Samson & Delilah Revisited

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Jacinta Bailey

Abstract

Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009) is an unnerving and brutal portrayal of a rural Australian reality; one that we can no longer simply ignore.

Amidst the governments failing targets to ‘close the gap’ for Aboriginal Australians, Thornton’s 2009 film has a newfangled relevance within public consciousness. Samson and Delilah is much more than an adolescent romance; it is a stark contrast of Australian pride and failures, a bleak and truthful demonstration of where systematic government failure has led, and, a simultaneous celebration of the survival and resilience of the Aboriginal peoples.

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Bailey, J. (2018). Samson & Delilah Revisited. NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 2(1), 68-71. https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1476
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