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Title One Night the Moon
Copyright Title One Night the Moon
Released 2001
Production Year 1999
Director Rachel Perkins
Comments Jim Ryan's blatant racism is also accentuated by his fear that the Black Tracker’s knowledge of the land far exceeds any knowledge he possesses, and this gives way to doubt in the settler’s mind of his ownership of the land. This is illustrated in the song “This land is mine/This land is me” The film is only applied to two characters in depth, the Jim Ryan and Albert Yang, but these feeling of ambiguity felt by European settlers was widespread.





Synopsis The film "One Night the Moon" is a story about a farmer, that refuses the help of an Indigenous tracker and this contributes to his daughter’s death.

In 1932, a young girl (Emily Ryan) goes through her bedroom window in the middle of the night into outback Australia because of the entrancing moon. When her parents awake, there is no sign of the missing child. Jim and Rose Ryan spent the night looking for her, but cannot find her. The following day Jim Ryan asks the NSW police for help, however; their very best man is an indigenous tracker named Albert Yang. Jim Ryan refuses help from Albert insisting "-no blackfella is to set foot on my land." Jim gathers as many white men as he can, and systematically searches across the desolate land, all the while, Albert watches helplessly as they erase every track in the dust.

Some time later, while the missing child is still missing, Rose Ryan makes a decision to ask for Albert's help, without the knowledge of her husband. Albert and Rose find the girl dead in the hills and bring her body back home.

Albert's wife sings the funeral song, while their own child is missing as a result of the "Stolen Generation". Jim Ryan blames himself for his daughter's death and commits suicide.
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