That clash is the subject of the steadily absorbing, well-acted and saddening film " Dead Heart, " an import from Australia that is written and directed by Nicholas Parsons and based on his play of the same title.
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In the opening scene of Nicholas Parsons'film " Dead Heart, " two aborigines emerge from the blazing Australian desert to join Poppy, an elder, for a few hands of poker in the nonexistent shade of a scraggly little tree.
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As frontman for Midnight Oil, Garrett belted out political songs such as " Beds Are Burning " _ a call to return land expropriated from Australia's aboriginal peoples _ " The Dead Heart, " and " Blue Sky Mine ."
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In July, while on tour, " Blackfella / Whitefella " was re-released as a track on the B-side of Midnight Oil's 12 " shared single, " The Dead Heart ", and included tour mate Coloured Stone's track " This Land ".
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However, since he's already dead, her attack actually serves to make his dead heart beat again for a few seconds ( this power had been illustrated earlier in the episode, where she restarts Gunn's normal heartbeat after her own powers affected him ).
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Very few other Midnight Oil songs have appeared so often ( only " Power and the Passion, " " Beds Are Burning, " " The Dead Heart, " and " Say Your Prayers " are " known " to have been performed so often ).
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But the real strength of " Dead Heart " lies in its tangling of aboriginal ways with the strictures of Wala Wala's pressured white contingent, dispatched to the settlement to observe, teach and, to the extent it can in a world it little understands, to supervise.
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In " Dead Heart, " a worldly young aborigine named Tony ( Ray Pedersen ) is ordered to be killed when Poppy discovers he has made love to Les'wife, Kate ( Angie Milliken ), on a patch of sacred ground, an offense that can only be punished by death.
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The band subsequently toured with label mates Minus The Bear, performed hometown shows at Chicago's Metro and the Black Cat in Washington, DC, and performed on the JBTV Television Show in Chicago, IL . Touring members included Boris Skalsky and Paul Wood of New York band Dead Heart Bloom.
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"Dead Heart, " set in Wala Wala, an arid settlement in the middle of nowhere, stars Bryan Brown as Ray Lorkin, a senior police constable who regards himself as a just lawman who can look the other way at some infractions but draws the line where he feels he must.
