It was inevitable that Jimmy Blacksmith would react violently against the dominant white society.
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith is a film about a young half-caste aborigine who is exploited and turned away from both the aboriginal and white communities. .
Jimmy Blacksmiths character is one that tries hard for acceptance into white society and this is viewed throughout the film, as he works hard for white farmers doing laboring earning the income of a Blackman. Jimmy Blacksmiths battle for acceptance into white society lead him along a road of hate, injustice and prejudice that he faced trying to fit into society, inevitably leading the violent acts against the white people in his life. Australian society in 1901 towards aboriginal people was a society that was extremely prejudice and violent. The scene of Jimmy Blacksmith was set around this time as it captured the lifestyle of Australian people and used the Australian outback to reveal the times of Australian society in the younger years. .
Jimmy Blacksmiths declaration of war against the white population but more importantly the former employers of Jimmy was inevitable as the years of hate, torment and miss treating built up inside of Jimmy Blacksmith and ultimately lead to the violent attacks that Jimmy made. In discovering this, the film uses many techniques in displaying the prejudice Jimmy faced throughout the film. Techniques such as straight out to the face racist comments, from low wages for the hard and laborious work that he did for the white farmers, and the ill respect he received for it.
White Australians at the turn of the century were very much against indigenous people and this was portrayed throughout the film by the ways in which the whites acted towards the aboriginal people. This was visually seen by the camera angles and techniques used. The scenes of Jimmy working in the rain digging massive holes with only a pick and building wooden fences really show us how the white farmers treated the blacks.
