| Reference Type |
Nation Review
journal
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| Title |
Forward to a Fairly Liberated Future |
| Author(s) | Bob Ellis |
| Volume |
4 |
| Page Number |
1247 |
| Comments |
Ellis has written a highly provocative review, which ironically takes a stab at the both the hybridisation of the Australian film industry, which bowed down to the influence of foreign investment, and also its insularity in a closed, tried-and-true thematic outlook.
Throughout the review, Ellis condemns the Australian film industry's trend toward "carnal shallowness" which he claims was generated by films such as 'Barry McKenzie' and accelerated by' Alvin Purple'. |
| Synopsis |
In his review, Bob Ellis rejoices in what he considers the fact that "The Cars that Ate Paris... is the first proof that a purely Australian product can hold its own with its native audiences, without compromise, without foreign contamination, and without shame"(1247)
From this, Ellis goes on to write that "The conception of the film is brilliant: a not too eccentric miniaturisation of Australian civilisation, its authoritarianism, its bureaucracies, its large hypocrisies and its gigantic obsession with cars, an obsession which literally eats the civilisation alive at the end"(1247). |
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