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The Film File
The new Australian movie "The Proposition" begins with photographs from the late nineteenth century. Here are the stubborn settlers, in stiff collars or lace dresses, bent on transplanting British or Irish values to an unyielding soil. Here, too, are the indigenous people, their expressions harder to read, caught between defiance and resignation. Next come the charred remains of a homestead, with the words "Scene of the Hopkins Outrage" inked below in white; and there, plucked fresh from the past, is our story.
The Hopkins family, including a pregnant mother, has been slaughtered by the Burns gang, of abominable ...