No other word quite describes the gruelling two hour vision of Justin Kurzel, painting small town Australia with shadowy colours of the Australian flag. Spoiler alert for Snowtown, Kurzel’s new film. The Snowtown story is well-crafted. A young man abused by his half-brother and photographed naked by a queer neighbour, develops a relationship with a [...]
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Relentless
Posted in film, tagged Justin Kurzel, Snowtown on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
QM at the Movies
Posted in film, tagged film, quantum mechanics, source code on May 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As soon as I hear characters mention “quantum mechanics” in a film, I have to stifle a yawn. The laws and properties governing sub-atomic particles is often deployed in a humanistic attack of “alternate universes”, “multiple selves”, etc to often little effect with the exception of assuring the audience that this wonderful and astounding hidden [...]
Read Water Read
Posted in family, film, Friendship, Uncategorized, tagged family, fatherhood, Friendship, Heraclitus, motherhood, Oedipus, short film, Sophocles on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ray’s father, Donnie, passed away in a hospital on the Gold Coast on Wednesday, finally crossing the river Styx after a four week extension of life with one kidney operating at less than five per cent, major organ failure, cirrhosis of the liver, and diarrhoea constant until the doctors pumped seven litres of fluid from [...]
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