Some films are worth seeing twice
I went and saw Son of a lion on Saturday and I loved it. It’s a simple story set in the north west frontier of Pakistan, where the main character Niaz, an 11 year old boy, dreams of going to school, instead of making guns like his father. No actors were used in this film, it was all just everyday people. The humour is fantastic, and the story is really an ethographic insight. The landscape is beautiful and definatly needs to be seen on the full screen.
I have also been thinking about this next assignment, I think it would be interesting to look at Indigenous health statistics compared with the rest of australia over a certain period of time, say the last 20 years. I have worked and lived in remote aboriginal communities and I am very interested in this area. I have started looking for statistics and hope that I can find the relevant data without to much difficulty.
