TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Console best movie i've ever seen.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

cynthia_h_49509 This was a charming,romantic film. I really liked the two lead characters,played by William McInness and Justine Clark, and could empathize with them easily.The screenwriter,Sarah Watt, did an excellent job giving us enough information about each secondary character to sustain our interest. The film is more about the choices we make during our life than about death.Even the less sympathetic characters, such as Andy, were portrayed in such a way that you could understand their emotions,even if you couldn't full sympathize with them. The cartooning and artwork added another element to the movie that kept my interest.I would recommend it to fans of independent films who like realistic characters in realistic settings presented in an unusual way.

Fpi I guess it's only a minor spoiler to give away that this is a movie about cancer, and it's just as bleak as that may indicate. As much as I may appreciate depressive, black-and-white, six-hour long films, I'm afraid I found absolutely nothing positive about this movie. I found it overly boring, pointless and predictable. A movie about cancer has to offer something more profound than entertainment, but this film fell short of making any kind of statement a 14-year-old couldn't. Most of it is visually well done, particularly a rainy scene near the end, but it couldn't save the movie from being a total disaster that I very nearly walked out on. I'm happy that other reviewers have found a lot to appreciate, but to me this was a dreadful experience. Approach with caution.

youngadam-4 The film had some likable aspects. Perhaps too many for my taste. It felt as though the writer/director was desperately trying to get us to feel the inner conflict of ALL of its characters. Not once, a few times...but all of the time. This is the job of television, not cinema. The location of the train station was well chosen and I enjoyed Sascha Horler's performance as the pregnant friend. I felt as though Justine Clarke's performance was wan. Her reactions to things felt forced, as though the director were trying to vocalise the themes of the film through her protagonist's expressions. I also can't believe that a director can make the wonderful Daniela Farinacci into an unbelievable presence. I cannot understand the choice of pop music slapped over entire sequences. This is a lazy device, especially where the pop music comes from no place diagetic to the film and/or where the lyrics of the song feel embarrassingly earnest. That said, there is a breezy quality about the film that evokes the Australian heat and local attitude with originality. It does create an atmosphere of heat and sunshine. Especially with the usage of wonderful animation sequences that rescue the film from complete mediocrity, infusing it with passion and hand-crafted charm. I am curious why the dialogue feels so overworked. "Who knows if there's a god? Like some guy sitting there up in the sky telling us what to do" or whatever the line was. Perhaps one of the more embarrassing moments was the friend returning home from cricket with a bunch of flowers to declare to his wife "I'm giving up smoking." An anti-smoking commercial? A TAC ad with some tasteful animation? I had to leave the cinema at the 50 minute mark -- it was all too much.

busta rimes A terrible disappointment. Badly shot (flat lighting from Ray Argall), incredibly obvious set dressing and a pile of dull, ugly locations. The script seems to have been written by a women's co-op with revisions by members of the film-maker's family. Justine Clark tries hard and William McInnes is likable in his Seachange rehash as a snag with a big issue.The Big Train Smash story is off screen and that's part of the problem - there's no defining screen event to propel you into the film. Just a bunch of aimless souls wandering around in torment. The quirky cartoons from Mrs Director scream Art House with a big A. How did this get such good reviews ? It feels like a Film School graduating thesis. If this was one of the best films of 2005 , then Australian film-making is still in the desperate trouble.