The Sapphires

The Sapphires is an Australian dramatic and comedy movie about four women singers. In May

2012, it premiered in Australia during the Cannes Festival. The Movie is about a group of

indigenous women, Gail Julie, Kay, and Cynthia, who decide to form a music group after being

discovered by a scout. In 1968, they travel to Vietnam to sing for the military troops during the

war. The production of the movie began in 2010, after the selection of all the four members of

“The Sapphires group”, and the filming took place in a variety of locations in Vietnam, New

South Wales, and Australia.

With the story being based on of the 2004 homonymous play by Tony Briggs, the movie was

initially presented in June 2010. This film is inspired by the true story of Briggs' mother, Laurel

Robinson and her aunt, Lois Peeler, who made a tip to Vietnam to sing for the armed forces

troops. The script was written by Briggs and Keith Thompson. Filming happened mainly in New

South Wales as well as in neighboring arears such as Morven, Howlong, Culcairn and Corowa),

with some additional shots taken in Summerhill, Camden, Windsor. The rest of the production

was carried out in Vietnam, for a series of shots.

Monologue: Julie

Consciousness makes us all cowards. And so the native color of sick resolution by the pale spell

of thought and companies of great importance and weight with what this refers to, their currents

overflow and lose the name of action. My mother was not of noble birth. She was strongly

against matrimony. So when she met my father, she was determined not to get married to him.

She ruled the house with an iron fist. I remember it like it was yesterday. My mother scolded me

a lot and said: Julie behave, I am going to hit you. I cried until my eyes could not take it
anymore. The house felt like a prison cell. I was not allowed to go to town with my sisters. A

controlling mother and a strong will to succeed. That is the life I know all too well. I wanted to

be free and so I fought, resisting the pain and suffering, with the purpose of being free! I chased

after my dreams of becoming a singer.

Goodbye mother. I am leaving for Vietnam to sing for the troops. I do not want you to look for

me and much less do I want you to follow me. I have already had enough of you. I am not a rag

puppet that you can use at will. I am a free woman. My sisters are nice. The loving mother I

never had. On the stage, my sorrows would disappear. I forget that I am just a young mother and

an aboriginal woman. I forget my sorrowful past. A soft breeze impertinently crosses my face

and gives me a faint breath of hope.

For who would endure the lashes and insults of time? The injustice of the oppressor, the scorn of

the proud, the piercing pain of despised love, the delay of the law, the insolence of power, and

insults from a loved one? Fulfilling our dreams stuns the will and makes us endure the evils laid

against us. Maybe I thought about fleeing; perhaps I thought big things, perhaps I let my patience

and hope flood my whole existence. Maybe this is a part of a story that started as bad as a dream.

From an early age, I realized that the circumstances were the reflection of my thoughts, but I

never managed to handle it. Goodbye to the woman I was not, halo to the hope of fulfilling my

dreams.

I might be young and naïve but being a mother has been one of the best experiences of my life. I

feel that life is a kind of test room that we must go through to reach a higher level and thus

achieve enlightenment. Now all very nice but life is not fair to us in any case, a person can work

all their lives in pursuit of certain goals and dreams but we will always have to complicate
things. If you think that in life you do not have any problem or concern, you are wrong because

we are never completely sure of what will happen to us and how it will influence our lives. I

think the secret is to prepare physically and mentally to overcome what life has to offer us.

Perhaps this is the first step so that the life we have in the future will be what we want so much,

we must prepare ourselves to live with the uncertainty that each step we make will be more firm

for the next.

A person is defined by their codes, values and what identifies them. Below this level are the

beliefs that are powerful perceptual filters that will validate what confirms them. These are also

determined by the values that the person has. If someone thinks they can, probably try and get

trained, if they have a limiting belief as a product of a demanding and perfectionist value, surely

they will not be able to. We see in these cases how an enabling view is more important than a

gift. If the belief allows, the person will be trained and will come to fruition. Without it, it is

impossible for this to happen. Even more external than the competition, but as a product of it is

the area of conduct. In this area, people put their skills to work, or not. There are active people

who will try and take to the practice and others more passive or inhibited or theoretical who do

not. Finally, there is the environment. Here the person unfolds his action and leaves his mark on

the world. There are people who perform actions of short range, only personal, and others that

gravitate to the environment, transcending it. When a person has all these levels aligned, he

advances without problems. The issue is when one of them comes into conflict.