A fairly good knowledge of the true story behind Snowtown is a must if you are going to even come close to repeating some of the phrases on the poster.
While I was aware of the story, I guess I wasn't quite as well versed as the movie requires you to be.
It's the story of South Australian serial killer John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) though it is told through the eyes of 16-year-old Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) who became involved through John's relationship with his mother.
I'm not going to delve into too much detail here. The cast is made up of largely unknown actors and it does show a bit.
More of a concern, though, is the disjointed nature of the film. It attempts to build the tension but doesn't have the substance on the screen to match the music that pumps through your mind.
There are also a number of very graphic scenes from disturbing nudity to rape, child exploitation and the gruesome murders that I'm told were watered down quite a bit for the screen compared to the detail in real life.
It's all fine to tell the story from Jamie's perspective, or focusing on him, but he is hardly an accessible character and you get no sense of what he is feeling or going through, for the most part, as he is subject to and witnesses some of the confronting scenes.
I feel there is a really tense and gripping movie in this story but for me it just didn't work. It was not accessible at all and in the first half, when it wasn't bordering on boring, things seemed to happen randomly and for no apparent reason.
Can't go any higher than a 6 out of 10 and I'm disappointed because it was a film that received rave reviews.
While I was aware of the story, I guess I wasn't quite as well versed as the movie requires you to be.
It's the story of South Australian serial killer John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) though it is told through the eyes of 16-year-old Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) who became involved through John's relationship with his mother.
I'm not going to delve into too much detail here. The cast is made up of largely unknown actors and it does show a bit.
More of a concern, though, is the disjointed nature of the film. It attempts to build the tension but doesn't have the substance on the screen to match the music that pumps through your mind.
There are also a number of very graphic scenes from disturbing nudity to rape, child exploitation and the gruesome murders that I'm told were watered down quite a bit for the screen compared to the detail in real life.
It's all fine to tell the story from Jamie's perspective, or focusing on him, but he is hardly an accessible character and you get no sense of what he is feeling or going through, for the most part, as he is subject to and witnesses some of the confronting scenes.
I feel there is a really tense and gripping movie in this story but for me it just didn't work. It was not accessible at all and in the first half, when it wasn't bordering on boring, things seemed to happen randomly and for no apparent reason.
Can't go any higher than a 6 out of 10 and I'm disappointed because it was a film that received rave reviews.
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