Fred Schepisi's The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, one of the most ‘savage’ film that has ever been made by director Fred Schepisi and also it is the first Australian feature films with a budget over a million dollars. Ever since its theatrical release it remains a notorious work and has made legendary by portrayals of terrible racially-propelled violations. Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is an Australian film based around a half-aborigine who experience the ill effects of racial discrimination goes on a savage homicide spree against whites. Adapted from Thomas Keneally’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith blew apart politically correct discussions of racial relations in Australia and provoked gatherings of people to mull over tough questions.

The story is set in New South Wales. It is told entirely in the ethical terms of the raw Australian outback of around 1900, and the racial dispositions in the film are solidly drawn from that period.

The themes of

Nonetheless, the French film critics took a particularly dim perspective of what they judged to be a misinterpretation in the depiction of Jimmie’s revenge. Jean Rochereau, in his review for La croix, dramitically entitled ‘Une Australie ensanglantee, contends that Schepisi accomplishes more violence to his subject than that inflicted by Jimmie upon his victims. Henri Chapier, another film critic from French seems to see the peak of Schepisi’s film as a condemnation of indigenous savagery, as opposed to as an explosive response to an intolerable level of extent of racism in Australian