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When watching a film, I am often pulled into its story and plot, paying little attention to the great effort and art that is put into it. I’m sure this is the same case with many people. Little to some of us realize that everything put into a film, down to the smallest shifting of the camera, usually has a meaning. It’s the obvious things, as well as the small things that trigger our emotions and this is what makes our movie-going experience so memorable. We may watch a film and like it or hate it, but it is the elements and techniques used that determine how we feel. A great example of how everything seen on the screen has meaning and can trigger our emotions comes from Phillip Noyce’s, Rabbit-Proof Fence. Set in Australia in 1931, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the story of a government policy that required children that were half white and half aboriginal to be taken from their homes by authorities to be trained to work as servants for the whites. This is based on a true story about three young girls who decided to escape from this training facility and they used Australia’s long stretches of rabbit-proof fences (the longest fence in the world designed to control the rabbit plague) as their guide to make the long jo