This is what war is like, sometimes

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2005)

I was emotionally destroyed by it, so to speak, and it was worth it.
I think others' enjoyment will be increased by knowing what it all meant, originally. H. G. Wells wrote this book this is based on to show the British what their extermination of the Tasmanians might feel like, from the Tasmanian perspective. They had their world, then one day, strange-looking people came, riding ships and using technology the Tasmanians had never dreamed of, settled in, and the extermination began. That wasn't the only extermination program we've had on planet Earth, either.
This is what it must feel like. Random violence; some lucky survivors, or not so lucky; the victims perhaps never understanding why their attackers are so vicious, and every day, desperation and terror.
For this reason, this was the scariest movie I've ever seen. Ghosts and bug-eyed monsters don't exist, I'd say, but (human) invaders do, and sometimes they do things this brutal.
Don't bring the kids. I kept noting the reactions of Rachel, the little girl -- a great actress, given age-appropriate lines, and she was great at looking and sounding terrified -- and wondering if the child actress is going to be traumatized.