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Actually, the majority of 'The Year of Living Dangerously' takes place in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, which is a bit further west than the map included, near the northwest tip of the island of Java, the eastern portion of which is indicated. The title comes from a speech made by Indonesian President Sukarno when declaring Indonesia's independence in 1964; the film is set during the time leading up to an attempted coup in 1965, and reflects those turbulent times. Since the coup had led to General Suharto effectively taking control of the country, and deposing Sukarno in 1967, this 1982 movie was banned in Indonesia until after Suharto had in turn been forced from office in 1998. Needless to say, the movie was not allowed to film in Indonesia, so most filming actually took place in the Philippines.

The film is usually described as a romantic drama, and while there is a romance between Guy (Mel Gibson) and Jill (Sigourney Weaver), the relationship between the Australian journalist and the Australian-Chinese dwarf photojournalist Billy (Linda Hunt) is more central to the film's exploration of trust and betrayal on multiple levels. Linda Hunt won an Oscar (and a truckload of other awards) as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Billy.

This 1943 black-and-white film is about the 1941 Japanese invasion of the Philippines, during which American troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur had retreated to the Bataan peninsula on the island of Luzon. They were finally defeated in April of 1942, and the surrendering men (American and Filipino) were forced to march over 100 km north to a POW camp in the town of Capas, a journey that was to become known as the Bataan Death March due to the large number of casualties.

'Bataan' was filmed during the aftermath of the defeat, and well before the Battle to Retake Bataan in the early months of 1945. It follows the actions of a group of soldiers trying to prevent the Japanese approach by blowing up a crucial bridge. They destroy it three times (with the Japanese repeatedly repairing it) before they all die heroic deaths. As the last of them (Sergeant Bill Dane, played by Robert Taylor) is desperately firing at the approaching enemy (directly into the camera lens), the end card for the film appears, reading, "So fought the heroes of Bataan, Their sacrifice made possible our victories in the Coral and Bismarck Seas, at Midway, on New Guinea and Guadalcanal. Their spirit will lead us back to Bataan!"

The title of this 2006 documentary evokes the proverbial saying that 'Time and tide wait for no man' (or variants thereon) which was first used in (archaic) English in 1225, in the writings of St Marher. It brings to mind the old story of Canute attempting to order the tide not to flow in and cover the spot where he was seated - an incident which is either told to show how arrogant he was about his power, or to show how realistic he was as he demonstrated to sycophantic courtiers that not even he could affect the tides.

For the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, stopping the rise of the tides is literally a matter of survival. However, climate change is not the only threat that concerns the Pasifika New Zealanders responsible for the film. Julie Bayer and Josh Salzman actually got their first inspiration from reading about their native country turning the internet domain .tv into a commercial venture. Reflecting on how traditional culture was being changed by exposure to Western culture, the documentary explores both cultural and physical threats to Tuvaluan lifestyle and values.

While the exact island location of this 1958 film adaptation of a stage musical, which was itself based on a collection of short stories by James A. Michener, is not explicitly stated, there are pointers to a location (in the area of French control) somewhere in the vicinity of Vanuatu.

The plot is hardly worth describing, as it is really an exploration of prejudice and tolerance driven along by a couple of romances, set in World War II. Mitzi Gaynor played Nellie Forbush, who overcame her reluctance to become involved with the French planter Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi) because he was the widowed father of children from an earlier relationship with a Polynesian woman. Lt Joe Cable (John Kerr) is not so fortunate: he decides to stay in the Pacific to live with the Polynesian woman with whom he has fallen in love (but who he feels will never be accepted by his family), but dies in the course of a crucial intelligence mission.

This 1994 look at the Heke family (a multi-generational Māori family living in Auckland, New Zealand) and their struggles with the impact that European colonisation has had on their lives is not easy viewing. Many of their problems stem immediately from Jake's alcoholism, both because his drinking takes much of the family's small income from unemployment benefits and because it fuels aggressive acts of violence, including against his wife Beth. Their five children are not untouched by the familial anger and violence: Nig joins a gang, Boogie is sent to a foster home, and Grace hangs herself after being raped by her father's friend. When Jake is forced to accept that his friend was responsible (having previously thought his daughter was just making up rebellious teenage stories), the final disintegration occurs, as Beth returns with the two youngest children to the small village in which she had been raised, to be supported by her family there.

Following both commercial and critical success, the film produced a sequel, 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?' based on the second book of Alan Duff's trilogy about the Heke family. More specifically, it follows Jake's life as he tries to keep his children from ending up in the same mess as his life has become. Once again, Temuera Morrison provided a compelling performance of a man whose demons often interfere with his intentions. Outside of New Zealand, Morrison is probably best known for his performance as Jango (and Boba) Fett in the 'Star Wars' franchise.

Based on a 1987 novel of the same name, this 1992 film follows the struggle of Paikea Apirana to become the leader of her village. Tradition held that the chief must be the first-born son in a family which had direct patrilineal descent from Paikea, known as the Whale Rider because he was said to have ridden a whale from the ancestral Polynesian home to Whangara. That would have been Pai's twin brother, except he died (along with his mother) during the birth.

When her father moves to Germany, Pai remains in Whangara with her paternal grandfather, Koro, who establishes a training school to train the local boys to prepare one of them to be suitable to be designated the next leader. Pai secretly joins in, and becomes the only one to succeed in the task of finding a whale's tooth that has been thrown into the sea. This task is the one that was designed to determine the new leader, and when she successfully rides a beached whale back to sea and frees the entire pod, Koro is informed that she had earlier found the rei puta. He finally agrees that she is the appropriate person to be designated as the next chief of the village.

Keisha Castle-Hughes, who made her film debut portraying the 12-year-old Pai, became the youngest nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress, at the age of 13.

'Heavenly Creatures' is a 1994 biographical drama based on two teenage girls who conspired in 1954 to kill the mother of one of them, to avoid being separated from each other. Directed by Peter Jackson, the film saw Kate Winslet make her debut as Juliet, while Melanie Lynskey also debuted as Pauline. (The story as told here is from the movie, without referencing the accuracy with which actual facts were portrayed.)

Juliet and Pauline met when Juliet transferred into the school where Pauline was already enrolled, and the two quickly became close friends, bonding over a shared history of childhood illnesses. They spend their time together engaging in a variety of creative activities, including the development of a fantasy kingdom in which they set most of their writings, and in which they develop their own fantasy personas. It is a world where they are safe, and where they have the power to remove any unpleasantness, which becomes increasingly real to them.

When Juliet's parents plan to divorce and send her to live with relatives in South Africa, the girls become increasingly distressed at the prospective separation, and make a series of unsuccessful plans, ultimately deciding they will need to get Pauline's mother out of the way so that Pauline will be allowed to go live with Juliet. The film ends with the premeditated murder in a Christchurch park, followed by written text about their arrest and conviction.

The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Screenplay, but did not win. However, it garnered nine wins at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards. It is also often cited as the film that helped Peter Jackson move from being seen as a horror-comedy director into the cinematic mainstream.

Hanging Rock is a prominent feature about 70 km northwest of the centre of Melbourne. In 1900, a group of schoolgirls went on a Valentine's Day expedition there, according to the story first recounted in Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel, and strange events ensued. In 1975 Peter Weir adapted it to film, with location filming taking advantage of the indisputable atmosphere of the formation, an atmosphere which extends itself back to the girls' school in the following days.

American audiences, on the whole, found 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' unsatisfactory due to the fact that the mystery remained unsolved. Australians, on the other hand, regularly include it in lists of the best Australian films. In his review of the film, Roger Ebert commented that it "employs two of the hallmarks of modern Australian films: beautiful cinematography and stories about the chasm between settlers from Europe and the mysteries of their ancient new home".

Both the 1976 adaptation of Colin Thiele's story about a young boy, living on the coast of Coorong National Park with his reclusive father, and the 2019 remake, were filmed on location on the coast southeast of Adelaide, Australia. The first version features David Gulpilil as Fingerbone Bill, the Aboriginal man who nicknames Mike 'Storm Boy', and involves him in the task of raising three orphaned pelicans. When the pelicans are released into the wild at the insistence of Mike's father, one of them returns, and Mr Percival (as he was named) and Mike form a deep bond. When duck hunters kill the bird, it is Fingerbone who helps him come to grips with the natural events of life and death, before he is sent to boarding school.

There were three pelicans used for Mr Percival; one of them lived as an attraction at Adelaide's Marineland until 1988, then at Adelaide Zoo until his death in 2009. This was the second starring role for David Gulpilil, following his debut in 1971's 'Walkabout', and further consolidated his status as one of Australia's preeminent actors. Greg Rowe, who was 12 at the time of the film's release, continued acting for another six years. When he was interviewed in 2016 (while living in Toronto) about his memories of the film, he described his fondest memories of what had become a long-distant part of his life as being the warmth and generosity of David Gulpilil.

As is suggested by the placement of the number for this film in the middle of the enormous state of Western Australia, 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' follows three young girls as they use the fence to guide them in their journey from an Aboriginal resettlement camp north of Perth back to their families in the Pilbara. The journey, nearly 1,000 miles, took over two months, during which time they had to avoid capture by the official Protector of Western Australian Aborigines, A. O. Neville, who was assisted by a local tracker (played by David Gulpilil). One of them is betrayed and recaptured; the other two make it home, and are taken to hide in the desert by their mother and grandmother until the chase is abandoned.

The 2002 movie is based on Doris Pilkington Garimara's 1996 book 'Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence', itself loosely based on the lives of her mother, her aunt and their cousin. Sadly, their stories were far from unique, and the film serves as a testimonial to the extensive damage done to the children of the 'Stolen Generations', who were removed from their families and trained to undertake such useful roles in the European-based society as servants and gardeners. This practice was (on the part of some) part of an intentional process of integrating Aborigines into European society by destroying their cultural links to their land. It was also hoped that increased mixing with Europeans would lead to more mixed marriages, and the eventual extermination of Aboriginal society. Removal of children (especially those with one 'white' parent) from their families for these purposes was official government policy from 1905 until 1967; in the guise of social service interventions to protect children and give them a better start in life through foster care placements, it has continued into the 21st century.