Saturday, December 27, 2014   Movie Review  Rabbit Proof Fence
(2002)  November 29, 2002  FILM REVIEW; Aborigine Girls Run Away
From a Racist Program  Published: November 29, 2002  Casting a
measured gaze on a shameful chapter of Australian history,
''Rabbit-Proof Fence'' makes no bones about who is right and
wrong in its devastating portrayal of that country's disgraceful
treatment of its Aborginal population for much of the last
century. Although the movie, adapted from a book by Doris
Pilkington Garimara, pushes emotional buttons and simplifies its
true story to give it the clean narrative sweep of an extended
folk ballad, it never goes dramatically overboard.   On the side
of wrong is the Australian government, which, for more than half
a century (from 1905 to 1971) carried out this appalling program
of legalized kidnapping. ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'' is set in 1931,
when the executor of that policy was A. O. Neville (Kenneth
Branagh), a man so intransigently certain of its ultimate
benefit to everyone involv