Australia seems to be blessed for producing beautiful films about real life situations fraught with meaning and mystery. The movies “Puberty Blues” and “The Year my voice broke” are of no exception. The landscape seems so realistic on the screen, and the sense of Australia's isolation does as well.
The subject matter and thematic thrust of Puberty Blues is the girls’ inceptive desperation to hook into the “in-crowd”, but with a strong feminist kick. Sixteen-year-olds, Debbie Vickers and Sue Knight are fraught under the heavy brand of ‘sexism’ allocated out by the boys that they kick around with, and the dual oppression of school and parents. From the hilarious, slang-packed dialogue and rich, honest characterization, through to its obvious savagery and uncompromising take on the darker phases of teenage life, Puberty Blues is a straight up Aussie classic film. The notion of setting of a movie is a complex one, but …show more content…
Written and directed by John Duigan with spectacular honesty and sensitivity, the movie features a fifteen-year-old Danny, who experiences a stereotypical coming of age when he falls heavily in love for his childhood friend, an independent and quickly maturing Freya, who has a bundle of dark secrets up her sleeves. When the wild, fascinating and constantly-in-trouble Trevor captures Freya’s heart and ends up getting her pregnant, Danny is strained into a situation that he’s not emotionally compatible to deal with.
The landscape of the movie portrays a small town in New South Wales in 1962.The town looks typical, or at least shares similarity with many Australian films. It is also strangely familiar because it bears resemblance movie sets for old westerns, with scruffy little wooden houses set along a dusty main street and magnificent hills and wide plains in the background. This ghost-town ambience infuses the film, so it makes perfect sense that a haunted house sits in outcast area
The subject matter and thematic thrust of Puberty Blues is the girls’ inceptive desperation to hook into the “in-crowd”, but with a strong feminist kick. Sixteen-year-olds, Debbie Vickers and Sue Knight are fraught under the heavy brand of ‘sexism’ allocated out by the boys that they kick around with, and the dual oppression of school and parents. From the hilarious, slang-packed dialogue and rich, honest characterization, through to its obvious savagery and uncompromising take on the darker phases of teenage life, Puberty Blues is a straight up Aussie classic film. The notion of setting of a movie is a complex one, but …show more content…
Written and directed by John Duigan with spectacular honesty and sensitivity, the movie features a fifteen-year-old Danny, who experiences a stereotypical coming of age when he falls heavily in love for his childhood friend, an independent and quickly maturing Freya, who has a bundle of dark secrets up her sleeves. When the wild, fascinating and constantly-in-trouble Trevor captures Freya’s heart and ends up getting her pregnant, Danny is strained into a situation that he’s not emotionally compatible to deal with.
The landscape of the movie portrays a small town in New South Wales in 1962.The town looks typical, or at least shares similarity with many Australian films. It is also strangely familiar because it bears resemblance movie sets for old westerns, with scruffy little wooden houses set along a dusty main street and magnificent hills and wide plains in the background. This ghost-town ambience infuses the film, so it makes perfect sense that a haunted house sits in outcast area