Wake In Fright

Ponderous early '70s Austrialian film which apparently all the critics at Cannes loved. I don't get it.

Billed as a "thriller", a schoolteacher gets stranded at an outback mining town, gambles, gets drunk, shoots kangaroos, and fights. And that's about it.

Other than the ambient menace that always seems to suffuse any movie featuring rural Australian locals, I don't know why this is a thriller. I don't even know if it's a story.


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