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How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission in Arnhem Land in the 1930s, blends stories (and languages) from Indigenous Nations across the region.
It is a fictionalised story, inspired, says director Stephen Maxwell Johnson, by “true history”.
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At times, the film resembles a shoot-em-up Western.
But it gets a lot right.
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