Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

troymilliken A young boy learns what it means to be a man. This is the summary that I gleaned from watching. I believe the focus is to be on the boy the whole movie. He learns from his dad. He learns from the strangers. He learns from his sister. You must keep your focus on the boy, or the movie can be a bore and you can end up mislead. He trusted the strangers, but got betrayed. His trust came back full circle with his dad. He learns from the guy at the end of the movie what it means to be a man. You know he learned what it means to be a man by his last look in the movie. Look at his eyes. He has the eye of the tiger. Fear has been removed. He lived his life in fear, and now he has courage to face anything because he's been through everything.

oxonian-341-365980 It's certainly a grim and disturbing film but it also has a strange beauty. There is no sentiment and no easy solutions. For me, the triumph of this film is the way it captures the desperate struggle to establish a foothold in the Australian landscape. The tension throughout the film is brilliantly achieved and everything is done with subtlety. No-one in this film is truly bad but bad things still happen to them because they are engaged in a life or death struggle. The idealistic father must be representative of many men and women who came to Australia to create a land with none of the old world's injustices. Even at the end of the film the boy still has this dream to cling to and he will rise from the ashes. In short, it's definitely worth watching!

picturewithsound This film was seriously the worst that I had seen all year, my house-mate brought it home from the library as he wants to be a film maker and so is among the only demographic that forces themselves to watch Australian movies. This one danced across the spectrum- from laughable to absurd to simply pointless. It was a very transparent film that clearly showed the screenwriter as a troglodyte-pseudo-intellectual, who reads himself to confidence, then falsely assigns himself the role of preacher, peppering the screenplay with little sweet-nothings that are so trivial and out of place, even the lowly bushmen I imagine the film was made for will be deterred.There are some beautiful one-liners in there that the director really had no excuse to keep from the cutting room floor, namely "What is it little-man? You think you've got what it takes!?" , as well as a character who has a real misunderstanding of Henry Lawson's poetry to share with the world, implying that it was romantic and idealistic, where even the free internet encyclopedia knows better- "Lawson had no romantic illusions about a 'rural idyll'."[7] As Elder continues, his grim view of the outback was far removed from "the romantic idyll of brave horsemen and beautiful scenery depicted in the poetry of 'The Banjo' Paterson".add to that a thick layer of repetitive religious rubbish and just about every poorly-written, poorly-timed interaction that the characters share, and you get a film that was very unfair on the actors who trusted the writer/ director, and tried their hardest.yep, a real piece of work.

bbmanage Screenwriter Andy Cox proves here that you can make an effective film from a very simple but powerful theme. The script is superbly executed with strong dialogue and many plot twists and turns that keep the audience interested. The direction makes the audience feel like they are actually in the film through the use of closeups and hand held shots and the cinematography certainly takes advantage of the Australian outback. The performances from the cast were strong and I was particularly impressed by newcomer Toby Wallace. I also really liked the ending of this movie because it was different from other movies, ie it leaves you guessing what might happen from then on.