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Analyse the narrative structure of the film The Proposition, considering the use and resolution of binary oppositions. In doing so, demonstrate how discourses of family, race, class and law and order are represented. "The Proposition" is an Australian western that concerns itself both with a number of universal themes, such as brotherhood, trust, and betrayal, and with more specific cultural and historical concerns, such as the violence, anarchy, and genocidal racism that are inherent in colonisation in general, and the British colonisation of Australia in particular. This essay will analyse how binary oppositions in the discourses of family, race, class, and law and order assist to create the narrative in "The Proposition". The proposition, in John Hillcoat's grim, taxing and utterly compelling film, is that put by Captain Stanley an English officer in charge of a gaol in a little town in outback Queensland. There has recently been a criminal outrage involving...

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