'High Ground' Review: Two Worlds Collide in the Outback

‘High Ground’ Review: Two Worlds Collide in the Outback
Directed by Stephen Johnson, this western set in Australia doesn’t follow the expected narrative.
Jacob Junior Nayinggul in “High Ground.”Credit...Samuel Goldwyn Film
High Ground
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This outback western, set in Australia’s Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, begins in 1919, depicting a brutal massacre of a group of Indigenous people known as Yolngu. Above the killing fray is a rifleman named Travis (Simon Baker), a member of the party of white people encroaching on the land. The group below has gone against the mission — Travis was supposed to be the only member of the party authorized to shoot — so he descends from his defensive position and tries to save the Yolngu. One surviving Indigenous witness is a young boy named Gutjuk (Jacob Junior Nayinggul).

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