Beneath Clouds Ivan Sen Analysis

In a short period of time, Australian film have stopped depicting Indigenous people through racist clichés like ‘savages’ and ‘useless without the help of white society’, and have started using Indigenous film and television to document their culture, and encourage social change. Ivan Sen’s Beneath Clouds represents the struggles of two young Indigenous adolescents searching to discover their place in a world filled with disadvantage as a result of their disconnection from mainstream society and their own culture. Through the use of film techniques, sparse dialogue and
Characterization, Ivan Sen invites the viewer to ponder the issues that young Indigenous people face in contemporary Australia.

The two main protagonists Lena (Danielle Hall) and Vaughn (Damian Pitt) have an aspiration to escape negative and marginalized futures. Traveling through memory and history, perform as a way of preventing these futures. Lena and Vaughn discover and recognize the past and the present in new views and this becomes fundamental to the characters’ perceptions of themselves. For Lena and Vaughn to accomplish
Their search for their place in the world, they must recognize and negotiate not only history and memory, but also
Vaughn and the other young male characters seem to identify with hip-hop and rap cultures as a way of finding solidarity amongst the disadvantage and prejudice. In one of the first scenes of Vaughn, a poster of Tupac, a American rap singer is hung on his wall. Vaughn may see Tupac as a role model, as a strong black man, and for the reasons of rebellion against the repression of white people. As Vaughn’s’ relationship with Lena matures it helps him to distinguish that there are different ways in which he can deal with the problems of being a young Indigenous Australian, other than being violent and