How can a father do this?

Movie name is Walkabout

In Walkabout, two young siblings are stranded in the vast, sun scorched Australian outback after a sudden, tragic event leaves them alone and lost. With no survival skills and no clear direction, they wander through an endless landscape that feels both beautiful and merciless.

Their fragile hope shifts when they encounter an Aboriginal boy on his walkabout, a traditional rite of passage where he survives alone in the wilderness. Though they share no common language, he becomes their quiet guide teaching them how to find water, hunt, and move with the rhythm of the land.

As the journey continues, innocence and civilization slowly collide with nature’s raw reality. The bond between them is unspoken but powerful, shaped by survival rather than words. But as they near safety, cultural distance and misunderstanding quietly reshape everything they’ve experienced, leaving behind a haunting reflection on connection, loss, and the fragile line between nature and modern life.

He can't be their real father, and be doing this

Exactly because this is a bizarre behavior

@EmmyBright27 The father kills himself. I don’t know his motive for shooting his kids but he isn’t like an evil stepfather seeking their inheritance. It’s more likely mental illness or not wanting to leave them behind.

@EmmyBright27 Oh okay Thank you

Such a unique film. Part of the renaissance of Australian film before Hollywood money drew the directors away.

Oh really It’s a nice movie though

As others have mentioned, this is a movie called Walkabout from 1971. He was their father. He was despondent and depressed. When the children escaped, he set the car on fire and shot himself. Soon after they met an aboriginal boy who befriended them. Their adventure continued. ..

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That's heartbreaking to watch. No child deserves that kind of fear from their own father. Some parents in movies (and sadly real life) break the one bond that's supposed to feel safe.

Absolutely. A parent should be a child’s safe place, not the source of their fear. Seeing that kind of betrayal is heartbreaking because it goes against one of the most important bonds a person can have.

equipment as well as how it's shot. The ending is quite sad, but does relay the moral of the ideal, that when life's situations become so horrible, more than often there seems to be a reprieve. I gave it 5 stars out of 5, but with parental advisement. djb

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How can a father do this? The betrayal and fear in that moment is heartbreaking. Turning on your own kids like that creates the kind of trauma no child should ever face. Pure evil parent energy.

A parent is supposed to be the person who protects you from fear, not the person causing it. That’s what makes scenes like that so painful to watch the betrayal cuts deeper than anything else. No child should have to look at their own father and feel unsafe. That kind of hurt can leave scars long after the moment is over.

Walkabout (1971) adventure survival film starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg and David Gulpilil. A story of two children who are put into a deeply disturbing and unexpected situation that changes both of their lives forever. A box office flop that's now considered a classic. 🎥🎥🍿

Nice one Thanks for the review

So what did the man left with? An aircraft?

😂 lol

Some fathers are not supposed to be parent

Exactly

Oh yes You watched it

Hmmmmmm......this terrible.....what's the movie title?

No way their father was trying to get rid of them 😳

Yes that was what he was up to

their dad took an uber to come back to city?

😂this one

@grok what’s the movie name

I am yet to understand why he did that

Yes unless you watch the movie

*Review: This is an excellent movie, composed in the late 60s to Early 1970s. Deals with a parent going mentally ill & attempts in his madness, to euthanize his children as well. Tremendous casting, script action play. How cultures differing also clash. Recommended for mature

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lol there Father few hours after conducting a DNA test 😂

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Rate this movie

This is heartbreaking

Yes very heartbreaking

It was not intentional

Like seriously It was

Just another day in the USA

Okay🌚

This is deeply heartbreaking, how can a father do that ?

I wonder even

Who tf write these trash ass movies.. a dad takes his kids to the dessert to kill them yeah ighhhht I heard that before

he's just showing him how life works

Wow are you sure

@grok why the father left the kids ?

"Walkabout" starring Jenny Agutter. Parts of it were very educational to a young me!

Yes a very nice movie

May be he conducted a DNA test and find out his not there father. But even as that he is not supposed to be ev*l

Finding out something like that can break a person emotionally, but it still doesn’t automatically justify becoming evil or hurting others. Pain can explain behavior, but it doesn’t excuse losing your humanity.

audiences. Some elements of the script deal with tribalism to where the Christian, others, or civilized mind has trouble dealing with. Some parts of this movie, how the script plays out, are breathtakingly composed. This is the big discovery era of out of this world photographic

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