AUSTRALIA movie review

hmm...

since this is my first post on my one and only academic blog

I will try my best to reduce the intensity of my sarcasm and make

this blog as innocent as it should be.

As we were reminded by Mr. Derick to go and watch Australia, my friends and I obediently went to GSC and bought tickets for the movie at 8. When I first watched Australia's trailer, I thought it was a story about two Australians being in love and the complications of being together because of a war that occured during that time. Also, a few people said it's actually a movie about Australia's history. (HISTORY?...Please don't let it be boring..) . So, i decided to find out for myself whether I'll be wasting RM9 to watch this movie or not. As it turns out, I was right in some point about the love between two individuals but I didnt see anything at the very least that tells me about Australia's history. Maybe I was too engrossed in the acting or was trying hard to understand the Australian accent and did not notice the small bits of history that was in it.

I'm not going to talk about the plot of the story because I know you have watched it multiple times, Mr. Derick. What I have obtained from watching this movie was that I got to know some parts of the lifestyle lived by aborigins and Australians living in the outback. It's astonishing to know the harshness felt by the 'black people' because of racism. They cannot receive treatment just because they are of a different race and even banned from local pubs. But I had some trouble understanding why the children of mixed races were discriminated. Does the act of racism apply even for children back then? Why do the children was sent to an island accompanied only by a christian priest?

But one thing that captured my attention during the movie was the aboriginal music played. I have been to Australia twice with my family and was familiar with the famous traditional aboriginal musical instrument in Australia called didgeridoo. Dad was thinking about buying one back then but then there will be a problem to bring it back home and later said it was too expensive anyway. The didgeridoo, in my opinion produces a really unique sound despite the fact it looks like a gigantic flute but sounds nothing like it.

One thing that did not appeal to me about the movie are the scenes when Nullah and his ancient grandfather starts talking about magic and spirits and dream songs. The director might be able to pull it off if he reduced this element of mystery in the movie so that the audiences will not chuckle and rolled their eyes everytime the actor said "I am magic man". For me, too much of this aborigins incantating while standing on one leg was a little way over the top. Somehow, I think this movie was also promoting Australia as a very beautiful country with breath-taking natural sceneries. Well, they did a good job in it as i find myself marveled even by the giant rocks in Australia. Overall, this movie is a good production as one can learn a lot about Australia by watching it. Movies that helps people understand the culture in other countries is not that bad, at least I did not need my large caramel popcorn to help me stay awake throughout the movie.