Who doesn't remember the 1976 movie Storm Boy, based on a children's book by Colin Thiele, about a boy and his pelican? Storm Boy's real name in the film is Mike — the moniker "Storm Boy" was given to him by Fingerbone Bill, played by David Gulpilil, an Aboriginal man who becomes his friend.
The same David Gulpilil now stars in Charlie's Country as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. The government's intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
The movie will be released in July and I can't wait to see it.
