it comes to a situation that involves