ned kelly notes

The movie "Ned Kelly" is telling the audience about Australian history and that Australia is not a perfect country, but struggles with criminals as well. It also conveys racism, not against blacks, but against the Irish. This is now dispelled as Ned Kelly is known as the 'Australian hero', not the 'Irish Migrant of Australia hero'. The Kelly family were always the target of the soldiers' fun. Friendship is portrayed as being vital, as the gang of outlaws would not have been able to achieve what they did if their bonds were not as strong. A barrier between classes was also evident in the movie, which is applicable to those times and even in modern times.
The movie presents Ned Kelly as a hero more than being a murderous villain. For once, the audience believes that the police are the villains and hope that Ned Kelly can outrun them subsequently escaping to safety. Towards the end of the film during the final shoot-out, Kelly is especially viewed as a hero when he staggers out of the pub in his infamous armour and leaves himself open to the police's gunfire. He is seen fighting to his death and killing many men in the meantime. The audience is left feeling as though Ned Kelly is a hero.
Ned Kelly very sensitively portrays the harshness, but also the humanity, of daily life of poor Irish immigrants like the Kellys. Anyone who was afraid that a big budget and an all-star cast would transform our favourite bushranging legend into a cheesy Hollywood-style western can rest assured. Even without the fine acting, subtle humour and beautifully filmed shots of the Australian landscape, the Kelly tale is a fascinating subject, whose moral lessons have great contemporary, as well as historical, value.
In order to create a representation of Ned Kelly that the responder is likely to accept and sympathize with the composer has positioned the responder to view Ned as a loving son, protective brother and lover. This was achieved with the introduction of a love interest, Julia Cook.