Set in 1929 in the sparsely-populated outback of the Northern Territory and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the ...
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete. The spectre of mob injustice is never far away.But the judge persists, and a witness’s comment on the murder is shot down, as they don’t know yet that a murder has been committed, just that Sam has killed a man.In a beautiful landscape scarred by death, dialogue is pretty sparse, with Sam particularly reticent – yet Hamilton Morris’s performance (his first in a professional role) is extraordinarily affecting.Lizzie has even fewer words, but her refusal to describe her assault in front of the town at Sam’s hearing, her head bowed and her long curly hair hiding her, is devastating. Was this review helpful to you? Slumped on the ground, Harry’s blood spurts and oozes out of his wound as his life ebbs away into the stones and sand.It may be a clear cut case of self-defence but in a racist society that doesn’t stand for much; Sam knows that after killing a white man he and Lizzie must run. Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. Pitching up at Fred’s for the first time, he calls Sam “black stock”. But after Philomac (played by twins Tremayne and Trevon Doolan) escapes the chains Harry has used to restrain him, Harry returns to Fred’s in a rage.Harry is beset by PTSD. Meanwhile Harry has moved on to ask near neighbour Kennedy for help.Kennedy (Thomas M. Wright) another thuggish racist with the same dark hair and bushy beard as Harry, sends Philomac, a young boy who may or may not be his son. Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Sweet Country Discussion *Spoilers* spoiler. Kennedy – the farmer who has long belittled, assaulted and screamed at both Archie and Philomac – at lasts finds some semblance of fellow-feeling, though how long it will last is a moot point.You mentioned in your review that you think that Kennedy had showed some remorse after the trial. It actually has a fine story, uplifting and ultimately tragic, and some decent movie action and acting which make it a good film by anybody's standards. Sweet Country is a scorching movie in every sense, with extraordinary performances driving this story about racism in 1920s Australia, where ingrained prejudices combined with a misplaced sense of injustice lead to an innocent man fighting for his life. By Jonathan Romney on April 5, 2018 Warwick Thornton’s Australian period drama Sweet Country ends with a character asking the rhetorical question, “What chance has the country got?” before the film closes on the image of an Aboriginal teenage boy. The cinematography is superb and at times resembles an Albert Namatjira landscape, which is understandable but it takes great skill to capture the light and timelessness of the outback landscape, it should wow overseas audiences . Their bigotry is never excused, but everyone is more than just a racist or misogynist, because racism and sexism is woven into the fabric of their society, a society these people walk through every day.I’m sure Harry March was racist before his horrific experiences of war, but his trauma adds another layer of loneliness and paranoia, which drives his desperation.There’s a realistic lack of redemption with only one character changing, the catalyst for which seems to be the long slow drip of Fred Smith’s religious goodness into a parched land rather than because of what has happened to Sam.
As he charges up to Fred’s house he shouts out to his long-gone soldiers: “Shut up, I’m in charge of this regiment!” and “Fred Smith, you harbouring a prisoner?” He fires shots into the house where Sam and his wife are cowering, and Sam fires back in self-defence. a list of 30 titles )The judge is a proper man of the law, unswayed by the racism of the drunk locals. Director Warwick Thornton who also made Samson and Delilah has excelled again with this Aussie period Western set in 1929 in the Northern Territory. Anyways, I liked the film overall, but the second half fell somewhat flat for me. Australia's acclaimed indigenous filmmaker retreats to a remote beach where he spends several months with no power and only the land to provide sustenance. (Town rather over-glamorises it; Henry is really just a few wooden buildings nestling in the dunes. An urban teenager journeys to Montana to hunt big game with his estranged father. He’s approached by Harry March, a young rancher just back from the Boer war. Use the HTML below. Sam, un fermier aborigène, est contraint de fuir avec sa femme après avoir abattu, en état de légitime défense, le fils du propriétaire blanc de la station. Submitted by black and white Australians, Thornton narrowed down more than 150 stories ... Sweet Country Trailer #1 (2018) | Movieclips Indie - YouTube About halfway through the movie, the title Sweet Country begins to make sense. Fred (Sam Neill) has to put him right: “Oh no mate we’re all equal in the eyes of the Lord”.As Sam works, Harry assaults Lizzie, an action all the more horrific for being unseen, after he has walked with deliberation round his room closing all the shutters. I’m surprised by this, having just watched the movie, I thought that Kennedy was the sniper. With Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill. “I wanted the other one but you’ll do,” he says in the darkness, followed by a scream.Sent back to Fred’s, Sam asks his boss to take young Lucy with him on his upcoming three-week trip into town, a last ditch attempt to keep the young woman safe. ... Soon a motley assortment of men – Fred, Sergeant Fletcher (Bryan Brown), his assistant Dewey, and Archie (Gibson John) – are on their trail.Fletcher is one of those men who will always side with people like him, whether police officers or former soldiers and his misplaced rage at Sam is horrifying.But eventually everyone has to stop running through the harsh landscape, and the scene is set for Sam’s hearing.
When Australian cinema is good ,its usually really good and this one can hold its head high in any cinema in the world. Lapping water, buzzing insects, blood pulsating out of that fatal neck wound.In Thornton’s hands, the racists are also still complex, rounded individuals.
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete. The spectre of mob injustice is never far away.But the judge persists, and a witness’s comment on the murder is shot down, as they don’t know yet that a murder has been committed, just that Sam has killed a man.In a beautiful landscape scarred by death, dialogue is pretty sparse, with Sam particularly reticent – yet Hamilton Morris’s performance (his first in a professional role) is extraordinarily affecting.Lizzie has even fewer words, but her refusal to describe her assault in front of the town at Sam’s hearing, her head bowed and her long curly hair hiding her, is devastating. Was this review helpful to you? Slumped on the ground, Harry’s blood spurts and oozes out of his wound as his life ebbs away into the stones and sand.It may be a clear cut case of self-defence but in a racist society that doesn’t stand for much; Sam knows that after killing a white man he and Lizzie must run. Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. Pitching up at Fred’s for the first time, he calls Sam “black stock”. But after Philomac (played by twins Tremayne and Trevon Doolan) escapes the chains Harry has used to restrain him, Harry returns to Fred’s in a rage.Harry is beset by PTSD. Meanwhile Harry has moved on to ask near neighbour Kennedy for help.Kennedy (Thomas M. Wright) another thuggish racist with the same dark hair and bushy beard as Harry, sends Philomac, a young boy who may or may not be his son. Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Sweet Country Discussion *Spoilers* spoiler. Kennedy – the farmer who has long belittled, assaulted and screamed at both Archie and Philomac – at lasts finds some semblance of fellow-feeling, though how long it will last is a moot point.You mentioned in your review that you think that Kennedy had showed some remorse after the trial. It actually has a fine story, uplifting and ultimately tragic, and some decent movie action and acting which make it a good film by anybody's standards. Sweet Country is a scorching movie in every sense, with extraordinary performances driving this story about racism in 1920s Australia, where ingrained prejudices combined with a misplaced sense of injustice lead to an innocent man fighting for his life. By Jonathan Romney on April 5, 2018 Warwick Thornton’s Australian period drama Sweet Country ends with a character asking the rhetorical question, “What chance has the country got?” before the film closes on the image of an Aboriginal teenage boy. The cinematography is superb and at times resembles an Albert Namatjira landscape, which is understandable but it takes great skill to capture the light and timelessness of the outback landscape, it should wow overseas audiences . Their bigotry is never excused, but everyone is more than just a racist or misogynist, because racism and sexism is woven into the fabric of their society, a society these people walk through every day.I’m sure Harry March was racist before his horrific experiences of war, but his trauma adds another layer of loneliness and paranoia, which drives his desperation.There’s a realistic lack of redemption with only one character changing, the catalyst for which seems to be the long slow drip of Fred Smith’s religious goodness into a parched land rather than because of what has happened to Sam.
As he charges up to Fred’s house he shouts out to his long-gone soldiers: “Shut up, I’m in charge of this regiment!” and “Fred Smith, you harbouring a prisoner?” He fires shots into the house where Sam and his wife are cowering, and Sam fires back in self-defence. a list of 30 titles )The judge is a proper man of the law, unswayed by the racism of the drunk locals. Director Warwick Thornton who also made Samson and Delilah has excelled again with this Aussie period Western set in 1929 in the Northern Territory. Anyways, I liked the film overall, but the second half fell somewhat flat for me. Australia's acclaimed indigenous filmmaker retreats to a remote beach where he spends several months with no power and only the land to provide sustenance. (Town rather over-glamorises it; Henry is really just a few wooden buildings nestling in the dunes. An urban teenager journeys to Montana to hunt big game with his estranged father. He’s approached by Harry March, a young rancher just back from the Boer war. Use the HTML below. Sam, un fermier aborigène, est contraint de fuir avec sa femme après avoir abattu, en état de légitime défense, le fils du propriétaire blanc de la station. Submitted by black and white Australians, Thornton narrowed down more than 150 stories ... Sweet Country Trailer #1 (2018) | Movieclips Indie - YouTube About halfway through the movie, the title Sweet Country begins to make sense. Fred (Sam Neill) has to put him right: “Oh no mate we’re all equal in the eyes of the Lord”.As Sam works, Harry assaults Lizzie, an action all the more horrific for being unseen, after he has walked with deliberation round his room closing all the shutters. I’m surprised by this, having just watched the movie, I thought that Kennedy was the sniper. With Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill. “I wanted the other one but you’ll do,” he says in the darkness, followed by a scream.Sent back to Fred’s, Sam asks his boss to take young Lucy with him on his upcoming three-week trip into town, a last ditch attempt to keep the young woman safe. ... Soon a motley assortment of men – Fred, Sergeant Fletcher (Bryan Brown), his assistant Dewey, and Archie (Gibson John) – are on their trail.Fletcher is one of those men who will always side with people like him, whether police officers or former soldiers and his misplaced rage at Sam is horrifying.But eventually everyone has to stop running through the harsh landscape, and the scene is set for Sam’s hearing.
When Australian cinema is good ,its usually really good and this one can hold its head high in any cinema in the world. Lapping water, buzzing insects, blood pulsating out of that fatal neck wound.In Thornton’s hands, the racists are also still complex, rounded individuals.