This film looked vaguely promising, but at the end of the day, it didn't really say much- and the viewer is left feeling rather empty and slightly bewildered.
Supposedly set in 1960's Adelaide (it was actually filmed there), there are no specific Adelaide references in it. I looked hard for them, because I grew up in Adelaide during that era; but there aren't any- it could be any Australian city. The shots of brand new houses springing out of empty paddocks did reflect the expanding Adelaide outer suburbia of the time: but the outer fringes of every major Australian city was like that then.
I think the only hint of a local reference point is the Ernie Sigley-esque local TV personality, played by Simon Burke. But the director doesn't really take this character anywhere, and his presence seems fairly pointless.
The attractive and likable actress Pia Miranda is wasted in a silly role as an outer suburban girl who gets into Uni and is training to be a school teacher. However, she decides that she would prefer to be a photographer- not a "normal" photographer, but a self-indulgent "arty" photographer. She throws her school teaching career away in order to make this futile gesture towards sixties modernism.
We are supposed to feel some sort of empathy towards the main characters who are "trapped" in dreary suburbia and trying to move their lives in a more meaningful direction. But one of them already has an interesting job at a TV studio, and the other two are tertiary educated school teachers- so surely they have already achieved their escape? The sixties in Adelaide were not that grim and claustrophobic: the City and Uni were only a 25 minute bus ride away for most people...
Supposedly set in 1960's Adelaide (it was actually filmed there), there are no specific Adelaide references in it. I looked hard for them, because I grew up in Adelaide during that era; but there aren't any- it could be any Australian city. The shots of brand new houses springing out of empty paddocks did reflect the expanding Adelaide outer suburbia of the time: but the outer fringes of every major Australian city was like that then.
I think the only hint of a local reference point is the Ernie Sigley-esque local TV personality, played by Simon Burke. But the director doesn't really take this character anywhere, and his presence seems fairly pointless.
The attractive and likable actress Pia Miranda is wasted in a silly role as an outer suburban girl who gets into Uni and is training to be a school teacher. However, she decides that she would prefer to be a photographer- not a "normal" photographer, but a self-indulgent "arty" photographer. She throws her school teaching career away in order to make this futile gesture towards sixties modernism.
We are supposed to feel some sort of empathy towards the main characters who are "trapped" in dreary suburbia and trying to move their lives in a more meaningful direction. But one of them already has an interesting job at a TV studio, and the other two are tertiary educated school teachers- so surely they have already achieved their escape? The sixties in Adelaide were not that grim and claustrophobic: the City and Uni were only a 25 minute bus ride away for most people...