The women live in squalor behind bars in an unknown wilderness, repeatedly raped by drunken male soldiers who treat them like their only source of amusement. The wife of one of the soldiers helps them to escape, which they do, and meet a "savage", or young Aboriginal woman. With remarkable ease they take to the bush like that's where they belong: away from the cold, hard "civilisation" of their ignorant male captors.
Oh, and they spend most of the time either naked or topless, which people still make a big deal out of, as if we don't live in a world where nakedness is available to us at a click of a button. And as if most of the women in the movie aren't much to look at anyway.
So it's easy to see that this is some kind of feminist parable. But it seems to lack a point. It's certainly not entertaining to watch. The beginning is murky and gruelling and I got the feeling the movie wasn't going to go anywhere. It did go somewhere, into simplistic, heavy handed parable mode. I just didn't get what it was trying to say.
It's also very poorly shot, and, typically for an exploitation movie (which is what this is, feminist claptrap notwithstanding) none of the characters are differentiated.
Oh, and they spend most of the time either naked or topless, which people still make a big deal out of, as if we don't live in a world where nakedness is available to us at a click of a button. And as if most of the women in the movie aren't much to look at anyway.
So it's easy to see that this is some kind of feminist parable. But it seems to lack a point. It's certainly not entertaining to watch. The beginning is murky and gruelling and I got the feeling the movie wasn't going to go anywhere. It did go somewhere, into simplistic, heavy handed parable mode. I just didn't get what it was trying to say.
It's also very poorly shot, and, typically for an exploitation movie (which is what this is, feminist claptrap notwithstanding) none of the characters are differentiated.