Their future: what future? Can a psychopath have a future that doesn't involve a grizzily death or perpetual incarceration?Īlas, the predictability element is there from the very beginning.and, the ending has a head-on collision with melodrama - just a little too noir-ish to tick the satisfied box. Their backstory is revealed fleetingly - through flashbacks, blink (literally) and you'll miss them. But.melts in the presence of his paramour. That is what drew me to it and wanted to be part of it, the 38-year-old says. What does come as a surprise: the hunk is a sensitive, brawling, bipolar psychopath.who is not adverse to flattening a man's head with his foot. Pommie’s story becomes a little more layered than your bog-standard thug. So, bearing this in mind, Cut Snake's big revelation is not exactly a surprise - head-nodding and thought sos reverberate. This 'play' is either a symptom of the situation or it's a clearcut preference. Anyone with half a brain n in prison 'play' with men in prison. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN 'Well, this has been a day, hasn't it' Jiriel remarked to her family down in Cavern Hole, where they'd retreated to make room for the stung creatures and their healers to work up in Great Hall. Posted in Australian, Film Reviews and tagged Alex Russell, crime genre, cut snake australian slang, cut snake movie, sullivan stapleton, tony ayres. I first published this review to Facebook on 25.9.15 Sullivan Stapleton as Pommie (L) and Alex Russell as Sparra (R) Incidentally, for those unfamiliar with Australian slang, the expression ‘mad as a cut snake’ suggests someone or something insanely out of control. I just found it illuminating, after having watched the film, to hear director Tony Ayres talking (on Radio National to Jason di Rosso) about ‘the homoeroticism of violence’, which turns out to be a central theme in the story. If you don’t want any kind of hint as to plot development, read no further. The violence in this film is quite confronting. Not since Eric Bana played Chopper Read has there been such a brilliantly powerful evocation of this kind of character: in Pommie there’s the same weirdly charismatic combination of brute physical strength and psychological fragility, the same sense of repressed rage that could at any moment explode into terrifying violence, which it does. Pommie’s the career criminal ex-con just out of the joint who goes in search of his old cellmate Sparra (Alex Russell) to draw him back into a life of crime, never mind that Sparra has got his life back together with a job, a nice girlfriend (Jessica de Gouw) and plans for a respectable future. SparraNova reacted to Imperial Salesman's post in the thread More Unpopular, or controversial opinions on fiction you hold (Thread 2) with.
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I hadn’t heard of any of the main actors and assumed they were all newcomers until I looked up the movie online and found that Sullivan Stapleton, who plays Pommie, played a similar character in Animal Kingdom. To be fair, said pirates are going to be massively incentivized by the more legitimate human polities to start raiding ME races's space. It was the Summer of the Whistling Pond Reeds, and one fine day Vanessa sat in her favorite spot at the edge of the orchard facing the clear pond, her back against a venerable apple tree whose cool shade had provided sweet summer relief for generations of Redwallers. Although come to think of it it’s probably harder now that there’s so little blue-collar employment available and the scourge of ice is everywhere. And so, of course, there was a feast, and many more after that in the seasons that followed. POLYPS POMACE POMADE POMELO POMMEE POMMEL POMMIE POMPOM POMPON PONCED. The latest example is Cut Snake, a post-prison story about how hard it is – or was back in the 70s – to go straight after doing the crime then the time. FAMINE FAMING FAMISH FAMOUS FAMULI FANDOM FANEGA FANFIC FANGAS FANGED FANION. Maybe it’s something to do with our convict history but there’s a significant prison culture genre in Australian cinema, and I think we do it pretty well.
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