The sparkling truth about the Sapphires

Screen director, Wayne Blair, has shone light onto historical times to perceive the 1960’s for Indigenous people, to be much more glamorous than in actual fact. But have they missed a note when drawing what life was actually like? Ebony Coxall further explores the truth
The 2010 box office gem “the sapphires” is about 4 Aboriginal girls who, despite the racism and challenges they go through, touring Vietnam during the war to bring light into the lives of the solders.

What the stations actually looked like, the station represented in the movie.

It’s taught in schools and is well known that indigenous people were treated like slaves, forced to live in horrendous conditions and given only small …show more content…
While at the pub she blurts out “Just so you know, you’re standing on black fella land” so of the audience react shocked to this, but in real life- would someone actually say this? Surely you’d be too afraid that the white people would hurt you if you said something like this, full aware of what other things they did for less.
Although “The Sapphires” have in accurate representations of indigenous life, so areas are depicted colourfully. Ideologies represented in the movie include fear, racism, simulation and finding where you belong. There is a flashback to where Kay, the fairest of the girls, is taken away to live with a white family then later comes back and says “if you people worked as much as you fished, you’d be rich you know”- this links historically to the stolen generation which was happening at that time.

The Sapphires performing for their family when they were young
Movie critics say that they were “blown away by sparkling the performance”, this is true, the Sapphires did perform amazingly and everyone sung along to their songs. But keeping in mind they were performing during a war so their performance wouldn’t have been so