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When a security operation overseen by Travis goes bloodily awry, leading to the massacre of most of Dharrpa’s tribe, orphaned child Gutjuk (Guruwuk Mununggurr) is taken into care by a local mission, while Travis leaves the force in protest at his superiors’ intent to cover up the atrocity.After the lulling beauty of the opening minutes, the shootout sequence is genuinely jolting, shot and cut with its own kind of frank, relentless brutality: It’s effective, though not the last time “High Ground” will stage such a scene of horror in impassively bright, clear daylight. Chris Anastassiades’ script is evidently at pains to give its Aboriginal characters a greater share of its perspective than in certain past portrayals of this historical era, though it’s less bracingly revisionist than such films as Warwick Thornton’s “Sweet Country.”The Northern Territory tourist board will certainly be pleased with a film that doesn’t dim the region’s ravishing natural beauty at any turn, even when its lavish greenery is sprayed with the blood of conflict. After his superiors insist on burying the truth Travis leaves in disgust, only to be forced back twelve years later to hunt down Baywara, an Aboriginal warrior whose attacks on new-settlers are causing havoc. Covering a violent chapter of colonial history, Stephen Maxwell Johnson's Australian western excavates ugly truths beneath lush lensing.Given how “High Ground” fits into Australia’s ongoing cultural reckoning with its violent colonial legacy, this Berlinale premiere is guaranteed a high domestic profile — though its mostly classical genre adherence, plus the presence of Simon Baker as the most morally upright of the story’s white settlers, ensures it will play universally. A chronicle of one woman's lifelong struggle with her faith. In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle. When Travis recruits mission-raised Gutjuk, the only known massacre-survivor as his Tracker, the truth of the past is revealed and Travis becomes the hunted.It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground Cast.
Indeed, what’s most surprising about “High Ground” is how sturdily low-key it remains for a film with such a rampingly high body count, while even star attraction Baker — in a nominally heroic role — keeps things quietly stoic.As the film proceeds sternly into its third act, it may feel as if certain violent setpieces have been more or less restaged several times, perhaps at some cost to standard notions of mounting tension. Accompanied by a soundtrack of feverishly layered birdsong and insect hum — there’s no score, just nature’s bustling soundtrack — it may seem an almost blandly picturesque opening shot, thought it aptly foregrounds a landscape that will outlast the ensuing fights over it.A 1919-set prologue introduces Travis (Baker), an independent-minded policeman more sympathetic than most of colleagues to the rights of the Aboriginal population, led by tribe elder Dharrpa (real-life Yolngu ceremonial leader Witiyana Marika), with whom they tensely share the land.

Find out more about the cast of the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie "Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground," starring Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Crystal Lowe and Geoff Gustafson. Running time: 104 MIN.

Read Next: AMC, Regal Reopening California Movie Theaters in San Diego Movies. High Ground (2020) Plot. Needless to say, the white men can bury such a crime, but it won’t lie down: 12 years later, the region is rocked by a spate of vengeful attacks on settlers by much-feared Baywarra (Sean Mununggurr), a descendant of Dharrpa. Directed by Vera Farmiga. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. When Travis, now a lone-wolf bounty hunter, is enlisted by his former police chief (Jack Thompson) to hunt down Baywarra, he in turn recruits the now-grown Gutjuk (now played by Jacob Junior Nayinggul) as his tracker.

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