Based on the life and work of Monty Pryor (Model, DJ and Storyteller) this film/show is entertaining and educational. I know of some of the racial crime our people have inflicted on the native owners of this land, but this gives a new perspective with a few comic twists.
Based on real events, this film tells the story of Monty Pryor (played by Clarence John Ryan), an Aboriginal Australian, originally from Palm Island, who later called Townsville home and then worked as a DJ in the Albion Charles Hotel, which he describes in the narration as "the roughest pub in Melbourne". The film (I should point out that I saw this as a film, on ABC TV, although I did notice that on ABC's iView online viewing platform it was segmented into parts and even IMDB lists this as a "TV mini-series" with 4 parts) cuts between Monty's time in Melbourne, Victoria, 1976 (aged 26) and Palm Island, Queensland, 1962, when he was 12 years old.
I thought I knew of the struggle of the Aboriginal people but after watching THE WRONG KIND OF BLACK, I realised I knew nothing. Set in the 70's, this is the true story of an ordinary Aboriginal man from Townsville who became truly extraordinary.
