Hi people,
I just watched Ned Kelly on my notebook and it was quite a moving film...
I just didn't 'get' one scene because it was so dark on my notebook, it was the scene with the horse and the blood, in the middle of the movie. What was that all about? Could someone explain it to me?
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I think out of desperation of hunger...Ned killed the horse because they needed to eat. To what looked like they were drinking it's blood, right after he had stabbed the horse. Which truly showed they wanted food bad.
You jump, I jump remember? I can't turn away without knowing you'll be alright <3
Oh boy... they must have been very hungry...I get it now, thanks for explaining!
Cheers,
Ally
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Just before that scene, they had come across the offal poisoned creek, so I think the desperation was more immediate due to actual thirst then hunger. Starvation death is measured in weeks to months, dehydration death is measured in days...
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Spot on, mxlflx.
Shows what they've been reduced to.
It was blood they wanted from the horse, not meet, it was a scene before at the river when they found two dead boars sign that the water was poisoned. The scene is a bit unreal, they could not drink that and solve the problem, the blood is salted, is hard to drink so on and so forth. All best!
shareI wouldn't say unreal so much as irrational. They were desperate and desperate people do...
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It is factually known that the police poisoned the water sources of not only Ned's family, but his known sympathisers, deliberately so that Ned would have no safe haven where he could water his horses. The scene with the blood drinking is a piece of symbolic fantasy intended to indicate just how desperate and debilitated the gang had become.
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