Review: 'SNOWTOWN'
Director: 'KURZEL, JUSTIN'
Writen By: 'Justin Kurzel, Sean Grant'
- Starring: 'Lucas Pittaway, Bob Adrians, Louise Harris'
- Genre: 'Foreign'
- Release Date: '18th November 2011'
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This is just about the grimmest film I have seen in a very long time indeed. It's set in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Australia: the sort of place that if you were unfortunate enough to grow up there your main ambition in life would be to move the hell away from there when the first opportunity presents itself.
Unfortunately for the three kids at the centre of this true story they haven't got enough get up and go to get the hell out of dodge and save themselves from the awful man their totally complacent mother shacks up with. He turns out to be an appallingly bigoted Homophobic serial killer.
The film really has no redeeming features as it shows the small town horror show of what they do to the neighbor who takes inappropriate pictures of the kids, through to the paedophilic incestual rape and its aftermath. Then there are the get togethers where everyone discusses what they would do if they caught a paedo with the worst trannie ever seen on film. Enlightening it ain't.
As the crimes unfold we see all sorts of torture and sickness wrought on paedos and Junkies or any other group the central character takes a dislike too. There is a very odd and disquieting scene where an ugly fat woman makes egg mayonnaise sandwiches for the central guy who then sits down and eat the sandwiches while she strips naked and parades before him for no good reason. Its very odd and unsettling. At least a couple of the characters don't say anything for at least an hour in a very Sergio Leone kind of way that seems to add to the level of evil they are involved in.
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The moment that made the cinema jump out of its skin was actually telegraphed and shouldn't have been a surprise yet still everyone jumped out of their seats. I cannot recommend this film unless you like really grim, nasty as all hell movies with no redeeming features. It is very well acted and shot but it makes Hostel seem like a feelgood movie. This isn't torture porn it is sick twisted nastiness. I'm not sure I could stomach watching this film a second time. I'd feel guilty for having made the choice to do so.
Snowtown movie site
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author: simonovitch
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