1977
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
106 min
CLEAR ALL
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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