The striking visuals are exactly what we would expect of an artist making her first motion picture, which stars Simon Baker and Yael Stone.
, would gather a swag of rave responses. Every new Australian film, no matter how bleak, depressing or sadistic, finds plenty of people willing to sing its praises. Too often this compulsive need to support the local product only helps perpetuate the artistic mediocrity that has settled on the local industry over the past two decades.
The striking visuals are exactly what we would expect of an artist making her first motion picture. It’s the narrative that grates: like a cupboard in which the drawers and doors don’t quite fit. More precisely, there’s an awkward disjunction between the playful inventiveness Barton has lavished on the props, and the extended investigation of childhood trauma, which is the theme of the story.
Barton and her co-scriptwriter, Huna Amweero, don’t lack moral courage; they lack the narrative skills that make a movie more than a series of disjointed episodes devoted to a single, pervasive theme. Blaze’s trauma might be realistically portrayed, but it’s heavy going for the viewer who has no choice except to tag along for the ride. The procession is interrupted by the fantasy sequences in which Blaze retreats to the sanctuary of her bedroom and lets her imagination run wild.
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