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Not bad...just the chipmunks have a bit too much of a human face and not a chipmunk face.

Excellent film showing how collective Socialism is a failure and robs the Aborigines of their freedom. Wonderful scenery and recreation of turn of the Century station life. Australians make good movies... take that Hollywood. The "fever" they refer to is likely a Plasmodium falciparum infection, a form of malaria with high mortality rates when untreated. Unfortunately the little fellow is becoming resistant to many drugs and due to its great ability to change, attempts to develop a vaccine have not been too successful either. They should be showing this film in our schools instead of fiction like Al Gore's climate change film. Gee... in this movie, it is hot, long before airplanes and trucks infiltrated the area.

sir_luke wrote:I found it amusing and sad that Kino's trailer for Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights includes the disclaimer: "This is not an adaptation of Arabian Nights - despite drawing on its structure."

Lemmy Caution wrote:Otherwise, who knew there were hot places on earth prior to global warming? While "airplanes and trucks" seems to demonstrate a rather limited understanding of the causes of climate change.

Lemmy Caution wrote:An Imdb review, in full, of the Aussie film We of The Never Never:

Excellent film showing how collective Socialism is a failure and robs the Aborigines of their freedom. Wonderful scenery and recreation of turn of the Century station life. Australians make good movies... take that Hollywood. The "fever" they refer to is likely a Plasmodium falciparum infection, a form of malaria with high mortality rates when untreated. Unfortunately the little fellow is becoming resistant to many drugs and due to its great ability to change, attempts to develop a vaccine have not been too successful either. They should be showing this film in our schools instead of fiction like Al Gore's climate change film. Gee... in this movie, it is hot, long before airplanes and trucks infiltrated the area.

Somehow they managed 4 digs at those awful, misguided Liberals in just 7 sentences.
Needless to say the reviewer is American. And none of their political points have anything to do with the actual film. There's no evidence the Aborigines are collectivized -- they seem to have personal possessions, and we really don't see their lifestyle much. I assume they mean social welfare, though even that's incorrect as the natives have to work in order to get supplies -- flour, sugar and tobacco -- from the Whites. And their freedom kind of took a hit when their lands were appropriated. Interesting how our right-wing reviewer didn't note colonialism, the pervasive racism or the concept of superior/inferior races, all of which the film critiques.

Otherwise, who knew there were hot places on earth prior to global warming? While "airplanes and trucks" seems to demonstrate a rather limited understanding of the causes of climate change. Finally, it's unclear how Australians making a quality film, in a rather Hollywood style no less, is somehow a reproach to Hollywood. I'm somewhat disappointed they couldn't find a way to blame the lack of a cure for malaria on government incompetence. It starts to sound suspiciously like they believe in science. Next time I expect all 7 sentences to be politicized!

furbicide wrote: Not sure if you meant to capitalise 'Liberals', but let's just say that word has somewhat different connotations in Australia. (For instance, that reviewer would almost certainly be a Liberal voter.)

jindianajonz wrote:

furbicide wrote: Not sure if you meant to capitalise 'Liberals', but let's just say that word has somewhat different connotations in Australia. (For instance, that reviewer would almost certainly be a Liberal voter.)

I suppose being in the southern hemisphere, political stances would be reversed

The first 30 minutes is just seeing our main character being beaten by his father and then in turn Gavino abusing goats and in one terribly unnecessary moment actually rapes a goat. I can usually handle about anything in movies, but when your main attraction is child and animal abuse, you better have a good story to tell and this movie doesn’t.

“Moon Sickness” attempts to lighten the mood with a story about a man who begins to behave madly under a full moon, allowing his wife a rather convenient opportunity for adultery with her cousin. I find all aspects of this story rather distasteful, making it my least favorite in the bunch.

domino harvey wrote:Assuming the above is true, I don't think objecting to bestiality makes someone uncultured swine...

colinr0380 wrote:Speaking of uncultured swine, I'm not sure how that commentator would react to the eye-popping Japanese Roman Porno film Eros School: Feels So Good, which starts off queasy with a older student getting hired to transfer in and then, ahem, sexually assault all of the female classmates, before at its climax it goes into similarly frustrated territory as the 'hero', made jealous by this older student's prowess:

Spoiler

impulsively rapes the school's pet pig mascot in frustration outside the classroom in that his girlfriend is being deflowered in!

This was directed by Kurahara Koretsugu, the brother of Koreyoshi Kurahara who was the subject of an Eclipse set.

matrixschmatrix wrote:

colinr0380 wrote:Speaking of uncultured swine, I'm not sure how that commentator would react to the eye-popping Japanese Roman Porno film Eros School: Feels So Good, which starts off queasy with a older student getting hired to transfer in and then, ahem, sexually assault all of the female classmates, before at its climax it goes into similarly frustrated territory as the 'hero', made jealous by this older student's prowess:

Spoiler

impulsively rapes the school's pet pig mascot in frustration outside the classroom in that his girlfriend is being deflowered in!

This was directed by Kurahara Koretsugu, the brother of Koreyoshi Kurahara who was the subject of an Eclipse set.

Man, that's like a whole school of Japanese film, huh? Like I got kind of excited about the Nikkatsu Roman Porno period that follows the gangster/new wave stuff Arrow has been putting out lately, since it shares a lot of the talent, but there is a really strong and repeated emphasis on rape specifically presented as a source of erotic fascination, with the apparent assumption that sexual violence is just a thing the audience will enjoy looking at (as opposed to, say, Oshima, who whatever you say about him doesn't ever appear to have presented sexual horrors in the hope the audience would have something to get off to.)

Though now that I think of it, a lot of American and British cinema was similarly obsessed at the time- everything from A Boy and His Dog to Zardoz was kind of fixated on it as a subject, and if not actually intended as pornography, it's certainly often presented as some kind of impressive or justifiable display of machismo. What the hell was going on?

I love cinema more than anyone else on YELP and probably am in the top 10 cinema lovers in the entire United States...

colinr0380 wrote:Speaking of uncultured swine, I'm not sure how that commentator would react to the eye-popping Japanese Roman Porno film Eros School: Feels So Good, which starts off queasy with a older student getting hired to transfer in and then, ahem, sexually assault all of the female classmates, before at its climax it goes into similarly frustrated territory as the 'hero', made jealous by this older student's prowess:

Spoiler

impulsively rapes the school's pet pig mascot in frustration outside the classroom in that his girlfriend is being deflowered in!

This was directed by Kurahara Koretsugu, the brother of Koreyoshi Kurahara who was the subject of an Eclipse set.