Good films about Australian Aboriginals are rare and I love
The Last Wave. The mythology and 'Dreamtime' of the Aboriginals is truly fascinating and beautiful and this film captures the conflict of their beliefs against laws of Modern Society very well , I feel. Chamberlain is excellent and I admire Peter Weir style of filmmaking greatly.
I find the film quite disturbing. The constant rain and thunderstorms, Chamberlain's nightmares and the scene where the little girl says she saw Jesus and His Angels and says, "I love Jesus, mummy", all conjure up a particular feeling of impending doom that isn't found in other End-of-the-World films.
No one really knows how the Aboriginals got to Australia or from where or why they fled their original homeland. How long ago this happened is also sketchy. They may have been there for 80,000 years - perhaps longer. Being before the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 BCE - 8,000 BCE) it perhaps suggests a skill of navigation of the sea that was unknown to Man during this epoch. And what is the 'Last Wave'? What causes it? One theory is that global floods
do occur and that advanced marinal civilisations may have existed in the distant past - indeed, as far back as 80,000 years ago. Charles Hapgood, in the mind-blowing,
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (1966) after locating the now-famous and controversial Piri Re'is map of the world dating from sixteenth Century (the chronometer was not invented until 1735 - before this charting longitude to even an adequete degree was EXTREMELY difficult) that shows accurate cartography of Antarctica as it is
beneath the ice drew the conclusion that part of Antarctica was once ice-free and had a temperate climate that sustained life - Atlantis. This race would have progressed unmolested over tens of thousands of years, mile away from less-advanced cultures slowly developing technologies and theories of the Earth, sciences and belief systems totally alien to our understanding. Hapgood suggests - and Albert Einstein agreed with him - that the Earth's crust must have shifted suddenly with such unimaginable force that it moved Antarctica into the Polar Zone, putting it 'into the freezer' so to speak, but also creating obscenely violent typhoons on a global scale that no human had or has since experienced. This is what a Last Wave is. They occur periodically throughout the Earth's life. Will it happen again? Yes.
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