Jimmy Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith is a film about a young half-caste aborigine who is exploited and turned away from both the aboriginal and white communities.

Jimmy Blacksmiths character is one that tries hard for acceptance into white society and this is viewed throughout the film, as he works hard for white farmers doing laboring earning the income of a Blackman. Jimmy Blacksmiths battle for acceptance into white society lead him along a road of hate, injustice and prejudice that he faced trying to fit into society, inevitably leading the violent acts against the white people in his life. Australian society in 1901 towards aboriginal people was a society that was extremely prejudice and violent. The scene of Jimmy Blacksmith was set around this time as it captured the lifestyle of Australian people and used the Australian outback to reveal the times of Australian society in the younger years.

Jimmy Blacksmiths declaration of war against the white population but more importantly the former employers of Jimmy was inevitable as the years of hate, torment and miss treating built up inside of Jimmy Blacksmith and ultimately l

Racism in the 1900’s was extreme and violent as the persecution of blacks was seen as ok in the white society. Through the character of Jimmy Blacksmith the judgment and persecution that he had faced inevitably forced him to take on his own form of revenge against the white people that he had dealt with in his life. The way that the film shows this was very intense graphic and straight to the point. The way the camera moves around, with the sounds and lighting to give a horrific scene on the mass murdering of the wives and daughters of his previous employers. The way that the film shows Jimmy and his brother running through the bush land focuses on them as being a “part” of land and running effortlessly and comfortably across the Australian landscape leaving minimal evidence of their tracks, whereas when the scene changes to the farmers hunting down Jimmy the motion, speed and sound somewhat changes into that of a confused and disoriented group gaining no ground in the battle to catch Jimmy.

White Australians at the turn of the century were very much against indigenous people and this was portrayed throughout the film by the ways in which the whites acted towards the aboriginal people. This was visually seen by the camera angles and techniques used. The scenes of Jimmy working in the rain digging massive holes with only a pick and building wooden fences really show us how the white farmers trea

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