One of my all time favorites.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Apparently I watched this movie with a distinct disadvantage: I wasn't stoned.I can come up with plenty of adjectives to explain my dislike for it: incoherent, random, plot less, exploitative, amateurish.I have questions too:How did the car get to what looks like outback Northern Territory or Western Australia from Sydney with the lunch still packed and fresh and the two children still dressed in pristine school uniforms.Why are the children dressed in pristine school uniforms when they've accompanied weird old' dad to the outback??Why are we okay with the child nudity and sexual content in this film? Is it because it's "art"? Or because it's a "classic"?Why is every single white person in it weird or sociopathic?Why do random characters like the weather research people appear for no other reason than to release a balloon?How did this movie attract funding?

Walkabout (1971)Story about deserted siblings in the Australian Outback, meeting an aborigine on his spiritual journey to manhood. But if you look closer, you'll also find a story about civilization, communication and the harsh beauty of nature. Close-ups of creatures dwelling in the desert reveal the circle of life. Death and life are closely related. But what makes us people different from these creatures? Our ability to speak perhaps? But what happens when you can't communicate? Through civilization we learn how to talk, how to walk and how to dress. But we don't learn how to survive in the harsh nature of the wilderness. Which boundaries can love transcend? The characters have no names and very little background information is given. But that's a good thing. This is a timeless story and palpable for all viewers. Great Movie, as rated by the late Roger Ebert​. Highly recommended!

Walkabout takes a premise that brims with condescending racism and Oscar-bait melodrama: a pair of white Australians are lost in the wilderness, but saved by a silent and resourceful Aboriginal, who teaches them the ways of nature and leads the young woman to a sexual awakening. It doesn't so much escape from these trappings as sweep them aside by making the whole narrative elliptical and bizarre, more reminiscent of a heat-drenched dream than a realist narrative.Roeg's visual gifts are the main attraction here, from the dissonantly- edited montages to the brutal close-ups of natural life. Walkabout is not a film that asks you to sit back and admire the beauty of a natural vista, but rather one that rubs your nose in the violent struggle for survival that is the wilderness. Jenny Agutter manages to wrench the viewer's attention away from the bizarre visuals, with both her beauty and her strangely detached air. David Guilpilil's Aborigine does certainly fall into the "noble savage" archetype, but there are some moments in the film which suggest that this too is an illusion.Walkabout is a film that at first seems instantly dated, but then suddenly becomes too strange to fit in comfortably with any time period or movement. For fans of experimental cinema, this is a must-see.

This movie is difficult to rate. First you have to take into consideration it is from the 70's and looks it. Second, although it is in English, it is an Austrailian/UK film which can be very different from American film. The Good: beautiful scenery, cerebral context, Jenny Agutter was pretty & a decent actress as well as David Gulpilil, as the aboriginal boy; interesting adventure of kids lost in the Outback. The Bad: for those that don't like cerebral films, it moves slowly, taking in scenery and nature, often with long moments of silence or just musical score and the musical score leaves much to be desired; also, there are some scenes in the beginning and end that you have to ponder and aren't spelled out for you (I basically understood, but many reviewers were confused); The Ugly: the movie often shows the killing & gutting of animals; it also splices in flashes of modern civilization, for example the aboriginal boy hacking up an animal he just caught, with flashes of a butcher chopping up meats (although I think I understand why the director did this, I felt that it was intrusive & interrupted the flow); also, parents beware, there is a long nude scene of the girl swimming (Jenny, was playing a 16 years old in the film, but the actress was 18 years old), although it is tasteful, she is shown in full frontal nudity and is also shown naked a few other times in the film (Trivia: the actress was embarrassed during the nude swimming, so most of the crew had to leave while filming that scene, but later they all went skinny dipping together.) So, although it has some artistic quality, I didn't love it (or hate it.) I probably wouldn't recommend this film, because it will only appeal to a certain group of movie watchers...a 5/10 (middle of the road) in My Humble Opinion! 2014