CROSSBOW
When at the Jackson Hole Film Festival, I’d mentioned a number of films that got stuck in my soul.
CUTE COUPLE by Courtney Balaker. REWIND by Atul Taishete and CROSSBOW by David Michod.
All shorts. And ALL, better, smarter and more thought provoking than anything I’ve seen in a very, very long time. Empowered and validated, I was once again reminded by what ‘cannot’ be done for fifty million.
Well, I found CROSSBOW.
This film is of adult content and is played best at home, in the dark, with a good set of headphones.
See you in 14 minutes.
C, I watched this tonight after the kids were in bed, it was amazing. The amazing thing about it is that it may as well have been filmed in my town, the street, the people, the cars, everything… was were i live. Nothing changes from suburb to suburb in Australia, its not like America, Australia is just a big country town thats spread over the size of America.
Here were I live we have 95% of the people who live like the people in this flick, the bikes, the blue collar workers, and the druggies, the other 5% live in the ‘heights’ were the million dollar acarges are. I live in the ‘heights’ but I work at the post office and deal with the people from this flick every day. (I’m not rich by the way, I just happened to buy a property 2 months before they skyrocketed in value)
Someone I work with is a classic example of the people in this flick, lower class, selfish, rough!! 2 months ago, a colleague walked in and one look of her face told us something was wrong. the son of the lady I mentioned had hung himself in the garage the night before, probably same age as the boy in this movie, desperate for love, desperate for someone to notice him after years of being ignored. He’d obviously decided after he’d jumped that he didn’t particularly want to die of hanging and had tried to pull the rope off, resulting in him being found with his jugular ruptured and his neck torn to strips. I work next to his mother everyday, everyday she cries, but nothings changed, she’s still a selfish, hard nosed, nasty bitch!!
I’m sure this type of story is not confined to Australia, it just so happens that this was filmed in Australia, but I’m sure its true everywhere. Thanks for sharing, I’m sure I watched it with a different perspective to you, to you everything was probably unfamiliar, to me it was so familiar it was frightening. Australia is a wonderful country, but this side of Australia is very very real.