pub-21

Whilst Occupation: Native is worth watching as I found it entertaining being a 70yo, 3rd generation Australian. In my life time I have observed this type of so called "Truth Telling" grow from a little thing to the big thing it is now!

A few bleeding hearts started out in the early 1900's to sway a few city dwelling Aboriginals, to stand up for what were some well deserved rights in a changing world. Over the next 70 years having grown in size & strength the movement now includes some remote area aborigines but also includes many that have less than 2% aboriginal ancestry. There are also many now identifying as Aboriginal that have no Aborigine ancestry at all, some estimate these so called "Fake Aborigines" to be between 25% to 33%, this is wrong.

What is also wrong is the narrative that this show presents as being the truth. Whenever the first humanoid came to this continent remains unknown, the claim that over 3% of the population can trace their ancestors entry to this land some 70~80 thousand years ago is illogical. Modern DNA tells us that human entry into Australia prior to 1000 years ago was in at least 3 waves and possibly 15 or more.

This would indicate that many of the current 3% of the population also had ancestors who were invaders who conquered the land and were also guilty of genocide.

There is no doubt all homo sapiens on this planet are distant descendants of the Great Ape so the sooner we ALL accept we're all equal regardless of race colour or creed and live life without racism and bigotry, the better.

This along with so many titles here on IMDB is over rated. If it's not the interested parties doing the abnormally hight star count it's the ignorant, as is the case with True Colours.

As mentioned by other reviewers this mini series is rather slow and drawn out, with a very ordinary ending. It does have some great scenery and gives the viewer a good sample of central Australia. As for the all other aspects film production it rates on par with the (probably) limited budget. Some of the acting is great but mostly it is atrocious.

Why I mention ignorance is much of this story is completely unrealistic and viewers are yet again subjected to the bias interpretation the SBS/NITV & ABC (Australian publicly funded broadcasters). I don't speak Aboriginal but I'm pretty some of the actors that use it don't speak it either, they couldn't even get the aboriginal version of English done well.

Over all not a fan, I wouldn't re-watch but if you like Aussie productions as much as I do give a go..... and don't believe the current 7.1 IMDB star rating.

I am absolutely lost as to why anyone could plausibly think that this would work as a film.

Every aspect of "Girls' Night Out" is BAD, with the exception being the camera work. The script is atrocious, the acting is poor, the directing is amateurish, even the sets are rubbish.

I recommend that if you start watching this with the idea of "Giving it a go" turn if off as soon as you have second thoughts as it doesn't get any better. Better still adhere to my title and AVOID.

Obviously done on minimal budget, which I understand but rest assured this will be ranked as one the worst movies ever made in Australia, if not the world!