Movies

One of the great things about not working at soul sucking day job is cheap Monday movies – I know I've mentioned it before but $6 movies on Lygon Street – you really cannot be asking for more than that. That makes you a greedy guts and you should be ashamed of yourself. Go and sit in the corner until you can appreciate the wonder and glory that is $6 movies on Lygon Street.

Right. Where was I?

MOVIES!

Well, I went and saw Snowtown today. Yeah, the one that Richard Wilkins called depraved and gave no stars and said he took one for the team by going to see it so we all wouldn't have to. And then twitter went a bit mad with him and everyone was either pro-Snowtown or anti-Snowtown. So, I went to see that.

Oh, you want to know what I think?

Snowtown is a devastating, poetic examination of a period in Australian history that has never been widely discussed, that we prefer to think is a freak occurrence that will never happen again, but could so easily, because this happened so easily. The acting, the writing, the directing, the slow deliberate camera that makes us keep watching, that forces us to confront every detail of this horrific story, are all carefully considered and of the highest order. Richard Wilkins, you should be ashamed of yourself for so wildly missing the point of this film and the Snowtown boys and girls should pat yourselves on the back. You are exactly the kind of filmmakers this country needs. And I only looked away twice. I think I did pretty well.