Walkabout

Nicholas Roeg's walkabout is essentially a film about the confines of life and expands into the efforts gone to to stay sane when life has turned out differently to what you wanted and you no longer feel anything but undying rage for those around you.As well as this it explores what happens when you are thrown from the things you a accustomed to. The use of brick walls symbolizes the struggle to break through the artificial layers we impose on our selves through life. In the film, the man has obviously done well for himself as his children go to seemingly expensive schools, his wife is aesthetically pleasing and his house is large. But we see him walking alone through a stark city, sitting alone at lunch on the roof of a grey, generic building with cement beams looming overhead. His life is full of things, but he is empty. There's no communication or real expressions of love between characters and it probably shouldn't have been such a shock when the father goes postal and tries to kill his children and fails, but succeeds in killing himself.