Jones and Kurzel discuss Nitram’s cultural and emotional specificity, and why some Australians wish that it had never been made.
Implicit in its bleak but sympathetic portrait of a disturbed, shunned young man is that sometimes it takes a village to make a monster.
In more than one sense, Justin Kurzel’s aggressively strange film queers the myth of the oft-lionized Ned Kelly.
It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.
Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is most compelling when advancing its familiar plot through associative editing.
Whatever one ends up thinking about The Snowtown Murders, it’s difficult to deny that it’s a deeply impressive work.
Consider this the “feel bad” dispatch of AFI Fest 2011.