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The last wave meaning a giant tidal wave that will cover the earth, killing humanity. This idea is similar to the Christian belief in the flood that was sent down centuries ago to destroy all the evil in the world.
Jul 24, 2019 · Summary: David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is a corporate tax lawyer living in middle-class comfort in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two young daughters. His life is turned upside-down when he agrees to defend a group of young aboriginal men who have been accused of murder.
Jul 24, 2020 · Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977) Reveals the Eschatological Divide Between Settler and Indigenous Australia. “Why didn’t you tell me there were mysteries?” So asks our protagonist, the lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain), of his father, Reverend Burton (Fred Parslow), midway through Peter Weir’s The Last Wave.
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During one of these freak rainstorms in Sydney, an altercation occurs among a group of Aboriginal people in a pub which results in a mysterious drowning death. At the coroner's inquest, the death is ruled a homicide and four of the Aboriginal men are accused of murder.
Nov 26, 2001 · The Last Wave involves a Chinese box of mysteries—from the sudden death of a healthy Australian aboriginal to the conundrum of a white Australian’s dreams. The plot line follows a Sydney corporate tax lawyer, David, who takes on a legal aid case involving a group of aboriginals accused of murdering a man outside their tribe.
One rainy night, an Aboriginal man named Billy Corman dies. Five other Aboriginal men are arrested on suspicion of murder, and a young white attorney named David Burton is hired to represent them, even though his background is corporate tax law.
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Jan 16, 2012 · In this case it's Chamberlain's white liberal lawyer who, in defending a group of Aborigines accused of murder, stumbles across a world of ritual mysteries and...
