Thoughts on watching Wake In Fright again.
It's a great movie, for one (see over here for further appraisal from me).
Third time around, it still makes for incredible viewing - especially in the way the camera faces up to the merciless heat and isolation of Australia's outback, the relentless male camaraderie. I can recall weeks, months, spent thinking that I was aware life was going on as normal around me, that not everyone was waking up unable to cope, desperate for their next alcohol fix, but unable to picture such "normality" at all. Where Wake In Fright is truly chilling is in its depiction of alcohol as a substitute for... everything... the false brotherhood and laughter of endless pints and whiskies.
Fuck, I really don't miss the days of waking up in strange buildings.
Fuck, I really don't miss the days of drunken fumblings.
I'm actually kind of scared that one of these days a switch in my brain will click and I'll be able to remember EVERYTHING.
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ReplyDeleteJim Smith
The Cars That Ate Paris surely?
August 24 at 7:51pm · Delete
Lauren Zoric
Agreed. Although I still think Dogs in Space is brilliant...!
August 24 at 9:40pm · Delete
Everett True
wait a sec. sorry. shouldn't have been a question mark there.
August 24 at 9:50pm · Delete
Lauren Zoric
cars that ate paris is also amazing. sinister, like
August 24 at 9:53pm · Delete
Everett True
alright. you got me. just checked it out online and it looks fkn incredible. where do i get a copy?
August 24 at 9:54pm · Delete
Lauren Zoric
it'll probably screen on SBS at 11.45pm on a tuesday night some time in the next ten years. look out for it
August 24 at 9:59pm · Delete
Everett True
just ordered it online from amazon UK for four quid incl p&p. (my sister can send it on.) looks great!
August 24 at 10:02pm · Delete
Lauren Zoric
god, is there anything england can't do? one minute it's total humiliation for australian cricket, next they're flogging our classic film catalogue for under a fiver!
August 24 at 10:05pm · Delete
Everett True
i also ordered a 3-DVD set of Picnic At Hanging Rock for under a tenner (incl p&p)
August 24 at 10:58pm · Delete
James Michael Lomas
The Last Of The Knucklemen.Gold!
August 25 at 12:23pm · Delete
Larry Pickleman
have you seen "bad boy bubby" yet...that's my fav oz flick I've come acorss recently!
August 25 at 9:01pm · Delete