![]() ![]() 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. Sparra and pommie fanfiction movie#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. ![]() 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. 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. Apparently in the film, the only social gathering place in that remote section of Australia was a gay cabaret that catered to EVERYONE regardless of sexual predilection.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. Please GET OVER IT! Female impressionists are a fact of life in the World today. Someone complained about the drag performers in the cabaret scene at the beginning of the film. To the DVD distributors Please take note of this fact when releasing similar DVDs in the future. To not make it easier for those that do not reside there to understand what is being said, is a big disservice to them. Not for nothing, but not everyone is familiar with the way Australians in certain regions of that country speak. If the film, at least, had English SUBTITLES, perhaps I would have enjoyed it more the first time I saw it. Normally this would not bother me, but I had a hell of a time trying to understand the Australian slang spoken in the movie. Only problem with this DVD is that it does not have any extra features. Since then I have seen more of his work, which reinforces what I wrote about his acting ability above. Up until I saw this film, I was only familiar with his work in the exciting STRIKE BACK. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Sullivan Stapleton is a first-rate actor. It is so different to anything that I have seen him in before, and I have managed to see quite a lot of his work. For me personally, I think that Sullivan Stapleton was terrific in this role. I was not disappointed at all with this film. I think it is a big shame that this film has not had a cinema release, so I am EXTREMELY happy that I have been able to purchase the DVD. Alex Russell and Jessica De Gouw play the young couple whose lives are turned upside down by Pommie's appearance. Sullivan Stapleton creates a very tense atmosphere whenever he appears on screen, so much so, that he puts you on edge watching him. But I would describe this film as a love story. I don't want to say too much about the plot as it may give the twist away. ![]() Sparra and Paula are a young couple that are making plans for the future, when an old friend of Sparra's turns up. There are three main characters in the film, Sparra, Paula and Pommie. This film is set in 1974, a time that I am at an age to remember vividly - and it is set in Australia. I had seen the various trailers for this film on Youtube and was very excited to see Sullivan Stapleton in a very different role to the one I was most familiar with him in 'Strike Back'. ![]()
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