(2005) I became interested after reading a review somewhere that said, "Aussie Western makes Tombstone look like Paradise."
I watched it last night and found it to be a really good movie. The plot is that 2 bothers of a notorious gang are captured after a shootout and a Captain offers to let them live if the middle brother will find the older brother and kill him. The Proposition. The younger brother is held, and the middle brother rides after the older brother...
The plot is very simple and the special effects are few. There, now that the average film enthusiast has left us, let me tell you that the views of both beauty and desolation are fantastic, that the shooting is quite graphic, and that a gem escapes the lips of even the hardest men, upon accepting their fate. There is torture - a beating where the man does not bite a piece of leather to keep from crying out but instead howls throughout, as he is either a halfwit or an innocent refusing to accept that something so horrible could be invoked against his will.
I have a very close friend that married an Austrailian girl whose mother was removed from her family and found her way back in a rabbit-proof fence sort of incident, so I am always interested in films that depict progressive developments in the face of native cultures. This is only the background though as sadistic violence is responded to by angry people who discover that only the truly sadistic can continue to needlessly take lives.
Your appreciation will be greater if you have lived outdoors for longer than a month without a shower, worn the same clothing for that same period or ever spent an entire day or two just keeping flies off your face. No crisp-white shirted cowboys in this 'western.'
I watched it last night and found it to be a really good movie. The plot is that 2 bothers of a notorious gang are captured after a shootout and a Captain offers to let them live if the middle brother will find the older brother and kill him. The Proposition. The younger brother is held, and the middle brother rides after the older brother...
The plot is very simple and the special effects are few. There, now that the average film enthusiast has left us, let me tell you that the views of both beauty and desolation are fantastic, that the shooting is quite graphic, and that a gem escapes the lips of even the hardest men, upon accepting their fate. There is torture - a beating where the man does not bite a piece of leather to keep from crying out but instead howls throughout, as he is either a halfwit or an innocent refusing to accept that something so horrible could be invoked against his will.
I have a very close friend that married an Austrailian girl whose mother was removed from her family and found her way back in a rabbit-proof fence sort of incident, so I am always interested in films that depict progressive developments in the face of native cultures. This is only the background though as sadistic violence is responded to by angry people who discover that only the truly sadistic can continue to needlessly take lives.
Your appreciation will be greater if you have lived outdoors for longer than a month without a shower, worn the same clothing for that same period or ever spent an entire day or two just keeping flies off your face. No crisp-white shirted cowboys in this 'western.'
