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Sep 29, 2017MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of the greatest movies of all time. WALKABOUT deals with the big themes: civilization vs. nature; woman vs. man; eros vs. thanatos. I saw this movie when it was first released. I was six or seven years old, the age of the little brother in the film. My parents took me and my sisters to the theater with them. I can still remember what it felt like to see it. It was as if the world had been flung wide open and the future was intersecting with the present. I realize now that WALKABOUT was an evanescent point in history when the cultural-revolutionary wave of the 1960s slammed into the mass consumer market. For a brief period of time you had Hollywood investing in auteurs like Roeg and screening their works all across the United States. If you want to be astonished by pure athleticism, check out David Gulpilil's performance. If you want to be stunned by pure beauty/sensuality, behold teenage Jenny Agutter's performance. A sexier couple has never appeared on film!