Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Moustroll
Good movie but grossly overrated
Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
beattygallery-12793
This movie is about 'being in the moment' & beautifully crafted within that context.Breath is......Life passion curiosity learning yearning fear youth pain love panic risks age knowing. Human life is breath. Breathing. Being alive.Simon Baker has encapsulated the beauty & fear of being alive.
wetwork-17219
I looked forard to this movie and expected to enjoy it asthe latest high quality Aussie drama. I know the area it was filmed in intimately. I really think that if I had not recognised the backdrops I would have enjoyed the movie less and would have given it a score of 1.
The surfing sequences are really well filmed - made me sit and think about how the cameraman must have captured the scene. They created the feelings of doom, bravery and fear.
That said, there was little else good here. Not much reflected believable real life, it suffered from the Australian affliction of "one scene and one prolonged look into the mid-distance says more than a 1000 words". It's all been done before. Even the leading lady (supposedly the smouldering star's wife?) fell into this trap - why did she suddenly want to home shool this teenager. I worried about the fact that the kid was proably below the age of consent.
The story meandered, there were unecessary scenes (the truck crash with the shot cow - what did it relate to?). But the gratuitous plastic bag scenes, as others have mentioned - why, why, why include these. I do see that others would see that it was used to show the wife's loss of enjoyment of living normally. It added a nasty undertone which was superfluous. Where were the women in the movie- they were just food or sex providers. I admit that I do not enjoy Tim Winton's output but even he must have slepwalked through the screenplay.
glee-889-374708
Breath in short bursts, and experience the fear and exhilaration of riding waves bigger than 99% of the population will ever physically try.
mob0103
Great actors, great location go along and support a local film
