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The Tracker
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0736899059224
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Art Mattan
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Art Mattan
MPN: 86905
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Art Mattan
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Art Mattan
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Featuring a mesmerizing and fearless performance from David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence), THE TRACKER is at once a mystery, an adventure, and a pointed commentary on the atrocities committed against the Aborigines. In 1922, an Aboriginal tracker leads two mounted policeman and a civilian through the Australian Outback on the hunt for a black fugitive who is charged with killing a white woman. The group struggles through extremely rugged terrain inhabited by hostile aborigines, wild animals, and poisonous reptiles. Though treated as a virtual slave by the white men leading the search, it becomes clear that the Tracker has his own agenda. Through massacre and murder the party falls into disarray, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 3:10 to the Outback
Somebody needs to speak up in opposition to all the five star reviews this film is getting and I guess it will have to be me. This chase film makes about as little sense as the recent version of "3:10 to Yuma." The posse acts in ways that are downright absurd and that spoils the whole movie. For example, the first time a spear gets thrown at them they shoot back wildly but make no attempt to chase the culprit, who can't be very far away. OK, maybe this could happen. But when the next couple of ... Read More
Rating:  - The Tracker ~ The Best
I am a seasoned mantracker with Law Enforcement & SAR. I am always skeptical of movies depicting mantrackers, and how they are mostly "Hollywoodized". However,from the very first frame of this movie it had captured my attention, the way the tracker moved along his line of sign, I knew it was going to be a great movie. It truly is a great movie about a Tracker and how lonely, adventurous and dangerous following a track can be. There is a very deep and meaningful story being told that goes beyond ... Read More
Rating: - The many tracks to justice
When Philip Noyce directed "Rabbit-proof Fence" - a film about Aborigine children escaping white captivity - he hired David Gulpilil in the role of the "black tracker". With forty thousand years of experience in the Australian bush under their belts [sic?], the Aborigines are trackers without peer. The European invaders quickly learned to use them in tracing missing children, criminals and other tasks. In the "Special Features" of "Rabbit-proof Fence", Noyce comments on his sudden awareness that Gulpilil ... Read More
Rating: - Illuminating trek through the Australian outback
Rolf de Heer's outstanding film, "The Tracker" is a visually stunning odyssey through the remote, unforgiving Australian bush and liberally filled with social commentary.
The year is 1922 and a band of three mounted policeman is being lead by an aboriginal known as The Tracker, played by David Gulpilil. They are following another native Australian accused of murdering a white woman. The band is lead by The Fanatic played by Gary Sweet, a murderous bigoted Australian, who thinks of native Aboriginals ... Read More
Rating: - Clash in Australia: Aborigine and White
It's impossible not to be a David Gulpilil fan...he can do no wrong in any film. He exudes an aboriginal dignity in the same way that Toshire Mifune exudes a samurai dignity. This is a film about his assignment as a tracker hired to find an Aborigine criminal. The film examines who is the criminal and who is the innocent...who has standing in the bush wilderness and who does not. A very interesting film and well worth purchasing.
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