When Warwick Thornton, award-winning director of Samson and Delilah, voted in the referendum in London, he stole the pen he used — and he's using it to write his next movie.
Warwick Thornton has seen it so many times before. As another generation of Indigenous kids explodes in anger and boredom in his hometown of Alice Springs, the celebrated Australian filmmaker says he has no confidence that emergency curfews will make any difference to rising rates of youth crimes and violence in the Red Centre."It's generational. These kids, their parents are in their 20s and they saw the same crap, their grandparents are in their 30s and they saw the same crap.
Crime rates and violence have been climbing for years, but after a recent outbreak of youth violence, the NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler declared an emergency in Alice Springs, announcing aFor Thornton, the response ignores the neglect, racism and aggression that defines these kids' lives — the issue he represented so painfully and beautifully in his award-winning film, Samson and Delilah.in Melbourne happens here all the time.
"Warwick doesn't trust words. And I think in light there are worlds of and recesses of emotion that he can give birth to that defy language. He's always cutting the words because that often feels to him like trickery — it's hiding something. What he reveals with light, what he brings out of the shadows, I think is really incredibly powerful," Blanchett says."We're still getting the scraps. We asked for Australia to walk with us.
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