Good morning/ afternoon, I’m Mihira and today I’ll be critiquing the 2012 indigenous film, “The Sapphires”. The movie is a beautifully filmed true story about four Aboriginal women who were chosen to perform for the soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War during 1968. “The Sapphires” is a comedy/musical film however their where many emotional scenes demonstrating how the indigenous population where dealing with many the hardship of being Indigenous at that time.
During the film ‘The Sapphires’, representations of indigenous people are created through stereotypes. According to Dave, The Sapphires' way of singing was thought to be too "bland”, following that, he began to instruct the girl group to sing in their "black" voice. The audience is positioned to see that indigenous people have a more ratchet voice when singing when that’s not the case. The main protagonists
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In particular, Gail, she is described to be, selfish and greedy but is later shown that she is actually just overprotective, like a “mama bear”. For instance, when Julie is appointed the lead singer Gail believed that Julie wasn’t good enough to fit the role even though Julie had the strongest voice. She also was being disrespectful to Kay like when she said, "Going out with a black man ain't going to make you any blacker." During most of the movie Kay had to deal with petty passive aggressive comments until she couldn’t stand it and they both ended up in a fight. In addition, she didn't want Julie to travel with them to Melbourne or Vietnam; some may believe that Gail was just doing this so she can be in the spotlight but instead she was doing this for Julies safety. The audience in a position to witness how Gail is portrayed as being egotistical and greedy, but in fact she was just trying to protect herself and her siblings. By the end of the movie you can sense character development in her too. This shows the